The Russian Oligarchs and their US partners are relentless and ultra-violent. They will not passively relinquish one cent of their stolen wealth. Georgia and Montenegro are just two examples of the deep corruption in the McCain gang of Neocons, arms smugglers, and subversive operators of all kinds.
Two of the few "Abramoff Montenegro" google links not scrubbed:
Ney and Abramoff, whom DeLay once described as "one of my closest and dearest friends," crossed paths as early as 1996. That year Ney took a trip to Montenegro sponsored by a foundation that had links to Abramoff, who was a lobbyist for Montenegro.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/17/AR2005101701918_pf.htmlhttp://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0JZS/is_3_22/ai_n24981800/pg_1?tag=artBody;col1Seeing Russia the Abramoff way: a corrupt deal brokered by Jack Abramoff led Tom DeLay to sell a critical foreign-aid vote to the Russian mob
The IMF bailout was arranged to stave off the utter collapse of the "post-Soviet" Russian economy, which had been brought about through a corrupt "privatization" scheme "paid for in large part by U.S. Taxpayers," in the words of Time Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier.
Some 145 million Russians received U.S.-subsidized vouchers "for shares in some 15,000 large state enterprises," recalls Meier. "But before long, it all started to go bad--really bad. Privatization began with the vouchers--but who would get the factories and mines was more often than not understood long beforehand. In many regions, the so-called Red Directors would retain the controlling stakes in their old enterprises." This outcome was not accidental; instead, it was the result of a carefully laid plan. On August 23, 1990, Nikolai Kruchin, administrative director of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), issued a document entitled "Emergency Measures to Organize Commercial and Foreign Economic Activity for the Party," which outlined the fashion in which the Soviet ruling elite would supervise "privatization" efforts. According to Kruchin, "confidentiality will be required and in some cases anonymous firms will have to be used disguising the direct ties to the CPSU. Obviously the final goal will be to systematically create structures of an 'invisible' party economy."
Anonymous firms and other shell companies--including illicitly chartered banks--proliferated in Russia during the mid-1990s. Huge amounts of money were flowing into the "invisible" Communist Party economy, and nothing was coming out. The "Red Directors" bought up--or simply stole--everything of value, and spirited their profits away into offshore havens. Meanwhile, Russia's public debt was soaring as a result of extravagant welfare promises made during Boris Yeltsin's 1996 reelection campaign--promises that resonated with hard-pressed Russian citizens who were left, in many instances, even more destitute than they had been prior to the "collapse" of communism.
The oligarchs running Russia's "invisible economy" turned to the IMF for yet another bailout; some elements of the oligarchy, such as NaftaSib, worked with the likes of Jack Abramoff to bring key congressmen, including Tom DeLay, onboard.
Enter Abramoff
The proposed bailout met some resistance. In the Senate, "Phil Gramm
had actually succeeded in getting the votes necessary to nix new bailout money for the IMF, and it was Chuck Hagel who broke ranks and squirreled the deal," former Wall Street Journal Moscow correspondent Anne Williamson recalled to THE NEW AMERICAN.
The party-aligned Russian oligarchs "were using Israeli banks to move their ill-gotten gains out of Russia" at the time Abramoff was brought onboard as a lobbyist, reports Williamson. This was possible because "Israel had no money laundering law prior to 2000.... Abramoff, working his Israeli connections, probably met the NaftaSib people somewhere along the way, and--of course--they were happy to play whatever role necessary in the wake of the collapse to nab DeLay--the prize Abramoff was offering up."