From 5/18/16, Daily Beast: Putins Dirty Game in the U.S. Congress
(related to Trumpco meeting with Russian lawyer that came to light today)
http://www.thedailybeast.com/putins-dirty-game-in-the-us-congress
The Russian government and its sympathizers have embarked on a concerted campaign to keep ill-gotten Russian money, and the crooks behind it, in business in the United States.
To do that, they want to rewrite the history of one of the most notorious corruption scandals of the Putin era. And, strangely, some members of the U.S. Congress and European Parliament seem to be playing along.
It all dates back to the passage of the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act on Dec. 14, 2012. This landmark piece of U.S. legislation, named for a tax lawyer in Moscow who uncovered massive corruption and allegedly died for that sin, sought to sanction and bar from entry into the United States dozens of Russian officials and mobsters implicated in a $230 million tax fraud and its murderous cover-up.
Since then, the Kremlin has tried every trick in its playbook to have the law repealed.
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Another, crueler “counter-Magnitsky” measure prevented Americans from adopting Russian orphans, many of whom are disabled or stricken with debilitating illnesses and languishing in substandard state institutions.
Jo Becker, the children’s-rights advocacy director for Human Rights Watch, denounced the anti-adoption law for making “vulnerable children pawns in a cynical act of political retribution.”
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Make no mistake. Trumpco were not meeting with the Russians because they care about adoptions.
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