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More on Akhmetshin: Oppo Researcher Behind Trump Dossier Is Linked To Pro-Kremlin Lobbying Effort
http://dailycaller.com/2017/01/13/exclusive-oppo-researcher-behind-trump-dossier-is-linked-to-pro-kremlin-lobbying-effort/<snip>
"According to Browder, Simpson, a former Wall Street Journal reporter, is working with a former Russian counterintelligence officer named Rinat Akhmetshin to destroy the Magnitsky Act, which is named after Browder’s late lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, and was signed into law in Dec. 2012."
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"The website reported that a lawyer for BakerHostetler briefed congressional staff ahead of a vote to expand the law globally. In another article, Politico reported that in May, Akhmetshin visited the offices of California Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, a Republican who has long admired Putin. Akhmetshin’s visit came a day before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs was set to consider the Global Magnitsky Act."
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