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CaliforniaPeggy

(149,534 posts)
Thu Jul 19, 2018, 01:55 PM Jul 2018

I 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.

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I found this on Facebook and it's excellent: (Original Post) CaliforniaPeggy Jul 2018 OP
link pls ? dweller Jul 2018 #1
The links are in post #7. They are details about this OP. n/t CaliforniaPeggy Jul 2018 #10
Didn't the Maginitsky Act Pass 98-2* Stallion Jul 2018 #2
Peggy, can you copy the links that follow the commentary? nolabear Jul 2018 #3
I will try... CaliforniaPeggy Jul 2018 #6
I've read Bowder's Book Horizens Jul 2018 #4
Bill Browder's book JeaneRaye Jul 2018 #11
Thanks malaise Jul 2018 #5
The links: CaliforniaPeggy Jul 2018 #7
Thank you! ❤️ nolabear Jul 2018 #8
I did check them, and they all worked. They should for you too. CaliforniaPeggy Jul 2018 #9
THIS. This is what Putin wants. The Magnitsky Act gone. THIS is it. The payola. He's moving fast.... Honeycombe8 Jul 2018 #12
Can you imagine the thunderous crowd in DC Duppers Jul 2018 #13

Stallion

(6,473 posts)
2. Didn't the Maginitsky Act Pass 98-2*
Thu Jul 19, 2018, 02:19 PM
Jul 2018

might as well round-up all the Senators too

Actual Vote:
House: 365–43
Senate 92–4

nolabear

(41,938 posts)
3. Peggy, can you copy the links that follow the commentary?
Thu Jul 19, 2018, 02:28 PM
Jul 2018

They’re excellent as well. I will if I can but might not be able to.

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
12. THIS. This is what Putin wants. The Magnitsky Act gone. THIS is it. The payola. He's moving fast....
Thu Jul 19, 2018, 04:29 PM
Jul 2018

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)
13. Can you imagine the thunderous crowd in DC
Thu Jul 19, 2018, 04:39 PM
Jul 2018

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



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