Special counsel turns to unidentified eighth person at Trump Jr. meeting: report

[riversedge]

Source: the hill



By Max Greenwood - 07/18/17 11:13 AM EDT


Trump Jr. Plot Continues To Thicken


Special counsel investigators are requesting information about an as-yet unidentified person who attended a meeting between members of President Trump's campaign and a Russian lawyer, CNN reported Tuesday.

The person's attorney, Scott Balber, told the network that his client's identity is known to prosecutors and that the person is "cooperating fully" with investigators.

"The eighth person has been identified by prosecutors, and we are cooperating fully with prosecutors as a result of the investigation," Balber told CNN. "To preserve the integrity of the investigation, we are declining to identify him at this time."


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The person is reportedly a representative of Emin Agalarov, a Russian-Azerbaijani pop star, and his father, Russian real estate developer Aras Agalarov, both of whom have done business with Trump....................


Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/342511-mueller-wants-information-on-unidentified-eighth-person-at-trump-jr

[niyad]

1. in a sane society, each and every one of these traitorous bastards would be in prison.

[Mrs. Overall]

2. He's just been identified: Ike Kaveladze (see link below)

from the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/politics/washington/la-na-trump-businessman-htmlstory.html

[kentuck]

3. Here is some interesting information:

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

[Mrs. Overall]

5. But, but, he was at the meeting to discuss adoption and how to launder diapers...

[GeorgeGist]

8. Some interesting language ...

In an interview, Mr. Kaveladze said he had engaged in no wrongdoing. He described the G.A.O. investigation as a ''witch hunt.''

[Laxman]

4. Quite The Interesting Character.....

I wonder what he brought to the meeting?

A Congressional inquiry has found that it is ''relatively easy'' for foreigners to hide their identities and form shell companies here that can launder money through American banks.

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....

More than $800 million was wired from abroad to 136 accounts that Mr. Kaveladze opened at Citibank for Russian clients, and most of that was then sent to overseas accounts, said the report, which was provided to The New York Times by government officials who want to see its findings receive maximum exposure. The report is to be released on Thursday.

About $600 million moved through the Commercial Bank, the investigation found.

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

[Sanity Claws]

7. This whole thing was a money laundering scheme

This ties in to the money laundering case pending in SDNY that was settled days after Preet Bhara was fired by Trump.

Manafort is also part of the money laundering scheme.

Trump is involved in the biggest money laundering scheme ever.

[Vinca]

6. Already lawyered up . . . interesting.

[bucolic_frolic]

9. It's growing into quite a conclave

Nice to know Russians were so interested in America.

Oh wait, they were a bunch of very well-off men running an adoption organization

Guys in thousand dollar suits who spend their time making multi-million dollar real
estate deals had a sudden concern for orphans

Why would I think anything else?