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c. Post-June 9 Events
Veselnitskaya (Russian Lawyer) and Aras Agalarov (Russian billionaire real estate developer) made at least two unsuccessful attempts after the election to meet with Trump representatives to convey similar information about Browder and the Magnitsky Act.749 On November 23, 2016, Kaveladze (Georgian-American business executive Vice President of Crocus Group real estate developer with Aras Agalov) emailed Goldstone about setting up another meeting “with T people” and sent a document bearing allegations similar to those conveyed on June 9.
Once Russia gets it's hooks into you they don't let go.
750 Kaveladze followed up with Goldstone, stating that “Mr. A,” which Goldstone understood to mean Aras Agalarov, called to ask about the meeting.
By Veronika Bondarenko
Rhona Graff, (click here) the woman once nicknamed "Trump's right hand" was one of many names to come up in Donald Trump Jr.'s emails about meetings with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya.
At 64, Graff is one of Donald Trump's most loyal and longstanding personal assistants. Before Trump was elected president, she worked as the gatekeeper to Trump Tower for nearly thirty years.....
Such assistants add to the deniability of Trump in almost any circumstance. There is a reason why his personal attorney saw prison. In this case it is questionable at this point in "the read" as to whether Aras Agalarov ever got his message to Trump and his team.
751 Goldstone emailed the document to Rhona Graff (Trump Executive Assistant), saying that “Aras Agalarov has asked me to pass on this document in the hope it can be passed on to the appropriate team. If needed, a lawyer representing the case is in New York currently and happy to meet with any member of his transition team.”752 According to Goldstone, around January 2017, Kaveladze contacted him again to set up another meeting, but Goldstone did not make the request.753 The investigation did not identify evidence of the transition team following up.
Trump instructed attorneys to contact the people at the June 9, 2016 meeting. You'll excuse me, but, that is constructive knowledge of the meeting. The attorneys just didn't pull them out of a hat, they knew who attended that meeting and these were Trump's attorneys. That is constructive knowledge of the meeting. Not only that but, there is more to come. Why contact them at all?
Alan Garten, general counsel for the Trump Organization.
Garten not only knew of the meeting he had details.
Angela Chen (center) (click here) hosts a celebration of Chinese New Year of the Monkey (click here)
Nicholas Platt is the gentleman on the right.
Later in June 2017, Goldstone participated in a lengthier call with Garten and Alan Futerfas, outside counsel for the Trump Organization (and, subsequently, personal counsel for Trump Jr.).757 On June 27, 2017, Goldstone emailed Emin Agalarov with the subject “Trump attorneys” and stated that he was “interviewed by attorneys” about the June 9 meeting who were “concerned because it links Don Jr. to officials from Russia—which he has always denied meeting.”758 Goldstone stressed that he “did say at the time this was an awful idea and a terrible meeting.”759 Emin Agalarov sent a screenshot of the message to Kaveladze.76
One big happy family. I find it very odd that all these people are sharing their thoughts and information with each other as if their innocence depended on it. They had to keep their stories straight. Evidently, Goldstone was blaming himself for the failure of the meeting as well as having a meeting at all. They worked him over. It sounds so Trump. Everyone else's fault. They never accept responsibility for anything. I wonder if the responsibility for the children was based on a paternity test?
The June 9 meeting became public in July 2017.
The June 9 meeting was in 2016. It was a secret for a year. All those people nad no one talked about it but simply communicated over the net to secure their "common memory."
In a July 9, 2017 text message to Emin Agalarov, Goldstone wrote “I made sure I kept you and your father out of [t]his story,”761 and “[i]f contacted I can do a dance and keep you out of it.”762
All that time and they kept running around scared of being caught.
Goldstone added, “FBI now investigating,” and “I hope this favor was worth for your dad—it could blow up.”763 On July 12, 2017, Emin Agalarov complained to Kaveladze that his father, Aras, “never listens” to him and that their relationship with “mr T has been thrown down the drain.”764 The next month, Goldstone commented to Emin Agalarov about the volume of publicity the June 9 meeting had generated, stating that his “reputation [was] basically destroyed by this dumb meeting which your father insisted on even though Ike and Me told him would be bad news and not to do.”765 Goldstone added, “I am not able to respond out of courtesy to you and your father. So am painted as some mysterious link to Putin.”766
The poor Russians, they caught the "Trump lying flu."
