Breaking: Sen. Grassley postpones hearing at which Bill Browder former client of Magnitsky was

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Chris Geidner?Verified account @chrisgeidner

Breaking: Sen. Grassley postpones hearing at which Bill Browder — former client of Magnitsky — was due to testify.
3:44 PM - 18 Jul 2017

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Chris Geidner?Verified account @chrisgeidner 37m37 minutes ago

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Browder's Hermitage Capital filed a complaint w/ the Justice Dep't about potential FARA violations by those lobbying against Magnitsky Act.



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Chris Geidner?Verified account @chrisgeidner 35m35 minutes ago

Among others, complaint named Natalia Veselnitskaya & Rinat Akhmetshin, both of whom met w/ Don Jr. in June 2016.
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Chris Geidner?Verified account @chrisgeidner 23m23 minutes ago

Note: Browder had not asked for any postponement, told me he just got of the train in DC to testify tomorrow.
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Chris Geidner?Verified account @chrisgeidner 4m4 minutes ago

ALSO: Grassley is asking for visa/immigration info on Rinat Akhmetshin from DHS & State: https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2017-07-17%20CEG%20to%20DHS%20+%20State%20(Follow-up%20on%20Rinat%20Akhmetshin).pdf …

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[C_U_L8R]

1. Something sure hit a nerve.

Why the scramble, Grassley ?

[Shell_Seas]

2. I wonder why.

[NRaleighLiberal]

3. Oh oh...Assley saw that truth was in the forecast

[Eliot Rosewater]

4. I guess the GOP can just say no, you CANT know the truth.

[rainbow4321]

5. Well, Grassley is leaving out he knew/asked about the attendees in MARCH 2017

Like how he only refers to his July request. He sent an email to Boente and others with Browder's PDF attached that listed most of the attendees' names/history/pre- and post meeting 4 months ago. Did he know about the meeting 4 months ago and now is trying to make it look like he just found about their names in July like the rest of us? What prompted his request the end of March 2017 when Browder had sent his information to the Feds in *July 2016*?

What has Grassley known about the Trump/Russia lawyer meeting/attendees and when did HE and the other repubs find out? Cuz he showed interest in them 4 months ago.

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

Is Grassley worried that Browder is gonna pull out his dated documentation?

[Gabi Hayes]

6. More of grassley and pals are in on this than out

Duh

They're scared shitless

Hope mueller doesn't do what he did during BCCI

Look it up

Great get, BTW!!!!

My sister is a judge in Iowa and has good stories about what a crooked swine he is

[Gabi Hayes]

7. Btw, browder is a very brave man

Here's a good story


The grudge goes back to 2008, when the Russian government granted a fraudulent $230 million tax refund to an organized crime group that included Russian government officials using documents confiscated from the Moscow-based operations of the British investor Bill Browder, who had fallen out of favor with Putin. Magnitsky, a lawyer working for Browder to expose the fraud, was arrested and died in 2009 in a Russian prison, where there is evidence he was badly beaten and denied medical care.

Browder—who was born in Chicago but renounced his U.S. citizenship in 1998—responded by lobbying Congress to pass sanctions against Russians implicated in Magnitsky’s death.

In 2012, Congress, led by Democratic Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland and Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona passed the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act with broad bipartisan support over the objections of the Obama administration, which felt it would complicate U.S.-Russia relations.

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The Kremlin also escalated its vendetta against Browder—whose business activities were initially tolerated by Putin—requesting three international warrants for his arrest in 2013 and 2014, all of which were rejected by Interpol. Russian authorities have opened numerous criminal cases against Browder, including one for the murder of Magnitsky.

Browder, meanwhile, has lobbied other countries to adopt similar sanctions, and last year, Congress took up another bill named for Magnitsky to sanction human rights abusers around the world.

Great article. Much more:

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/07/13/the-putin-obsession-that-led-to-trump-jrs-meeting-215374

[OnDoutside]

8. Is Grassley looking to see if anyone in the Obama admin was responsible for letting her in ?

The framing of the letter seems that way to me.