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workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
Fri Jul 28, 2017, 09:35 PM Jul 2017

"Everyone thinks he was whacked"

"Everyone thinks he was whacked"
The US government ruled Mikhail Lesin’s death an accident, but multiple intelligence and law enforcement officials suspect it was a Russian hit. The government is withholding information so today BuzzFeed News has filed a lawsuit to pry the records loose.
Posted on July 28, 2017, at 10:59 a.m
By Jason Leopold (BuzzFeed News Reporter) Ken Bensinger (BuzzFeed News Reporter) Anthony Cormier (BuzzFeed News Reporter) Heidi Blake (BuzzFeed News Investigations Editor) Alex Campbell (BuzzFeed News Deputy Investigations Editor, UK) Tom Warren (Investigations Correspondent) Jane Bradley (Investigations Correspondent) Richard Holmes (Investigations Reporter)

Vladimir Putin’s former media czar was murdered in Washington, DC, on the eve of a planned meeting with the US Justice Department, according to two FBI agents whose assertions cast new doubts on the US government’s official explanation of his death.

Mikhail Lesin’s battered body was discovered in his Dupont Circle hotel room on the morning of Nov. 5, 2015, with blunt-force injuries to the head, neck, and torso. After an almost yearlong "comprehensive investigation," a federal prosecutor announced last October that Lesin died alone in his room due to a series of drunken falls “after days of excessive consumption of alcohol.” His death was ruled an "accident," and prosecutors closed the case.

But the two FBI agents — as well as a third agent and a serving US intelligence officer — said Lesin was actually bludgeoned to death. None of these officials were directly involved in the government’s investigation, but they said they learned about it from colleagues who were.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/jasonleopold/putins-media-czar-was-murdered-just-before-meeting-feds?utm_term=.aug2mRM6G#.pbwkvDEAY
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"Everyone thinks he was whacked" (Original Post) workinclasszero Jul 2017 OP
I've finished the first two chapters of this report and it is remarkable and very scary. aquamarina Jul 2017 #1
Things are going on in Trump's Amerika workinclasszero Jul 2017 #2
 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
2. Things are going on in Trump's Amerika
Sat Jul 29, 2017, 04:39 AM
Jul 2017

that we know nothing about I bet.

Maybe years from now it will all come out.

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