Russian lawyer

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BY JOHN SOLOMON AND JONATHAN EASLEY - 07/12/17 09:23 PM EDT

... five days after meeting in June 2016 at Trump Tower .. Moscow attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya showed up in Washington in the front row of a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Russia policy ...

She also helped arrange an event at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. where pro-Russian supporters showed a movie that challenged the .. Magnitysky Act ...

At least five congressional staffers and State Department officials attended that movie showing, according to a Foreign Agent Registration Act complaint filed with the Justice Department about Veselnitskaya’s efforts.

... Veselnitskaya also attended a dinner with the chairman of the House subcommittee overseeing Russia policy, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) and roughly 20 other guests at a dinner club frequented by Republicans ...

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/341788-exclusive-doj-let-russian-lawyer-into-us-before-she-met-with-trump

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1. Russian at Trump Tower

July 12, 2017, 9:55 pm
July 12, 2017, 5:02 am
David Kocieniewski
Greg Farrell
Peter Robison
Bob Van Voris

... In March of this year, U.S. Senator Charles Grassley, without naming Veselnitskaya, called for people involved in pushing back against the Magnitsky Act to register as agents.

Veselnitskaya has never registered as a foreign agent or lobbyist, according to Justice Department registrations dating to the 1940s and Senate Office of Public Records documents dating to 1999.

https://www.bloombergquint.com/markets/2017/07/13/all-you-need-to-know-going-into-trade-this-thursday

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2. Rohrabacher is Knee Deep in this Russian Scandal!

Traitor extraordinaire!

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3. Quashed Money Laundering Case In Return for Dirt?

KEVIN DRUM
JUL. 12, 2017 6:23 PM

... The Magnitsky Act is a set of sanctions designed to punish Russia for arresting and killing Sergei Magnitsky, a Moscow lawyer who had uncovered a state-sanctioned scheme of tax cheating that implicated police, the judiciary, tax officials, bankers, and the Russian mafia. Over $200 million was involved, much of it laundered through overseas companies, including several who used the money to buy up high-end Manhattan real esate. One of these companies was Prevezon.

Natalia Veselnitskaya was one of Prevezon’s lawyers. Preet Bharara was the US Attorney prosecuting the case, which was not going well for Prevezon. However, Donald Trump fired Bharara in March, and two months later the Justice Department surprised everyone by abruptly settling the case for $6 million. The settlement was so meager that one of Prevezon’s US attorneys said it was “almost an admission that they shouldn’t have brought the case.” Veselnitskaya herself crowed that it was “almost an apology from the government” ...

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/07/democrats-want-to-know-if-trump-quashed-a-russian-money-laundering-case-in-return-for-dirt-on-hillary-clinton/

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4. Remember?

“There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump,” McCarthy (R-Calif.) said"