The Office investigated another Russia-related contact with Papadopoulos. The Office was not fully able to explore the contact because the individual at issue-Sergei Millian...
Millian was in trouble because of the Steele Dossier, not anything the Special Counsel wanted. The Special Counsel never had contact with Millian. I think that is important because the "Gas-Lighting" Trump always claims the investigation is based on the Steele Dossier. That is a lie. Just because the Special Counsel wanted to meet with him and interview him, it didn't happen.
February 7, 2019
By Brett Samuels
A Russian businessman (click here) who was an unwitting source for the so-called Steele dossier developed a relationship with Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos in 2016, The Washington Post reported Thursday.
According to the newspaper, Sergei Millian spent months establishing a relationship with Papadopoulos and offered him a consulting contract to work for an unidentified Russian at the same time he was working for then-presidential candidate Donald Trump. Papadopoulos said he turned down the offer.
The Post noted that the extent of Millian's involvement in Trump's orbit remains unclear, but that his ties to Papadopoulos were not previously known.
Millian previously claimed in a 2016 interview that he met with former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen and signed a deal to sell Trump-branded real estate units in Florida. Cohen has denied those assertions, calling Millian a fraud with no legitimate connection to Trump, the Post reported....
...remained out of the country since the inception of our investigation and declined to meet with members of the Office despite our repeated efforts to obtain an interview. Papadopoulos first connected with Millian via Linkedln on July 15, 2016, shortly after Papadopoulos had attended the TAG Summit with Clovis.500 Millian, an American citizen who is a native of Belarus (click here), introduced himself "as president of [the] New York-based Russian American Chamber of Commerce,"...
Russian American Chamber of Commerce (click here)
The Chamber endeavors to strengthen the community and intercultural ties between Russian and American businesses through cooperation, international trade and commerce, investment, tourism, and sports, as well as educational, scientific, economic, and cultural activities
30 Wall Street, Suite 800, New York, NY, 10005
• Contact Sergio Millian
• Phone 212-844-9455
• Email milliangroup@gmail.com
• URL http://www.russianamericanchamber.com
...and claimed that through that position he had " insider knowledge and direct access to the top hierarchy in Russian politics."501 Papadopoulos asked Timofeev whether he had heard of Millian. 502 Although Timofeev said no, 503 Papadopoulos met Millian in New York City.504 The meetings took place on July 30 and August 1, 2016.505 Afterwards, Millian invited Papadopoulos to attend-and potentially speak at-two international energy conferences, including one that was to be held in Moscow in September 2016.506 Papadopoulos ultimately did not attend either conference.
On July 31, 2016, following his first in-person meeting with Millian, Papadopoulos emailed Trump Campaign official Bo Denysyk (click here)...
High technology,(click here) international market development, governmental relations, information technology, commercial aviation and trade policy and regulations are areas in which Dr. Denysyk has developed notable expertise. His breadth of experience, however, spans more than 45 years....
...to say that he had been contacted "by some leaders of Russian-American voters here in the US about their interest in voting for Mr. Trump," and to ask whether he should "put you in touch with their group (US-Russia chamber of commerce)."507 Denysyk thanked Papadopoulos "for taking the initiative," but asked him to "hold off with outreach to Russian-Americans" because "too many articles" had already portrayed the Campaign, then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort, and candidate Trump as "being pro-Russian."508
Footnote 500 7/15/16 Linkedln Message, Millian to Papadopoulos.
Footnote 501 7 /15/16 Linkedln Message, Millian to Papadopoulos.
Footnote 502 7/22/16 Facebook Message, Papadopoulos to Timofeev (7:40:23 p.m.); 7/26/16 Facebook Message, Papadopoulos to Timofeev (3:08:57 p.m.).
Footnote 503 7/23/16 Facebook Message, Timofeev to Papadopoulos (4:31:37 a.m.); 7/26/16 Facebook Message, Timofeev to Papadopoulos (3:37: 16 p.m.).
