Dems: Why did DOJ dismiss fraud case connected to Russian lawyer?

[VermontKevin]

Source: The Hill

Seventeen Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee sent a letter on Wednesday to the Justice Department demanding answers as to why the agency abruptly dismissed a money laundering case earlier this year involving the Kremlin-linked attorney who met with Donald Trump Jr. during last year's campaign.

In May, the Department of Justice (DOJ) settled United States v. Prevezon Holdings Ltd., a $230 million fraud and money laundering case that accused Prevezon Holdings executives of fraudulently obtaining a tax refund from the Russian treasury.

In the case, Prevezon was represented by Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Russian attorney who met with Trump Jr. during the campaign after promising incriminating information on Hillary Clinton.

The Justice Department settled the case two days before trial for just $6 million. The letter, which was posted on Twitter Wednesday afternoon, demands to know whether the two events are connected.

"Two days before this trial was set to begin, the Department agreed to settle this $230 million case for less than $6 million and no admission of wrongdoing," it reads.

"Ms. Veselnitskaya told one Russian news outlet that the penalty was so light 'it seemed almost an apology from the government.'"

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/341695-democrats-want-to-know-why-doj-dismissed-money-laundering-case

---

This is the Russian Lawyer Jr. met with.

Look at the settlement date. It's right after Preet Bharara was fired.

[Achilleaze]

1. RED ALERT - republicans and russians covering up treason and

no doubt a host of criminal financial activities.

[pnwmom]

2. YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was asking that question a few days ago.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029306699

What if, at the Trump Tower meeting with the Kremlin/Prevezon attorney, Natalia Veselnitskaya, they were discussing FIXING THE $230 MILLION RUSSIAN MONEY-LAUNDERING CASE AGAINST PREVEZON? In exchange for doing some little favors for DT.

That is, what if Jr. promised that his dad would go easy on Prevezon if he was elected with Russian help?

That would be worse. And there is circumstantial EVIDENCE.

SNIP

[VermontKevin]

4. Louise Mensch has tweeted about this connection a lot.

[pnwmom]

9. Good! n/t

[Leghorn21]

5. You GO, mom!! "BOOM"!!

[Achilleaze]

15. Bingo

[riversedge]

16. You just may have something there. Yes.

[mopinko]

3. there are snakes under every fucking rock.

[byronius]

6. I just don't see the connection.

HA HA HA HA HA! Sorry. Couldn't resist.

We're going to need a bigger Traitor Prison.

[VermontKevin]

7. Have one:

During the campaign, Trump said he would keep the detention center open and "load it up with some bad dudes." A draft executive order, obtained by The Associated Press and other news organizations, said the administration would keep the detention facilities on the base open "as a critical tool in the fight against international radical Islamist groups." The draft says the U.S. would suspend any further transfers out of Guantanamo pending a review of whether they are in the national security interests of the U.S. It indicates there might be changes in the military commissions as well, telling the secretary of defense to work with the attorney general and director of national intelligence to come up with recommendations "for the swift and just trial and punishment of unlawful enemy combatants."

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/01/27/what-next-for-guantanamo-bay-under-president-trump.html

Irony.

[byronius]

13. Now, that's a good use for waterboarding.

'Enemy combatants', indeed. If the cell fits...

[enid602]

18. Arc Experience

I think this might be a good re use of the troubled Ark Experience in KY.

[stuffmatters]

8. How much and how long has Russia been slushing the RW & the GOP? The unavoidable, emerging question.

Maybe start here, follow this string...who got the commish on the 225M saved by the GOP for Russia and Putin, the uber holder of all purse strings Russia?

More and more it looks like not just Trump but the organized GOP is not just being bankrolled by the Koch, Mercers, etc. After all
Putin's racist/sexist, political and economic ambitions for America are basically the same as the best known GOP Puppet masters. And the ease with which Putin infiltrated his "help" into the 2016 GOP campaign(s), the fight against Putin exposure by the GOP. their shared goals with Russia of authoritarian oligarchy....Putin's the richest guy in the world, and quite probably the biggest dark money source for the GOP of all.

[VermontKevin]

11. How long? Think Tom Delay/Abramoff.

[stuffmatters]

14. !! I never forget that PapaKoch made his early psycho seed money working for both Hitler and Stalin

This connex between Neo Nazis, antidemocracy, totalitarian rulers/industrialists certainly foundation of Fred Koch's John Birch Society.
In the 60's The John Birch Society was reviled; fifty years later of relentless propaganda, it's pretty much the ideological foundation of the GOP.

We're becoming increasingly aware of so many GOP legislators and employees constantly in Russia, meeting with Russians etc. Now that sure looks like confabbing & campaign fund raising to me.

Here's something that got my attention a while back: In Ca the RW uses the proposition route (either opposing good ones or proposing fairly fascist ones) to stymie democracy, since their Party's lost representation legislatively. There was an investigation by Ca into one of their Koch Proposition campaigns in the last couple of years, and guess what... slushed with illegal, foreign dark money!

Trump's taking his business dependence upon Putin into the political sphere is opening up a much bigger can of worms regarding the GOP's relationship with the antidemocracy powers in Russia. IMHO.

[BadgerMom]

10. K&R

[dchill]

12. K&R.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

17. Part of quid pro quo for Russians interfering with election. "The art of the deal". . . nt

[VermontKevin]

19. He really can't comprehend that there might be something wrong with his business model.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

20. Yes, he's so used to shading around the edges that he doesn't really know where they are. nt

[niyad]

21. wasn't Bharara the prosecutor in that case, before he was fired?