Reminder: Natalia Veselnitskaya is a confirmed russian agent, not an independent lawyer.

[DetlefK]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/emails-lawyer-who-met-trump-jr-tied-to-russian-officials/2018/07/26/4c5e8900-911e-11e8-ae59-01880eac5f1d_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.573d7947037b

If you work side-by-side with senior staff of the russian Interior Ministry, then you are more than an ordinary lawyer.

If you draft a letter for a russian Attorney-General to arrange international law-enforcement cooperation with a foreign diplomat, then you are more than an ordinary lawyer.

If you, at age 28, can afford to buy 7-figure real-estate on a 5-figure salary, then you are more than an ordinary lawyer.

https://edition.cnn.com/2017/09/16/opinions/curious-rise-of-russian-lawyer-veselnitskaya-opinion-weiss/index.html

But here's the curious thing: In August 2003, before the lion's share of that $53,645 was earned, the Russian land registry shows that Veselnitskaya was somehow able to buy two large plots of land in an elite residential community in the Moscow suburbs -- properties that cannot have been sold for less than $500,000 apiece at the time, according to two Russian brokers with extensive experience selling in that area.

Veselnitskaya would not respond to multiple interview requests for this story to confirm her employment details and her income.

How a 28-year-old provincial attorney raking in, at most, five figures was able to afford seven figures worth of property is a very Russian mystery, no less intriguing than her extraordinary and unlikely journey to the meeting at the center of the far-reaching investigation into how Moscow might have had a hand in influencing the American presidential election.