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Vekeselberg gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to Cohen beginning in January 2017.
Avenatti has posted documents . Vekselberg put the money in the SAME ACCOUNT that Stormy's payoff came from.
Remember when all this started and people kept saying that the Stormy case was just a distraction?
Here are the documents.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/pskgpwr15r48tx5/Executive%20Summary.pdf?dl=0
Here's CNN's story now:
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/08/politics/robert-mueller-russian-oligarch-payments-michael-cohen/index.html
(CNN)Special counsel Robert Mueller's investigators have questioned a Russian oligarch about hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments his company's US affiliate made to President Donald Trump's personal attorney, Michael Cohen, after the election, according to a source familiar with the matter.
Viktor Vekselberg, chairman of asset manager Renova Group, is an oligarch close to Vladimir Putin, and last month the Trump administration placed him on a list of sanctioned Russians for activities including election interference. The purpose of the payments, which predate the sanctions, and the nature of the business relationship between Vekselberg and Cohen is unclear.
The scrutiny of the payments could add to the legal troubles for Cohen, whose home and office were raided last month as part of a criminal investigation by federal prosecutors in Manhattan. In court documents, the prosecutors said at least part of their inquiry stemmed from a referral from Mueller's office.
The questions asked of Vekselberg suggest that Mueller investigators have been examining some of Cohen's business relationships as part of the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. Vekselberg is one of two Russian oligarchs the FBI stopped earlier this year after their private jets landed in New York-area airports as part of Mueller's investigation.
SNIP
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)ARREST TRUMP NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Perseus
(4,341 posts)pence is worst, all that trump does is create enormous anxiety in the country and the world, but as we have all witnessed, that guy has very little in his brain, he doesn't understand policy, he doesn't understand any of the bills he signs, he is just concerned on how he can funnel money to his accounts and how he pays the Russians.
They have to be defeated through the vote, ALL OF THEM MUST GO! - The Democrats need to be "street smart" to anticipate the cheating the republicans, and the Russians are planing for the midterm elections and 2020, but they all must go.
If trump is removed from office and pence, with his "good old boy" act takes over the presidency it will be tougher to remove them all, and maybe I have said it before, but THEY ALL MUST BE REMOVED FROM OFFICE. We need Democrats to take over the two houses and the Presidency in 2020.
get the red out
(13,468 posts)Either the evidence comes out at some point and justice is served, or the whole criminal enterprise goes free, when it all comes down has to do with circumstances.
I do think if Trump was impeached or resigns with his criminal activities proven, Pence would be completely neutered by the whole mess, and hopefully there would be a Dem Congress and at most a razor thin majority for Rs in the Senate. Not the easiest situation for a President to push his agenda through.
lisa58
(5,755 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)safeinOhio
(32,746 posts)awesomerwb1
(4,269 posts)nothing that will end the Dump nightmare yet.
pnwmom
(109,021 posts)Bradshaw3
(7,543 posts)This is substantative. It links a Putin-connected oligarch directly to dump and his slush fund. If anyone doubts Pee Brain is owned by Russia, this is more proof.
Kirk Lover
(3,608 posts)enid602
(8,668 posts)And I don't think the timing's coincidental. TRump has been smirking and has been so full of himself all day, what with doing Pootie's bidding with regard to Iran and all. This news hits him in the face like a freight train.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)happened to tRump's face! I thought someone had hit him full force with a shovel. His face is flat, and square. Repulsive from EVERY angle.
Demsrule86
(68,774 posts)bluedigger
(17,090 posts)Demsrule86
(68,774 posts)This is disgusting.
Chemisse
(30,821 posts)And this looks like a pretty big step.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Everyone is relaxed, mijo. We're simply getting more and more information that instills confidence, and no one is arguing this is the Rosetta Stone as you imply they are...
BigmanPigman
(51,650 posts)He is the oligarch that was at the moron's inauguration.
Viktor Vekselberg:
who attended that Moscow dinner in 2015 with Flynn, Stein, Putin etc, was at LOSER45s inauguration and also had electronics seized by FBI briefly at (NYC?) airport a month or so ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/04/us/politics/viktor-vekselberg-mueller-investigation.html
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=2055323
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)pnwmom
(109,021 posts)cynatnite
(31,011 posts)I never tire of watching that.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)Cha
(297,951 posts)This really is such great news after stupid trump stopped President Obama's Iran Deal.
iluvtennis
(19,901 posts)Cha
(297,951 posts)never matured out of the nasty mean, little bully stage..
WhiteTara
(29,731 posts)and it will turn us into pariahs on the world stage.
Cha
(297,951 posts)by his own sinkhole.. hopefully we don't go down with him.
