Exclusive: Moscow lawyer who met Trump Jr. had Russian spy agency as client
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Fri Jul 21, 2017 | 12:25 PM EDT
Exclusive: Moscow lawyer who met Trump Jr. had Russian spy agency as client
Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya speaks during an interview in Moscow, Russia November 8, 2016.
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A general view shows a building, the disputed office facility taken over by Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), which according to the court documents was represented by lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya in the legal case, in Moscow, Russia July 20, 2017.
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By Maria Tsvetkova and Jack Stubbs | MOSCOW
(Reuters) - The Russian lawyer who met Donald Trump Jr. after his father won the Republican nomination for the 2016 U.S. presidential election counted Russia's FSB security service among her clients for years, Russian court documents seen by Reuters show.
The documents show that the lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, successfully represented the FSB's interests in a legal wrangle over ownership of an upscale property in northwest Moscow between 2005 and 2013.
The FSB, successor to the Soviet-era KGB service, was headed by Vladimir Putin before he became Russian president.
There is no suggestion that Veselnitskaya is an employee of the Russian government or intelligence services, and she has denied having anything to do with the Kremlin.
But the fact she represented the FSB in a court case may raise questions among some U.S. politicians.
https://www.google.com/amp/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN1A61LZ
Wonder how much longer the congressional republicans are going to be able to dance around the obvious?