Footnote 504 7/16/16 Text Messages, Papadopoulos & Millian (7:55:43 p.m.).
Footnote 505 7/30/16 Text Messages, Papadopoulos & Millian (5:38 & 6:05 p.m.); 7/31/16 Text Messages, Millian & Papadopoulos (3:48 & 4:18 p.m.); 8/ 1/16 Text Message, Millian to Papadopoulos (8:19 p.m.).
Footnote 506 8/2/16 Text Messages, Millian & Papadopoulos (3 :04 & 3 :05 p.m.); 8/3/16 Facebook Messages, Papadopoulos & Millian (4:07:37 a.m. & 1:11:58 p.m.).
Footnote 507 7/31/16 Email, Papadopoulos to Denysyk (12:29:59 p.m.).
Footnote 508 7 /31/16 Email, Denysyk to Papadopoulos (21 :54:52).
August 23, 2016, Millian sent a Facebook message to Papadopoulos promising that he would " share with you a disruptive technology that might be instrumental in your political work for the campaign."509 Papadopoulos claimed to have no recollection of this matter.510
On November 9, 2016, shortly after the election, Papadopoulos arranged to meet Millian in Chicago to discuss business opportunities, including potential work with Russian "billionaires who are not under sanctions." 511 The meeting took place on November 14, 2016, at the Trump Hotel and Tower in Chicago. 512 According to Papadopoulos, the two men discussed partnering on business deals, but Papadopoulos perceived that Millian's attitude toward him changed when Papadopoulos stated that he was only pursuing private-sector opportunities and was not interested in a job in the (Trump's) Administration. 513 The two remained in contact, however, and had extended online discussions about possible business opportunities in Russia. 514 The two also arranged to meet at a Washington, D.C. bar when both attended Trump's inauguration in late January 2017 515
I find that really curious. Why would Millian ever be invited to an inaugural anything if he was the source of the Steele Dossier? He was Russian and connected with Russia and USA Russian organizations. That is why the Trump campaign had an interest.
Footnote 509 8/23/16 Facebook Message, Millian to Papadopoulos (2:55:36 a.m.).
Footnote 510 Papadopoulos 9/20/17 302, at 2.
Footnote 511 11/10/16 Facebook Message, Millian to Papadopoulos (9:35:05 p.m.).
Footnote 512 11/14/16 Facebook Message, Millian to Papadopoulos (1 :32: 11 a.m.).
Footnote 513 Papadopoulos 9/19/17 302, at 19.
514 E.g., 11/29/16 Facebook Messages, Papadopoulos & Millian (5:09 - 5:11 p.m.); 12/7/16 Facebook Message, Millian to Papadopoulos (5:10:54 p.m.).
Footnote 515 1/20/17 Facebook Messages, Papadopoulos & Millian (4:37-4:39 a.m.).
"Trump Advisor Visit To Moscow Got the FBI's Attention" (click here)
Carter Page worked for the Trump Campaign from January 2016 to September 2016. He was formally and publicly announced as a foreign policy advisor by the candidate in March 2016.516 Page had lived and worked in Russia, and he had been approached by Russian intelligence officers several years before he volunteered for the Trump Campaign. During his time with the Campaign, Page advocated pro-Russia foreign policy positions and traveled to Moscow in his personal capacity. Russian intelligence officials had formed relationships with Page in 2008 and 2013 and Russian officials may have focused on Page in 2016 because of his affiliation with the Campaign. However, the investigation did not establish that Page coordinated with the Russian government in its efforts to interfere with the 2016 presidential election.
Trump's foreign policy advisors had a dense history of having contact with Russia. How much does anyone have to know to understand Trump didn't care about the USA, he cared about Russia and monies he could get from a Moscow venture.
Footnote 516 Page was interviewed by the FBI during five meetings in March 2017, before the Special Counsel's appointment Grand Jury
a. Background
Before he began working for the Campaign in January 2016, Page had substantial prior experience studying Russian policy issues and living and working in Moscow. From 2004 to 2007, Page was the deputy branch manager of Merrill Lynch's Moscow office.517 There, he worked on transactions involving the Russian energy company Gazprom and came to know Gazprom's deputy chief financial officer, Sergey Yatsenko. 518...