Thank Goodness Iran is sticking with the other nations.
orleans
(34,094 posts)"404 that file isn't here anymore
someone might've deleted the file or disabled the link"
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)Different Drummer
(7,671 posts)SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)a kennedy
(29,754 posts)and Im sorry, I KNOW I SHOULDNT EVEN WATCH. I try not to, even in small doses........ but today I did, and theyre ripping John Kerry to shreds.
C Moon
(12,225 posts)get the red out
(13,468 posts)Jumping the shark at every turn.
karynnj
(59,508 posts)Here is the CNN link - https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/08/politics/iran-deal-john-kerry-trump-intl/index.html
As you can see, Kerry explained that he did nothing out of the norm for former secretaries. Not to mention, he makes a strong case for the deal and seeing him reminded me of that time where I trusted the people speaking for the US.
a kennedy
(29,754 posts)karynnj
(59,508 posts)I saw that one of the Boston Globe reporters tweeted this:
Link to tweet
That's who John Kerry is and why he is respected by his peers. I guess maybe Trump learned none of that in his "personal Vietnam"
uponit7771
(90,370 posts)R B Garr
(17,010 posts)Russian oligarchs.
Looks like all this talk about oligarchs has been fundamentally misunderstood by some. The real oligarchs are the global Russian mafia types in bed with the New York yahoos, but anything having to do with Russian interference gets a pass by some Senators...hmm.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)erronis
(15,450 posts)Should be easy to take out an enemy of the state. Especially when that individual/family may rat on the other rats.
(Sorry to mix rats and moles. All non-human rodents actually serve some purpose.)
babylonsister
(171,107 posts)awesomerwb1
(4,269 posts)Please have Guiliani back!!
trof
(54,256 posts).99center
(1,237 posts)To leak. Joel Osteen was leading the prayer when I tuned in.
EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)GreenPartyVoter
(72,384 posts)R B Garr
(17,010 posts)edit: no wonder they can't keep their stories straight. First thing was that Cohen took out a second mortgage, then Guiliani with his theories about retainers. Etc.
pnwmom
(109,021 posts)spooky3
(34,522 posts)On Trump had to do with his money and debt issues rather than blackmail over sex.
Chemisse
(30,821 posts)But financial crimes and treason certainly can!
tblue37
(65,527 posts)get the red out
(13,468 posts)Sex couldn't possibly hurt Trump! Sex doesn't hurt Rs, they are on the right hand of GAWD so they are exempt.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)Also included in these suspicious financial transactions are four payments in late 2017 and early 2018 totaling $399,920 made by global pharmaceutical giant Novartis directly to Essential in four separate transactions of $99,980 each (just below $100,000). Following these payments, reports surfaced that Mr. Trump took adinner meeting withthe incoming CEO of Novartisbefore Mr. Trumps speechat the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in late January 2018.
https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/during-davos-trip-trump-takes-meeting-novartis-bayer-ceos-and-other-execs
In addition, Essential received $200,000 in four separate payments of $50,000 in late 2017 and early 2018 from AT&T.
Essential also received a $150,000 payment in November 2017 from Korea Aerospace Industries LTD. The details of the above referenced payments and others are as follows:Monies Received from Columbus Nova LLC(controlled by Viktor Vekselberg and his cousin Andrew Intrater)
Approximately $500,000 over eight transactions from January to August 2017Monies Received from Korea Aerospace Industries LTD
November 27, 2017 -$150,000 Monies Received from Novartis Investments SARL(Wire Transfers originating from UBS Switzerland)October 5, 2017 $99,980November 3, 2017 $99,980December 1, 2017 $99,980January 5, 2018 $99,980
pnwmom
(109,021 posts)octoberlib
(14,971 posts)BobTheSubgenius
(11,575 posts)As things are, and have been for the last year and a half, it would be amazing if something like this wasn't discovered. What a f'ing mess.
Squinch
(51,080 posts)sell out the American government to the highest bidder, no matter who they are.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)Squinch
(51,080 posts)R B Garr
(17,010 posts)could skirt them. Goes to their intentions.
a kennedy
(29,754 posts)with the help of his ruskie friends. If he dont fry, AND SOON, im Moving to Ireland.......
quartz007
(1,216 posts)Consider Australia instead.
