Russian Company Tied to tRump Tower Chat May Stiff U.S. - Bloomberg

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A Russian-controlled firm is balking at paying a $5.9 million settlement to the U.S. that let it avoid a trial which threatened to expose an intricate international money-laundering scheme.

Prevezon Holdings Ltd. says it agreed to pay the U.S. once the government of the Netherlands released 3 million euros ($3.5 million) belonging to it that were frozen. Since the money hasn’t been released, Prevezon says it’s not obligated to pay the settlement.

The payment dispute stems from a decade-long drama tied to a $230 million Russian tax fraud and reaches the highest political levels in Moscow and Washington. Prevezon is represented by Natalia Veselnitskaya, a lawyer who also sat down with President Donald tRump’s son during the 2016 election campaign, in a meeting that was sold as an opportunity for tRump’s campaign to get dirt from Russia on Hillary Clinton.
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Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee asked the Justice Department in July to explain the decision to settle the case. Seventeen House Democrats asked Attorney General Jeff Sessions in a letter whether the involvement of Veselnitskaya,* whom they called a "Kremlin-connected attorney," may have helped prompt the deal, given her meeting with tRump Jr.

Under the terms of the settlement, the U.S. was to lift a freeze on Prevezon’s funds in the Netherlands, and the company was to pay the settlement within 15 days of that. - Bloomberg

Timeline

* - June 7, 2016: The 2016 primary season essentially concludes with Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton as their parties' presumptive nominees. At his primary night victory speech, Trump previews an upcoming attack in the form of a "major speech" he says he's planning to give in the next few days.

"I am going to give a major speech on, probably Monday of next week, and we are going to be discussing all of the things that have taken place with the Clintons," Trump said. "I think you are going to find it very informative and very, very interesting."

Just hours before, Rob Goldstone had finalized plans for the meeting between Trump Jr., Natalia Veselnitskaya and others. - NPR.ORG

BOOM! tRump-Russia collusion.

Now, just to get the people to attest to exactly that and tRump, tRump Jr., Jeff Sessions and a bunch of others are going to prison.

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1. The money trail reveals all...