Breaking: FBI investigation continues into 'odd' computer link bet Russian bank & Trump Organization

[MelissaB]

FBI investigation continues into 'odd' computer link between Russian bank and Trump Organization
By Pamela Brown and Jose Pagliery, CNN
Updated 5:09 PM ET, Thu March 9, 2017

(CNN)Federal investigators and computer scientists continue to examine whether there was a computer server connection between the Trump Organization and a Russian bank, sources close to the investigation tell CNN.
Questions about the possible connection were widely dismissed four months ago. But the FBI's investigation remains open, the sources said, and is in the hands of the FBI's counterintelligence team -- the same one looking into Russia's suspected interference in the 2016 election.

One U.S. official said investigators find the server relationship "odd" and are not ignoring it. But the official said there is still more work for the FBI to do. Investigators have not yet determined whether a connection would be significant.

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The story -- of a possible connection between computer servers -- is a strange tale because there are no specific allegations of wrongdoing and only vague technical evidence.

Internet data shows that last summer, a computer server owned by Russia-based Alfa Bank repeatedly looked up the contact information for a computer server being used by the Trump Organization -- far more than other companies did, representing 80% of all lookups to the Trump server.

More: http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/09/politics/fbi-investigation-continues-into-odd-computer-link-between-russian-bank-and-trump-organization/index.html

I really wish I could post more than 4 paragraphs.


A copy and paste from my post below about Alfa Bank:

It was also said to have paid for Carter Page's trip to Moscow. One of its co-heads, Pyotr Aven, is on the board of the New Economic School, where Page gave his speech. Richard Burt is currently listed on the board of LetterOne, the Western private equity arm of Alfa Bank, along with Aven.

Research credit goes to zkela on Reddit

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. For christ sake, if there was one percent this much evidence against a Democrat they would

have been impeached weeks ago.

[Docreed2003]

4. Truth...and probably would have never been elected in the first place.

Because this Intel was known well before the election!!

[Pacifist Patriot]

12. No kidding!

[Cosmocat]

17. Yep

LOCK HER UP and it cost Jillary tge election, and probably cost tge senate and sc picks over innocuous emails that there is not the first evidence were compomised ...

[Catherine Vincent]

2. All this "breaking news" and news alerts...

Something better come from this.

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. What is already known would be earth shattering and would result in instant

impeachment of any democrat.

[MelissaB]

5. I can't keep up with all the information.

I have things bookmarked, but evidently not well. I'm looking for Alfa Bank info. I know I've read about it.

[triron]

21. The connection to Alfa bank was known about on DU

way before the election. So why is it just coming out in MSM?

[Angry Dragon]

6. and yet Trump claims he has no money ties to Russia

[AgadorSparticus]

7. Heads need to not only roll, but people need to go to jail for this.

Too much!!! Cheeto needs to be impeached!!!

[MelissaB]

8. Apparently Alfa Bank paid for Carter Page's trip to Moscow!

It was also said to have paid for Carter Page's trip to Moscow. One of its co-heads, Pyotr Aven, is on the board of the New Economic School, where Page gave his speech. Richard Burt is currently listed on the board of LetterOne, the Western private equity arm of Alfa Bank, along with Aven.

Research credit goes to zkela on Reddit

[msanthrope]

9. Louise Mensch. nt

[MelissaB]

10. What do you mean?

[msanthrope]

11. This is her scoop. nt

[triron]

22. Mensch is way ahead of everybody

[anneboleyn]

13. I just saw this on CNN. Now Bernie is on and he is saying that Trump got financial support from Russ

Russia. Bernie isn't on the intelligence committee but I hope they keep pushing on this -- it makes me so fucking angry as Hillary would be getting impeached right now if ANY of these things happened under her watch. Trump's Russia connections are so elaborate at this point that it's hard to know who isn't entangled with Russia.

[ffr]

19. It is heartening to know that media outlets are seemingly working on these issues

They may actually have more bearing on our lives than what some celebrity is having for dinner or what color shoes they're wearing.

[Achilleaze]

14. No wonder republicans tried to shitcan the "ethics" office

republicans don't do 'ethics" - and they are up to their freaking hyper-hypocritical noses in russian-backed treason against the United States of America.

disgusting

[ffr]

20. +1

I'm as furious as you probably are.

[underpants]

15. Good article on this from October

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/cover_story/2016/10/was_a_server_registered_to_the_trump_organization_communicating_with_russia.html

[BadgerMom]

16. What other Republicans knew?

Reince? Ryan? McConnell? Chaffetz? There has been so much covering up! I am fed up and disgusted! If only anyone cared.

[ffr]

18. That's certainly odd.

[kentuck]

23. Carter Page was Trump's guy in the oil business...

at least, before he met Rex Tillerson.

http://heavy.com/news/2017/02/carter-page-donald-trump-campaign-russia-vladimir-putin-meet-meeting-igor-sechin/

<snip>
Carter Page worked at Merrill Lynch’s Moscow office starting in 2004. He later become the vice president and COO of that office.

Page has also worked on a number of transactions involving Russian oil companies. He has invested personally in Gazprom, a state-run oil company in Russia which operatives in conjunction with Vladimir Putin.

In an interview with Bloomberg in March 2016, Page said that when he was named one of Donald Trump’s foreign policy advisers, many of his Russian contacts reached out to him because they were excited about the possibility of eliminating U.S. sanctions on Russia.

“So many people who I know and have worked with have been so adversely affected by the sanctions policy,” Page told Bloomberg. “There’s a lot of excitement in terms of the possibilities for creating a better situation.”

Page later started his own firm, Global Energy Capital LLC.

...more at link