Trump lifts Global Magnitsky Sanctions against Dan Gertler 5 days before leaving office
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Bill Browder
@Billbrowder
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Jan 24, 2021
BREAKING: Departing Trump lifts Global Magnitsky Sanctions against Dan Gertler 5 days before leaving office. These sanctions were one of the big success stories of the Global Magnitsky Act and lifting them a big setback for anti corruption campaigners.
MAGNITSKY ACT: Departing Trump lifted US sanctions against controversial Israeli businessman Dan...
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Bill Browder
@Billbrowder
Here is the actual US Treasury form lifting Global Magnitsky Sanctions against Dan Gertler
However, this is different than a presidential pardon. It can easily be reapplied by the Biden administration as easily as the dozens of executive orders issued in the last couple of days
And guess who Dan Gertlers lawyer was? None other than Alan Dershowitz
Joe
@DempseyTwo
Of course, he did. Any removal of these sanctions is not a surprise. They were being lobbied for magnitsky relief from every direction since June 2016.
Pg 343 Youve seen me mention Magnitsky, in this thread and others. Always read footnotes. This is context for the trump tower meeting. In prior pgs, there are mentions of Rohrabacher (House Min Leader McCarthy said he thinks he works for the Russians) and there are [REDACTIONS]