MrsCoffee
(5,803 posts)Sign me up!
quartz007
(1,216 posts)That climate is close to Ireland's. After spending 5 years in Seattle, I had enough of drizzle, cloudy-gloomy days, and now living in sunny Florida.
a kennedy
(29,754 posts)too. Australia??? ah, not my temperature type. Have seen to many shows where it looks to warm Nd hot. I love green.....
quartz007
(1,216 posts)At first I loved the moderate temps and greenery from constant drizzle. After 5 years living in Seattle, I had enough of gloomy weather and had to move!
olegramps
(8,200 posts)MontanaMama
(23,366 posts)Hot weather. Big spiders and big snakes. Cool birds. Id think about NZ if I were leaving the US. Temperate weather, happy people no snakes. Pipe dream...I cant go anywhere.
quartz007
(1,216 posts)it is harder to get resident visa in NZ than Australia. Australia is 10 times bigger than Texas, so has a variety of climates, most temperate region is southern coast.
Boomerproud
(7,976 posts)This SHOULD be huge, but I have been disappointed way too often.
mainstreetonce
(4,178 posts)"Trump will not finish his term"
I knew he had something. He doesn't bluff. Today he put it out.
This is huge.
ecstatic
(32,781 posts)I'm stunned that clown trump has been allowed to play president for this long.
world wide wally
(21,759 posts)I'm talking about the one for 5-10!
ffr
(22,676 posts)"Mr. Cohen used his First Republic account to engage in suspicious financial transactions totaling $4,425,033.46." pg 3.
bearsfootball516
(6,377 posts)Hes trying to drown this story.
IluvPitties
(3,181 posts)Sanity Claws
(21,863 posts)My guess is that he subpoenaed banks in the case he filed. However it takes time to get themand the other has the opportunity to obtain a protective order opposing the subpoena or setting terms on their release.
I cant imagine that he got so much so soon through the normal procedures that I know of.
spanone
(135,921 posts)Leghorn21
(13,527 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,033 posts)This is bribary.
Enoki33
(1,589 posts)by Russian / Putin oligarchs, isnt it reasonable to want to know if the RNC was similarly being funded?
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,064 posts)https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000000082&cycle=2016
I think there is more to the story. What is that $54,300,000 in "outside spending"?
Did they send money to Cambridge Analytica? Breitbart?
Botany
(70,635 posts)n/t
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,064 posts)Largest shareholder in Ross's Bank of Cyprus that he had control of until 5 minutes before he took the cabinet position.
BumRushDaShow
(129,913 posts)Tweeted by a CNBC WH reporter -
Link to tweet
TEXT
Christina Wilkie
Verified account @christinawilkie
Must see: How Russian oligarchs like Viktor Vekselberg (in Avenatti's report) are connected to Trump and each other. Amazing work by @dallasnews >>>
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,064 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,913 posts)I have seen association charts posted throughout the year but not the latest.
R B Garr
(17,010 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,913 posts)steventh
(2,143 posts)Ari Melber said that Michael Avenatti is scheduled to be on The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell tonight. It will be interesting to hear what he has to say about where and how he got the information.
bluestarone
(17,104 posts)Hoping this is the beginning of many big events in our favor!!!!!!!!!!!
Gothmog
(145,821 posts)orangecrush
(19,661 posts)gademocrat7
(10,680 posts)Follow the money.
mcar
(42,444 posts)to dig through all this crap!
Quixote1818
(29,014 posts)They are making this too easy for Mueller.
Volaris
(10,278 posts)Vladimir Putin absolutely NAILED our political system, it's shortcomings, and it's vulnerable, Popular underbelly.
What he could never fathom (it seems to this point) is the integrity of our Justice System, our national sense of Fair Play, and our Justice Depts CAREER commitment to the Rule of LAW.
I'm wondering of BOTH of those things stem from the fact that he's a rich dictator, and he's never thought twice about NOT having to answer for his own political crimes against his own countrymen, in a system of justice in which he, and only he, IS THE LAW...
byronius
(7,408 posts)Asymmetrical warfare by any other name. If we survive, they will have set us on a new and better path, and all the actions of the GOP will become the new third rail in politics. Fox will run chyrons identifying Trump as a Democrat, and every Republican will desperately try to bury their connections to this foul foreign-sponsored cabal.
We're not Germany 1930, nor are we modern Russia. Americans fought for this democracy over many difficult and bloody generations, and that spiritual devotion to fairness and rule of law will never die. They can intimidate and bribe and coerce and threaten and lie and cheat and steal and murder, but they can't kill us all, and that's what would be required.
Oops. Asymmetrical warfare is going to rebound into Hulk Smash Russian Oligarchs in three, two, one...
H2O Man
(73,670 posts)In the headlights of investigators!
Recommended!
tblue37
(65,527 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,513 posts)Thanks for the thread, pnwmom
onlyadream
(2,168 posts)Waiting on the weekly episode is killing me.
Nitram
(22,949 posts)This is better than a John Grisham novel.