August 9, 2018
By Betsy Woodruff, Allison Quinn and Anna Nemtova
...When the accused infiltrator of the NRA needed cash, (click here) she turned to Igor Pisarsky, two sources familiar with her activities tell The Daily Beast....
...Pisarsky was Butina’s point of contact for the Nikolaev money, according to these sources—the face of the financing. According to one of the sources, he essentially acted like he was distributing grant money....
Konstantine Nikolaev - Banker
Igor Pisarsky - Middleman for banker and Butina, that has worked for two banks that faced USA sanctions, including the Bank of Moscow. Also, Pisarsky's firm's website: ...also says R.I.M. Porter Novelli has represented Skolkovo, an innovation center in Moscow run by a foundation connected to Putin ally Viktor Vekselberg, a sanctioned Russian billionaire linked to longtime Trump attorney Michael Cohen. The FBI warned back in 2014 that Skolkovo, which has cooperated with MIT and other American organizations, could be a hotbed for Russian spies looking to worm their way into U.S. companies, as The Boston Globe reported....Pisarsky has also worked with Alfa Capital, a unit of Alfa Bank...One of the bank’s co-founders, billionaire German Khan, is the father-in-law of Alexander van der Zwaan, who spent several weeks in prison after pleading guilty to lying to special counsel Robert Mueller’s team about work his law firm did alongside Paul Manafort for the Ukrainian government.
Paul Erickson - USA Republican
Alexander Torshin - Kremlin contact