After public reporting on the June 9 meeting began, representatives from the Trump Organization again reached out to participants. On July 10, 2017, Futerfas sent Goldstone an email with a proposed statement for Goldstone to issue, which read:
Mr. Futerfas was busying manufacturing an alternative reality to protect Jr.
As the person who arranged the meeting, I can definitively state that the statements I have read by Donald Trump Jr. are 100% accurate. The meeting was a complete waste of time and Don was never told Ms. Veselnitskaya’s name prior to the meeting. Ms. Veselnitskaya mostly talked about the Magnitsky Act and Russian adoption laws and the meeting lasted 20 to 30 minutes at most. There was never any follow up and nothing ever came of the meeting.767
No follow up? Amazing. It is a neat little story. (7/19/2017)
Grand Jury the statement drafted by Trump Organization representatives was Grand Jury 768 He proposed a different statement, asserting that he had been asked “by [his] client in Moscow – Emin Agalarov – to facilitate a meeting between a Russian attorney (Natalia Veselnitzkaya [sic]) and Donald Trump Jr. Grand Jury the statement drafted by Trump Organization representatives was 768 He proposed a different statement, asserting that he had been the lawyer had apparently stated that she had some information regarding funding to the DNC from Russia, which she believed Mr. Trump Jr. might find interesting.”769 Goldstone never released either statement.770
The lawyers focused on Goldstone as the instigator to the meeting. No one knew anyone and of course everyone from the Trump camp was a victim. Samochornov was to parrot the words of the Russian lawyer at the Trump Tower meeting, Veselnitskaya. His reward paid legal fees. Ya just never know about Russians. The only truth-telling they do is their names.
Below is paragraph from the FBI interview with Samochornov (click here)
On the Russian end, there were also communications about what participants should say about the June 9 meeting. Specifically, the organization that hired Samochornov—an antiMagnitsky Act group controlled by Veselnitskaya and the owner of Prevezon—offered to pay $90,000 of Samochornov’s legal fees.771 At Veselnitskaya’s request, the organization sent Samochornov a transcript of a Veselnitskaya press interview, and Samochornov understood that the organization would pay his legal fees only if he made statements consistent with Veselnitskaya’s.772 Samochornov declined, telling the Office that he did not want to perjure himself.773 The individual who conveyed Veselnitskaya’s request to Samochornov stated that he did not expressly condition payment on following Veselnitskaya’s answers but, in hindsight, recognized that by sending the transcript, Samochornov could have interpreted the offer of assistance to be conditioned on his not contradicting Veselnitskaya’s account.774
Oh, see that. Just one big misunderstanding. There was no quid pro quo. Was there? Samochornov would have his fees paid for as he told the truth to the FBI.
Volume II, Section II.G, infra, discusses interactions between President Trump, Trump Jr., and others in June and July 2017 regarding the June 9 meeting.
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Footnotes are the emails, letters, text and phone calls that is EVIDENCE.
Footnote 749 Goldstone 2/8/18 302, at 11; Grand Jury
Footnote 750 OSC-KAV_00138 (11/23/16 Email, Goldstone to Kaveladze); Grand Jury
751 RG000196 (11/26-29/16 Text Messages, Goldstone & Kaveladze); Grand Jury
752 Goldstone 2/8/18 302, at 11; Grand Jury
DJTJR00118 (11/28/16 Email, Goldstone to Graff).
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756 RG000256 (6/2/17 Email, Goldstone to Garten).
757 Grand Jury
758 RG000092 (6/27/17 Email, Goldstone to E. Agalarov).
759 RG000092 (6/27/17 Email, Goldstone to E. Agalarov). Grand Jury
760 OSC-KAV_01190 (6/27/17 Text Message, E. Agalarov to Kaveladze).
761 RG000286-87 (7/9/17 Text Messages, E. Agalarov & Goldstone); Grand Jury
762 Investigative Technique
763 Investigative Technique Grand Jury
764 OSC-KAV_01197 (7/11-12/17 Text Messages, Kaveladze & E. Agalarov); Grand Jury
765 Investigative Technique Samochornov 7/13/17 302, at 1
766 Investigative Technique
767 7/10/17 Email, Goldstone to Futerfas & Garten.768 Grand Jury
769 7/10/17 Email, Goldstone to Futerfas & Garten.
770 Grand Jury
771 Samochornov 7/13/17 302, at 1; Grand Jury
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773 Samochornov 7/13/17 302, at 1.
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