Page’s business partner
Page returned to the United States in 2008 and founded his own investment firm, Global Energy Capital. His partner there, according to Politico, was a former Gazprom executive, Sergei Yatsenko.
...In 2008, Page founded Global Energy Capital LLC (GEC), investment management and advisory firm focused on the energy sector in emerging markets. 519 Grand Jury 520 The company otherwise had no sources of income, and Page was forced to draw down his life savings to support himself and pursue his business venture.521 Page asked Yatsenko to work with him at GEC as a senior advisor on a contingency basis. Grand Jury 522
In 2008, Page met Alexander Bulatov, a Russian government official who worked at the Russian Consulate in New York. 523 Page later learned that Bulatov was a Russian intelligence officer, Grand Jury 524
Not coming up with much on Alexander Bulatov, but, if he is a spy that could be the reason. There is a Russian artist with the last name Bulotov (click here).
The article below is interesting to me. It was published during the time Putin was conducting his groundwork to influence the 2016 elections. I think announced around this time. The FBI was picking up on Russian activity during that time. They never missed anything, perhaps their insight to Putin involvement and the impact to the elections weren't realized. But, they were on to Russian activity.
In 2013, Victor Podobnyy,...
27 January 2015
By Will Stewart
- Igor Sporyshev is the son of a high ranking Russian intelligence officer
- Sporyshev is accused of being part of an 'espionage ring' in America
- Officially, the 40-year-old was registered as a Russian trade representative
- FBI recorded Sporyshev allegedly explaining why recruiting women is hard
- Alleged spy Victor Podobnyy, 27, complained his role was not like Bond's
- Charged on Monday, but had left the country under diplomatic cover
- Speculation third 'spy' Evgeny Buryakov planning a Wall Street meltdown
- Russia claims the U.S. has provided no evidence to back up the charges
Igor Sporyshev, 40, is one of two 'espionage ring' members who left America under diplomatic cover.
He was a handler of Evgeny Buryakov, 39, who is now detained in New York on suspicion of being part of an intelligence gathering that sought to recruit spies - including female college students - in the US, according to federal prosecutors.
Meanwhile it has been revealed the third alleged spy, Victor Podobnyy, who has also left America, was recorded complaining his role was a far cry from the James Bond lifestyle he had imagined....
...another Russian intelligence officer working covertly in the United States under diplomatic cover, formed a relationship with Page.525 Podobnyy met Page at an energy symposium in New York City and began exchanging emails with him.526 Podobnyy and Page also met in person on multiple occasions, during which Page offered his outlook on the future of the energy industry and provided documents to Podobnyy about the energy business. 527 In a recorded conversation on April 8, 2013, Podobnyy told another intelligence officer that Page was interested in business opportunities in Russia. 528 In Podobnyy's words, Page "got hooked on Gazprom thinking that if they have a project, he could ... rise up. Maybe he can .... [I]t' s obvious that he wants to earn lots of money."529 Podobnyy said that he had led Page on by "feed[ing] him empty promises" that Podobnyy would use his Russian business connections to help Page.530 Podobnyy told the other intelligence officer that his method of recruiting foreign sources was to promise them favors and then discard them once he obtained relevant information from them. 531
There it is. It is unfortunate, but, Russians friendly to The West are always available to provide information to Putin and/or carry out nightmarish deeds. Never, ever get involved with Russians and money. The entire basis for TRUST does not exist with Russia. Every Russian is susceptible to being an agent for Russia. DO NOT DO IT.
Footnote 517 Testimony of Carter Page, Hearing Before the U.S. House of Representatives, Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, 115th Cong. 40 (Nov. 2, 2017) (exhibit).
Footnote 518 Page 3/30/17 302, at 10.
