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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI found this on Facebook and it's excellent:
Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky exposed "a $230 million fraud against the Russian treasury carried out by a criminal organization operating in collusion with corrupt Russian officials," according to The Daily Beast. For his trouble, Magnitsky was tortured and beaten to death in a Russian prison and then posthumously tried and convicted of the very crime he had uncovered. "Brazen," thy name is Vlad.
One of Magnitsky's clients, financier Bill Browder, wanted justice for Magnitsky, so he pushed for what became the Magnitsky Act, a series of sanctions against Russian oligarchs that had real teeth, and were later compounded by similar sanctions from other nations. For local reference, the infamous "Trump Tower" meeting was about getting those sanctions lifted after Trump won.
Russia wants Browder's ass, along with the ass of anyone who helped him get the Magnitsky Act passed into law. Remember during that preposterous Helsinki presser when Trump said Putin had made "an incredible offer"? Putin would let Mueller's people indirectly question agents involved in the election meddling, and in return, Trump would allow Putin to get his hands on the people involved in the creation of the Magnitsky Act.
That list includes Jonathan M. Winer, former U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state for international law enforcement; former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul; David Kramer, formerly the president of Freedom House and assistant secretary of state for human rights under George W. Bush; and senior Senate human-rights staffer Kyle Parker.
Huckabee Sanders publicly said they are considering accepting the offer ... to ship a former US ambassador and several other US citizens/former officials to Russia and the tender mercies of Vladimir Putin.
dweller
(23,617 posts)would like to share
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,534 posts)Stallion
(6,473 posts)might as well round-up all the Senators too
Actual Vote:
House: 36543
Senate 924
nolabear
(41,938 posts)Theyre excellent as well. I will if I can but might not be able to.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,534 posts)Horizens
(637 posts)and this is an excellent synopsis of what's going on.
JeaneRaye
(402 posts)Yes, so did I.
malaise
(268,725 posts)K&R
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,534 posts)https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/senate-to-vote-on-urging-trump-to-reject-putins-request-to-interrogate-mcfaul/2018/07/19/db133978-8b71-11e8-8aea-86e88ae760d8_story.html?utm_term=.1c0ffe33f937
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a22442974/trump-putin-mich
nolabear
(41,938 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,534 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Putin is now moving fast on it. They're moving in the open, since secrecy is no longer an option. Trying to play it as normal.
What does Putin want, specifically, from Trump? THIS. Because the Act prevents him from laundering and moving his illgotten gains throughout the world and into the U S freely.
Follow the money.
Duppers
(28,117 posts)If Trump or the press were to announce that he's doing that? I'd be there for sure.
Or what if he has some brownshirts kidnapping these people one night?
I despise the fact that these kind of scenarios are even considered. We are in the twilight zone.
See:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210896060