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deminks

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Fri Oct 4, 2019, 07:06 AM Oct 2019

Email Leak Exposes Trump Tower Russian's Dirty Lobbying Operations

https://www.thedailybeast.com/natalia-veselniskaya-email-leak-exposes-trump-tower-russians-dirty-lobbying-operations?ref=home

According to leaked emails from Natalia Veselniskaya, Russia’s disinformation campaign may have broken U.S. law and exposed details of a witness who later fell from a window.

LONDON—The identity of the U.S. government’s star witness in a high-profile trial—who subsequently fell out of a fifth-story Moscow window—was compromised in the course of a pro-Kremlin disinformation campaign run by Natalia Veselnitskaya, according to leaked emails.

The Russian lawyer who took part in the infamous Trump Tower meeting with senior Trump campaign officials was part of a secretive campaign on American soil that—according to the emails—may also have involved contempt of court and the violation of lobbying laws. She already has been indicted by the Southern District of New York on obstruction of justice charges.

A cache of emails obtained by the Dossier Center, which is a Russian opposition organization based in London, exposes the depth of foreign asset entanglement in Trump’s America at the precise moment that the president’s dealings with Ukrainian officials threaten to pull the Department of Justice and State Department into an unseemly impeachment fight.

The leaked emails offer an unprecedented look into the cynical world of Russia’s remorseless influence campaign within the U.S. Veselnitskaya was representing a company called Prevezon, which was facing an American trial over a $230 million fraud that began in Russia and implicated the Russian authorities.

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Email Leak Exposes Trump Tower Russian's Dirty Lobbying Operations (Original Post) deminks Oct 2019 OP
Victim doesn't remember. Prob given fast-metabolized date-rape drug before being pushed. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2019 #1
K & R Nevermypresident Oct 2019 #2
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