TV producer for Russian oligarch charged with violating Crimea-related sanctions

[EleanorR]

Where is Manafort these days? I hope the Feds are keeping a close eye on him.

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[orwell]

1. How deep is this cesspool?

...never mind.

If Komrade Hannity is involved it is deeper than the Mariana Trench...

[Thomas Hurt]

2. Amazing isn't how similar the American christofascists and the Eastern

European fascists work...same MO, same grifters and scumbags, similar propaganda operations.

This must be fn Gorka and Bannon's work.

[EleanorR]

4. Indeed. Here's a 2018 Salon article with more info.

One of Sean Hannity’s former directors — who claims an instrumental role in developing Fox News — moved to Russia to help a sanctioned oligarch start up a right-wing TV network.

Jack Hanick, whose now-deleted LinkedIn profile shows he began working for Fox News three months before its first broadcast aired in October 1996, left the network in August 2011 and helped launch the Orthodox Christian network Tsargrad TV three year later.

The religious network’s founder, Konstantin Malofeev, is a Kremlin-connected oligarch who’s been under U.S. sanctions since 2014 for financing pro-Russian separatist rebels in Crimea.

“Throughout the Ukraine crisis, Mr. Malofeev, [now 43], has emerged as a key figure linking the pro-Russia forces on the ground in Ukraine and the political establishment in Moscow,” reported the Financial Times.

Despite the sanctions, Hannity’s former director Hanick — who has since been accepted into the Russian Orthodox Church with his family — to help launch the network.

https://www.salon.com/2018/04/19/a-former-director-for-sean-hannity-left-fox-news-to-build-a-pro-kremlin-propaganda-network-in-russia_partner/

[JoanofArgh]

3. Hanick also claims he was a founder of Fox News.