Footnote 519 Grand Jury
Footnote 520 Grand Jury
Footnote 521 Grand Jury
Footnote 522 Page 3/30/2017 302, at 10; Grand Jury
Footnote 523 Grand Jury
Footnote 524 Grand Jury
Footnote 525 Grand Jury Complaint ,r,r 22, 24, 32, United States v. Buryakov, 1: 15-mj-215 (S.D.N.Y. Jan. 23, 20I5), Doc. 1 ("Buryakov Complaint"). (click here)
Footnote 526 Buryakov Complaint ,r 34.
Footnote 527 Buryakov Complaint ,r 34.
Footnote 528 Buryakov Complaint ,r 32.
Footnote 529 Buryakov Complaint.
Footnote 530 Buryakov Complaint.
Footnote 531 Buryakov Complaint.
In 2015, Podobnyy and two other Russian intelligence officers were charged with conspiracy to act as an unregistered agent of a foreign government.532 The criminal complaint detailed Podobnyy's interactions with and conversations about Page, who was identified only as "Male-1." 533 Based on the criminal complaint's description of the interactions, Page was aware that he was the individual described as "Male-l." 534 Page later spoke with a Russian government official at the United Nations General Assembly and identified himself so that the official would understand he was "Male-I" from the Podobnyy complaint. 535 Page told the official that he "didn't do anything" Grand Jury
Page is absolute proof that the deeper a person was involved with Russia, the more Trump wanted to them as staff for his campaign. Page is one, Manafort is another. You can't get more involved with Russia except to become a citizen.
On one hand, I want to say the Trump Campaign never bothered to vet anyone involved with their campaign, but, the idea that people are deeply involved with Russia, only tells me they did. They were impressed with the exact people that became involved with the campaign. The deeper they were involved with Russia, the better the campaign liked them. Papadopolous was involved as well through a professor in the UK. He was headed exactly down the path Page had already traveled.
In interviews with the FBI before the Office's opening, Page acknowledged that he understood that the individuals he had associated with were members of the Russian intelligence services, but he stated that he had only provided immaterial non-public information to them and that he did not view this relationship as a backchannel.537 Page told investigating agents that "the more immaterial non-public information I give them, the better for this country." 538
Every Russian is a backchannel. Wow. How much money does it take to convince an American to live in denial of what they assuredly know?
532 See Buryakov Complaint; see also Indictment United States v. Buryakov, 1: 15-cr-73 (S.D.N. Y. Feb. 9, 2015), Doc. 10;
533 Buryakov Complaint, 32-34 Grand Jury
534 Grand Jury
535 Page 3/30/17 302, at 4; Grand Jury
536 Page 3/30/17 302, at 4; Grand Jury
537 Page 3/30/17 302, at 6; Page 3/31/17 302, at 1.
538 Page 3/31/17 302, at 1
b. Origins of and Early Campaign Work
In January 2016, Page began volunteering on an informal, unpaid basis for the Trump Campaign after Ed Cox,...
In This Photo from left to right:
John Catsimatidis, Tricia Nixon Cox, Edward F. Cox, Christopher Nixon Cox,
Ed Cox is a lawyer (click here) with a distinguished record of service to his Party and in the domestic and international policy arenas. He has served three U.S. Presidents, four Governors and the Republican Party at the state and national levels. He was sworn in as Chairman of the Republican Party of New York State on September 29, 2009....
May 20, 2019
By Yancey Roy
Albany - Ed Cox (click here) stepped down Monday as head of the Republican Party in New York, just months after heavy losses statewide in congressional and legislative races led to calls for a leadership change.
Allies say Nick Langworthy, the longtime Erie County Republican chairman who had publicly challenged Cox for the leadership, sewed up a majority of the party’s state committee Monday morning.
President Donald Trump's 2020 re-election campaign announced Cox's appointment to the campaign finance team hours after Langworthy allies claimed victory.
Cox, a son-in-law of the late President Richard M. Nixon, had led the New York GOP since 2009....
