Exclusive: Documents Detail Meetings Of Russians With Treasury, Federal Reserve

[jpak]

https://www.npr.org/2019/05/10/721763041/exclusive-documents-detail-meetings-of-russians-with-treasury-federal-reserve

Newly obtained documents describe what happened when two now-infamous Russians took their outreach campaign into the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve in 2015.

Alexander Torshin, then a Russian central banker, brought his protégée, Maria Butina, for meetings with senior officials and even sought another with the then-chair of the Fed, the documents confirm.

Agency officials described what happened before and since in internal materials obtained by NPR under the Freedom of Information Act. The fact of the meetings has previously been reported, but their contents have not been fully described until now.

Torshin has since been sanctioned by the Treasury Department and cannot return to the United States.

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[empedocles]

1. 'Diplomacy' . . . war prep by other means.

[duforsure]

2. I've wondered

Was Butina's asking trump a question known by trump , and all prearranged for him? Was this all planned out for trump and putin to use for PR for him and against President Obama? It makes me wonder if she knew all about it too.

[Wounded Bear]

3. Yeah, I'm not buying her innocent little girl act...

She's a honey pot, plain and simple. Oldest trick in the spy manual.