*****Breaking ***** Unreported Russian asset in Jr's meeting with Russian government lawyer *

[DemocratSinceBirth]

WASHINGTON — The Russian lawyer who met with the Trump team after a promise of compromising material on Hillary Clinton was accompanied by a Russian-American lobbyist — a former Soviet counter intelligence officer who is suspected by some U.S. officials of having ongoing ties to Russian intelligence, NBC News has learned.

NBC News is not naming the lobbyist, who denies any current ties to Russian spy agencies. He accompanied the lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, to the June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower attended by Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort.

The Russian-born American lobbyist served in the Soviet military and emigrated to the U.S., where he holds dual citizenship.


http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/russian-lawyer-brought-ex-soviet-counter-intelligence-officer-trump-team-n782851



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[dalton99a]

1. The lawyer was just a conduit

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. Why have we just learned of his attendance ?

[GusBob]

5. I think they call these thypes of players "cut outs"

They are like pawns for spies

[dembotoz]

4. No current ties .... guess that makes it all better

So was he on vacation?

[Cigar11]

6. John McCain was correct ...

There's More Shoe's that will Droop.

But the real question is, what is it going to take for John and his fellow Republicans to appose Donald Trump?

[rainbow4321]

7. AP has named him: Rinat Akhmetshin

His name, just like the Russian lawyer, is all over Browder document that Grassley forwarded to Boente in March 2017. Here is some of what is in it but if you go to the link their names start being listed and activity explained on/after page 8 or 9. NOTE his alleged history of computer hacking.


https://www.grassley.senate.gov/sites/default/files/judiciary/upload/2017-03-31%20CEG%20to%20DOJ%20%28Anti-Magnitsky%20FARA%20violations%29%20with%20attachments.pdf

The following people were involved in HRAGIF’s lobbying activities, and are listed as in-house lobbyists on HRAGIF’s LDA filings:

i. Rinat Akhmetshin

Mr Akhmetshin is a former member of the Russian military intelligence services (GRU). He is now based in Washington DC as a lobbyist

He was previously hired by clients with the mandate to generate
negative publicity. He was paid by a previous client to derail the US asylum application of a Russian citizen using false allegations of anti-Semitism.

He has been accused of organizing, on behalf of Russian oligarch Andrey Melnichenko, for the computers of International Mineral Resources to be hacked to steal “confidential, personal and otherwise sensitive information” so that it could be disseminated.