...a state Republican Party official, introduced Page to Trump Campaign official told the Office that his goal in working on the Campaign was to help candidate Trump improve relations with Russia.540 To that end, Page emailed Campaign officials offering his thoughts on U.S.-Russia relations, prepared talking points and briefing memos on Russia, and proposed that candidate Trump meet with President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.541
In communications with Campaign officials, Page also repeatedly touted his high-level contacts in Russia and his ability to forge connections between candidate Trump and senior Russian governmental officials. For example, on January 30, 2016, Page sent an email to senior Campaign officials stating that he had "spent the past week in Europe and ha[ d] been in discussions with some individuals with close ties to the Kremlin" who recognized that Trump could have a "game-changing effect ... in bringing the end of the new Cold War."542 The email stated that " [t]hrough [his] discussions with these high level contacts," Page believed that "a direct meeting in Moscow between Mr[.] Trump and Putin could be arranged."543 Pa e closed the email b criticizin U.S. sanctions on Russia.544
Grand Jury 545
That is amazing. The Trump campaign and now the administration is taking this ideological stance on national defense that leaves open danger to the country. There is no reason to believe such an ideology will be important to Russia. There is no sincere initiatives to a peace plan with Russia and in fact, how could there be when they are parking nuclear capable jets in Venezuela?
The idea a nuclear capacity in Venezuela is even tolerated is counter to USA national security. To even think Venezuela would conceive a nuclear capacity in the Western Hemisphere that would damage almost every country in this hemisphere if one was detonated. The entire paradigm that Putin is creating in the Western hemisphere is inhumane and stupid.
Shared mutual destruction takes on a very interesting connotation in Venezuela. The idea Russia is AGAIN trying to propagate nuclear war as it did under President Kennedy only goes to prove that it has no conscience about other people, even other people than the USA.
Venezuela is a puppet to Putin's maniacal plans that would cause enormous deaths of people in many countries and not simply the USA. Any near-shore wars in the Carribean and/or Gulf of Mexico is unthinkable. The future of all those countries would be impossible with nuclear contaminated water.
That is how deranged Putin's thinking is about Russian domination of the world. At any cost, Putin wants war and not peace.
Nuclear non-proliferation is the ONLY answer for the world.
On March 21 , 2016, candidate Trump formally and publicly identified Page as a member of his foreign policy team to advise on Russia and the energy sector.546 Over the next several months, Page continued providing policy-related work product to Campaign officials. For example, in April 2016, Page provided feedback on an outline for a foreign policy speech that the candidate gave at the Mayflower Hotel,547 see Volume I, Section IV.A.4, infra. In May 2016, Page prepared an outline of an energy policy speech for the Campaign and then traveled to Bismarck, North Dakota, to watch the candidate deliver the speech.548 Chief policy advisor Sam Clovis expressed appreciation for Page's work and praised his work to other Campaign officials.549
Footnote 539 Page 3/16/17 302, at 1; Grand Jury
Footnote 540 Page 3/10/17 302, at 2.
Footnote 541 See, e.g., 1/30/16 Email, Page to Glassner et al.; 3/17/16 Email, Page to Clovis (attaching a following Washington's meddling" in Ukraine); "President's Daily Brief' prepared by Page that discussed the "severe degradation ofU.S.-Russia relations Grand Jury I didn't find a copy of that PDB. It is probably classified.
Footnote 542 1/30/16 Email, Page to Glassner et. al.
Footnote 543 1/30/16 Email, Page to Glassner et. al.
Footnote 544 1/30/16 Email, Page to Glassner et. al.
Footnote 545 Grand Jury
Footnote 546 A Transcript of Donald Trump's Meeting with the Washington Post Editorial Board, Washington Post (Mar. 21, 2016);
Footnote 547 Grand Jury
Footnote 548 Grand Jury
Footnote 549 See, e.g., 3/28/16 Email, Clovis to Lewandowski et al. (forwarding notes prepared by Page and stating, "I wanted to let you know the type of work some of our advisors are capable of.").
I will start here tomorrow:
c. Carter Page's July 2016 Trip To Moscow
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