Russian Official Tied to Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Trump Tower Lawyer, Is Dead

[dixiegrrrrl]

A Russian official accused of directing the foreign operations of Natalia Veselnitskaya, the lawyer who met senior Trump campaign officials in 2016, has plummeted to his death in a helicopter crash.

Snip......Russian Deputy Attorney General Saak Albertovich Karapetyan was exposed in a Swiss court this year for a plot to enlist another nation’s law-enforcement official as a double-agent for the Kremlin.

Media reports in Russia say he died Wednesday night when his helicopter crashed into a forest during an unauthorized flight in the Kostroma region, northeast of Moscow.

Karapetyan, 58, was intimately familiar with some of the most notorious operations carried out under the orders of Vladimir Putin. He worked closely with Veselnitskaya as well as running some of Moscow’s most high-profile efforts to thwart international nvestigations into Russia’s alleged crimes.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/russian-official-linked-to-natalia-veselnitskaya-the-trump-tower-lawyer-is-dead

Suspicious as hell, to me.

[Kali]

1. oh my

[NewDayOranges]

2. ANOTHER associate of Veselnitskaya died in another helicopter mishap in the fall of 2017...

Lots of Russians falling out of windows and having helicopter mishaps...

The story at your link is dated Mar 20, 2019

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. You happen to know who the 2017 guy was?

and thanks for the link date,,,,,I thought this was a current story, someone had sent it to me...

[mr_lebowski]

6. Should probably update the OP ... this was reported on and discussed at the time in March on DU (nt)

[NewDayOranges]

25. Saak Albertovich Karapetyan died in unauthorized helicopter trip in Oct 2018...

This is the same guy that's discussed in your link!


https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/409961-russian-deputy-ag-linked-to-lawyer-in-trump-tower-meeting

[Turbineguy]

3. Man, it's better to work for trump

there you only go to jail.

Obviously this was a hunting accident.

[UniteFightBack]

5. There are so many dead Russians over the last few years that I have lost count. nt

[MFM008]

26. I know

its like another Stalin purge in there.........

[Me.]

7. If It Was Me.

I'd be happy to stay in an American jail.

[Ilsa]

8. Has Maria Butina been sent back to Moscow yet?

Someone needs to share this news bit with her.

[Me.]

11. No She Has More Than A year To Her SEntence

as for Natalia ... her indictment still stands so if she wants to be safe she'll get herself here and into an American jail. I'm not sure if Putin had her put in jail or not.

On. Edit...it looks like she tried to get into the US after all.

“On November 3, 2017, a judge denied a request for Veselnitskaya to enter the U.S. to attend hearings related to the money laundering case.[34]”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalia_Veselnitskaya

[GemDigger]

9. Someone knew too much.

There is no such thing as coincidence or accident with Putin.

[Ilsa]

10. I wonder if an autopsy reveals that he also had a bullet

introduced into his brain before the accident?

[NBachers]

12. So, are the "Clnton Body Count" master sleuths going to start a Trump / Putin Body Count??

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. Putin thickens burial plots. . . . nt

[DetlefK]

14. Veselnitskaya tried to recruit one of Switzerland's top investigators as a double-agent.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-tower-russian-lawyer-natalia-veselnitskaya-exposed-in-swiss-corruption-case

[onetexan]

19. i dont doubt Veselnitskaya & Butina will meet a similar fate - death in some mysterious fashion

[guillaumeb]

15. And, the pilot of the helicopter died from polonium poisoning as he was flying.

[Jopin Klobe]

16. Gotta admire ...

... the Russian early retirement protocols ...

[PatrickforO]

18. LOL, yeah, that's one way of thinking about it.

[PatrickforO]

17. And Trump LIKES Putin, who habitually kills people who become

inconvenient, and he LIKES Kim Jong Un, who killed his negotiating team when they failed to make a deal with Trump.

So, yeah, it IS suspicious as hell.

[WA-03 Democrat]

20. I would describe it as

Envious and that is horrific!

Impeach the MF!

[CaptYossarian]

21. There goes Melania's divorce plans.

[SunSeeker]

22. I see the trail of dead Russians continues...

Apparently, being exposed is really bad for your health as a Russian agent.

[RHMerriman]

27. Wasn't that Clint Watts' line?

"If you want to know who was behind all this, follow the trail of dead Russians."

[SunSeeker]

29. Yep. nt

[TeamPooka]

23. Well, Putin did promise him he'd never spend a single day in jail...

[SayItLoud]

24. It's a message to tRUMP . nt

[58Sunliner]

28. The body count increases. That was more expensive than falling from the 4th floor.

[Blue_true]

30. Did that lawyer go home?

If so, she should plan her funeral.

Looks like Putin got tired of dealing with the iffy 4-6 story falls, where a hedge Bush could ruin well laid plans.

[fleur-de-lisa]

31. Being Russian sure is dangerous.

[DeminPennswoods]

32. Follow the trail of dead Russians

IIRC, that was a very early suggestion in the FBI Russia investigation.