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Russ. witness in US corruption-trial killed in Russia after Trump-linked russ. lobbyist reveals name
https://www.thedailybeast.com/natalia-veselniskaya-email-leak-exposes-trump-tower-russians-dirty-lobbying-operations?ref=homeA 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.
An American law firm that had been working for Prevezon at the direction of Veselnitskaya was barred from the case by an extremely rare writ of mandamus handed down by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals because of conflict of interest with a former client. Emails suggest BakerHostetler, a major U.S. law firm that has also worked for The Daily Beast and its parent company IAC, continued to operate as a kind of shadow counsel in what would have been a clear breach of the court order.
Other emails suggest another court order was violated when the testimony given by a Russian witness leaked, endangering his life before he was due to return to New York to give evidence at the trial.
It was later reported in the Russian media that the witness—Nikolai Gorokhov—had fallen five floors from an apartment building in Moscow. He survived with a fractured skull. He said his fall was no accident, but could not remember exactly what happened.
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.
An American law firm that had been working for Prevezon at the direction of Veselnitskaya was barred from the case by an extremely rare writ of mandamus handed down by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals because of conflict of interest with a former client. Emails suggest BakerHostetler, a major U.S. law firm that has also worked for The Daily Beast and its parent company IAC, continued to operate as a kind of shadow counsel in what would have been a clear breach of the court order.
Other emails suggest another court order was violated when the testimony given by a Russian witness leaked, endangering his life before he was due to return to New York to give evidence at the trial.
It was later reported in the Russian media that the witness—Nikolai Gorokhov—had fallen five floors from an apartment building in Moscow. He survived with a fractured skull. He said his fall was no accident, but could not remember exactly what happened.
This is typical western hysteria.
So, a witness fell out of a window in Moscow. Big deal!
The lawyer of russian whistleblower Sergej Magnitsky fell out of a window in Moscow. Big deal!
A russian whistleblower afraid of heights commited suicide in London by taking a running leap head-first through a 1x2 foot window. Big deal!
A russian businessman who had a fallout with Putin drops dead after accidently eating a rare toxic tibetan plant that is known to be used by some intelligence-services for assassinations. Big deal!
The russian double-agent Sergej Skripal against whom Putin had vowed revenge gets crippled for life when somehow the chemical weapon Novichok shows up on his doorknob, after two officers of the russian military had been in the area as tourists using fake passports. Big deal!
The russian politician Boris Nemtsov, a critic of Putin, was shot and killed by an assassin-for-hire on his way home after a night out, in an area were all security-cameras had been switched off for maintenance. Big deal!
You westerners are so desperate to make Russia look bad, you are grasping at straws. It's ridiculous.
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