NPR All Things Considered - powerful interview with Bill Browder re Junior, Russia, the woman lawyer

[NRaleighLiberal]

http://www.npr.org/2017/07/13/537082081/businessman-bill-browder-details-dealings-with-russian-laywer-tied-to-trump

I think the audio will be up later at the link - those who haven't heard it yet (west of me), please listen. Browder put Natalia Veselnitskaya in thick with Putin.

[octoberlib]

1. I highly recommend Browder's book Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Mans

Fight For Justice


A New York Times bestseller: “[Red Notice] does for investing in Russia and the former Soviet Union what Liar’s Poker did for our understanding of Salomon Brothers, Wall Street, and the mortgage-backed securities business in the 1980s. Browder’s business saga meshes well with the story of corruption and murder in Vladimir Putin’s Russia, making Red Notice an early candidate for any list of the year’s best books” (Fortune).

This is a story about an accidental activist. Bill Browder started out his adult life as the Wall Street maverick whose instincts led him to Russia just after the breakup of the Soviet Union, where he made his fortune.

Along the way he exposed corruption, and when he did, he barely escaped with his life. His Russian lawyer wasn’t so lucky: he ended up in jail, where he was tortured to death. That changed Browder forever. He saw the murderous heart of the Putin regime and has spent the last half decade on a campaign to expose it. Because of that, he became Putin’s number one enemy, especially after Browder succeeded in having a law passed in the United States that punishes a list of Russians implicated in the lawyer’s murder. Putin famously retaliated with a law that bans Americans from adopting Russian orphans.

A financial caper, a crime thriller, and a political crusade, Red Notice is the story of one man taking on overpowering odds to change the world, and also the story of how, without intending to, he found meaning in his life.
https://www.amazon.com/Red-Notice-Finance-Murder-Justice-ebook/dp/B00LD1ORX6/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1499979716&sr=1-1&keywords=red+notice

[NRaleighLiberal]

7. yes, I went and took a look at that when I got home.

thanks for the rec of that book.

[jberryhill]

2. What is a "woman lawyer"?

Not having anything to do with this piece, or with your use of the phrase in particular, that always strikes me as an odd phrase.

Yes, she is a lawyer and, yes, she is a woman. So, sure, it is a true statement.

But why do I never hear the phrase "man lawyer"?

I don't keep count, but in my day to day experience as a lawyer, it subjectively seems that I'm just about as likely to be dealing with a "man lawyer" as a "woman lawyer", although the statistics indicate the ration to be around 64/36. I'd guess by age, that's a lot lower at the younger end, since JD's are pretty much 50/50 now. But there is certainly nothing unusual about a "woman lawyer".

In nursing, it's a lot more skewed by gender, so maybe "male nurse" has a significance with the subtext of "unusual" that "woman lawyer" doesn't.

Maybe it's also an age thing, from not long ago when women were practically shut out of the profession. I'm in my fifties and "woman lawyer" always has struck me as someone hitting the wrong key on the piano.

[NRaleighLiberal]

3. a few things - I had only a few min, can't fit her entire name in the title (I did in the body),

and it is the Russian woman lawyer who is at the center of this.

But I can see your point as well.

sorry - I often type before I think

[Leghorn21]

5. Well hey, these Russian names - and *I love Russia!!!* - but these names are a mofo for moi!!

So far in this trumputin treachery, I can only remember, like, Felix Sater....but when we get to the agarovlovs and rybelovajals, oh cheeze, if I don't copy/paste, I got issues...oi!

[jberryhill]

8. It wasn't really directed at you

It's a common enough phrase. It just strikes me as odd.

[Leghorn21]

4. Don't be mad at me, jb, but "man lawyer" cracked me up!! (I do think I got the point of your

excellent post...but just saying out loud, "Well, gotta go, I have an appointment with my man lawyer" makes me chuckle!)

[NRaleighLiberal]

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