b. The Events of June 9, 2016
i. Arrangements for the Meeting
Veselnitskaya was in New York on June 9, 2016, for appellate proceedings in the Prevezoncivil forfeiture litigation (click here).714 That day, Veselnitskaya called Rinat Akhmetshin, (received large payments before and after the meeting in June with the Trumps) a Soviet-born U.S. lobbyist, Grand Jury and when she learned that he was in New York, invited him to lunch.715 Akhmetshin told the Office that he had worked on issues relating to the Magnitsky Act and had worked on the Prevezon litigation.716 (A perfectly legitimate reason to have a working lunch.)...
A translator (click here) named Anatoli Samochornov was in the meeting between Donald Trump’s campaign team and two Russian lobbyists last year.
...Kaveladze and Anatoli Samochornov, a Russian-born translator who had assisted Veselnitskaya with Magnitsky-related lobbying and the Prevezon case, also attended the lunch.717 Grand Jury Veselnitskaya said she was meeting Grand Jury and asked Akhmetshin what she should tell him.718 According to several participants in the lunch, Veselnitskaya showed Akhmetshin a document alleging financial misconduct by Bill Browder (click here)...
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Bill Browder was a subject of the Trump Tower meeting and the Helsinki summit.
Shortly after Presidents Donald Trump (click here) and Vladimir Putin wrapped up their recent summit at the Finnish Presidential Palace, in Helsinki, around two hundred journalists gathered in the building’s neoclassical ballroom. It was July 16th, three days after the special counsel Robert Mueller published an indictment charging twelve members of the G.R.U., Russia’s military-intelligence service, with hacking into Democratic Party servers and disseminating e-mails during the 2016 election. As Trump started answering questions about the interference, and it became clear that he would not accept the assessment of U.S. intelligence agencies over the denials offered by Putin, the frenetic sense of anticipation in the room turned to silent confusion.
Another quid pro quo:
Trump claimed that Putin had made “an incredible offer” during their meeting: investigators working with Mueller could come to Russia to interview the twelve indicted intelligence officers. In exchange, Putin explained to the gathered press, Russian investigators would question certain Americans who the Kremlin believes “have something to do with illegal actions on the territory of Russia.”...
Amazing. And at no time Trump told Putin, "No, there is no reason for any USA investigator or citizen to be interrogated by Russia." Never once. Yet, when The West is interested in a Russian and indicted for murder, Russians are never allowed to be extradited. Trump is a very weak president.
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...and the Ziff brothers (Americans with business in Russia),...
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By Lucy Komisar
Dec 16, 2019
Dec 16, 2019
I talked today on Fault Lines (click here) about the illicit Russian stock buys and tax evasion of the Ziff Brothers, whose Russian investments were handled by William Browder.
I think the Ziff Brothers made a wise decision to close the office. No doubt in my mind.
Ziff Brothers Investments, (click here) the multi-billion dollar family office hedge fund that invests the family fortunes of the three billionaire brothers is shutting down according to Wall Street Journal...
...The brothers Dirk aged 50, Robert, 47, and Daniel, 42 are grandsons of Ziff Davis Media founder William Ziff, Sr., who co-founded the publications business named Ziff Davis Inc way back in 1927. The brothers’ father, William Ziff Jr., took over the business in the 1950s and after several successful years of operation, sold it for $1.4 billion in 1992 as his sons were not keen on continuing the publications business....
.............................................................................................and those individuals subsequently making political donations to the DNC.719 Grand Jury 20
The group then went to Trump Tower for the meeting.721
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714 Testimony of Natalia Veselnitskaya Before the Senate Committee on Judiciary (Nov. 20, 2017) at 41, 42;
Alison Frankel, How Did Russian Lawyer Veselnitskaya Get into U.S. for Trump Tower Meeting?Reuters, (Nov. 6, 2017) (click here);
Michael Kranish et al., Russian Lawyer who Met with Trump Jr. Has Long HistoryFighting Sanctions, Washington Post (July 11, 2017);
My, my, how thoughtful Vladimir was of the Trump family. He even sent a great Russian lawyer to sculpture a way to end the Russian sanctions. This is highly unethical and completely corrupt and very illegal. Here sits Jr., once again, talking to a Russian lawyer and accepting advice on how to end sanctions A USA POLICY. There is nothing legal here. This is a presidential campaign meeting with a Russian lawyer TO LEARN HOW TO END SANCTIONS AGAINST RUSSIA. Wow. Wow. Someone want to pick up my jaw from the floor? The only word besides treason that comes to mind is FOOL!
see OSC-KAV00113 (6/8/16 Email, Goldstone to Kaveladze);
RG000073 (6/8/16 Email, Goldstone to Trump Jr.);
Lieberman 12/13/17 302, at 5; (This must be evidence that is not online because I looked in a few places to find the Lieberman reference and I couldn't find it. I will look again tomorrow.)
see also Prevezon Holdings Order (Oct. 17, 2016) (click here).
Footnote 715 Grand Jury
Footnote 716 Akhmetshin 11/14/17 302, at 4-6; Grand Jury
Footnote 717 Kaveladze 11/16/17 302, at 7;
Grand Jury Samochornov 7/13/17 302, at 2, 4; Grand Jury
Footnote 718 Grand Jury
Footnote 719 Grand Jury Kaveladze 11/16/17 302, at 7;
Grand Jury Samochornov did not recall the subject matter of the Trump Tower meeting coming up at lunch.planned Grand Jury Samochornov 7/12/17 302, at 4. In her later Senate statement and interactions with the press, Veselnitskaya produced what she claimed were the talking points that she brought to the June 9 meeting.
Footnote 720 Grand Jury
Footnote 721 E.g., Samochornov 7/12/17 302, at 4
Continued in a following entry. Thank you for your interest.
