Lawyer Who Was Said to Have Dirt on Clinton Had Closer Ties to Kremlin Than She Let On

[PunkinPi]

Source: NY Times

MOSCOW — The Russian lawyer who met with Trump campaign officials in Trump Tower in June 2016 on the premise that she would deliver damaging information about Hillary Clinton has long insisted she is a private attorney, not a Kremlin operative trying to meddle in the presidential election.

But newly released emails show that in at least one instance two years earlier, the lawyer, Natalia V. Veselnitskaya, worked hand in glove with Russia’s chief legal office to thwart a Justice Department civil fraud case against a well-connected Russian firm.

Ms. Veselnitskaya also appears to have recanted her earlier denials of Russian government ties. During an interview to be broadcast Friday by NBC News, she acknowledged that she was not merely a private lawyer but a source of information for a top Kremlin official, Yuri Y. Chaika, the prosecutor general.

“I am a lawyer, and I am an informant,” she said. “Since 2013, I have been actively communicating with the office of the Russian prosecutor general.”

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/27/us/natalya-veselnitskaya-trump-tower-russian-prosecutor-general.html

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[NewJeffCT]

1. I doubt anybody is surprised by this

but, glad it has been made public.

[rainin]

2. Is it treason yet ?

[dalton99a]

3. Kick

[MrScorpio]

4. My, my, my... You don't say.

[DetlefK]

5. No mere lawyer can afford the house that she has bought.

Prime real-estate in Moscow's best quarter, where also Putin lives? Bought by an average lawyer with an average salary? Oh please.

[jpak]

6. Treason

Lock Them UP!

[Mr. Sparkle]

7. You had me at "The Russian lawyer" !

[BobTheSubgenius]

8. Annnddd....

...out comes the polonium.

[Sophia4]

9. Didn't the e-mail that was sent to set up the meeting introduce her as somehow

associated with the prosecutor in Russia?

[onecent]

10. I just hope they get them all to a penitiary... this include the Dipsit president.

[Scarsdale]

11. Why is there

no vetting process for these Russian operatives? They seem to enter this country any time they want.

[Pepsidog]

12. she has her tentacles everywhere and apparently she boasted about it on Facebook

[C Moon]

13. Putin did his foot work.

So, at first glance some of these traitors looks fine, but when the digging begins, the evil deeds surface.

[Mr. Ected]

14. Putin's Moose and Squirrel Show

Are about as entertaining as the Dog and Pony Show put on by Donald J Trump.

[madville]

15. This was all first reported around November 2017 in a NBC news article

She also obtained the info she was going to present to the Trump team from Glenn Simpson at Fusion GPS. It certainly is a tangled web.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-dossier-firm-also-supplied-info-used-meeting-russians-trump-n819526

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

16. Surprise surprise

[muriel_volestrangler]

17. Kick (nt)