Why do you think Don Jr, Jared Kushner, and Paul Manafort kept so silent about the eighth person...?

[kentuck]

..in their meeting?

He was a very important person. With a title like the Economic Minister of the Russian Government or something similar?

Why were they so silent about this person?

This is a very, very important question?

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. And how did they think this would remain a secret?

[kentuck]

2. Good question!

http://www.latimes.com/politics/washington/la-na-trump-businessman-htmlstory.html

[NRaleighLiberal]

3. Hubris

[Sanity Claws]

4. The eighth person highlights the money laundering part of the operation

All of this is starting to come together.

[The_jackalope]

5. Exactly. He's a Crocus Group vice-president with responsibility for

"real estate and financial matters" which sounds a lot like money laundering. Crocus group is an Agaralov entity.

He's Also under investigation in the 1990s for setting up American shell companies as part of a $1.4 billion laundering scheme:

"In a a nine-month inquiry that subpoenaed bank records, the investigators found that an unknown number of Russians and other East Europeans moved more than $1.4 billion through accounts at Citibank of New York and the Commercial Bank of San Francisco.

"The accounts had been opened by Irakly Kaveladze, who immigrated to the United States from Russia in 1991, according to Citibank and Mr. Kaveladze. He set up more than 2,000 corporations in Delaware for Russian brokers and then opened the bank accounts for them, without knowing who owned the corporations, according to the report by the General Accounting Office, which has not been made public."

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2000/11/29/business/laundering-of-money-seen-as-easy.html

[Sanity Claws]

6. Trump is just a cog in a Russian criminal syndicate

Trump sold his soul, his nation, and everything else for money. He is a hollow man.
I was going to compare him to Bernie Madoff but Madoff created his own criminal enterprise. Trump was a tool of the larger Russian syndicate.

Sessions should start seizing property but won't.