Banker who worked as Russian secret agent to be released early, deported

[groundloop]

Source: CBS News

A man sentenced in May 2016 to 30 months in federal prison for conspiring to act as a secret agent for Russia will receive early release on Saturday and will then be deported, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has spokesman confirmed to CBS News.

Federal Bureau of Prisons documents obtained by CBS News cite good behavior in the agency’s decision to grant early release to Evgeny Buryakov, who collected intelligence for Russia while working for a Russian bank in New York City.

Buryakov worked at the New York office of Vnesheconombank, a Russian government-owned bank, before he was arrested in January 2014 and accused of being part of a spy ring that collected intelligence for the S.V.R., Russia’s foreign intelligence agency. Buryakov and two Russians with diplomatic immunity were recorded by the FBI allegedly conspiring to gather economic intelligence and recruit sources in New York City.

Vnesheconombank made headlines earlier this week when it confirmed to Reuters that in 2016 its representatives met with then candidate Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who is now senior advisor to the President. Senate investigators plan to question Kushner about the meetings as part of a probe into Russian meddling in the presidential election.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/banker-who-worked-as-russian-secret-agent-to-be-released-early-deported/

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"Vnesheconombank made headlines earlier this week when it confirmed to Reuters that in 2016 its representatives met with then candidate Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner..." The coincidences just keep piling up, don't they?

[Thomas Hurt]

1. Wow, how convenient.....

out of reach of the House and Senate Committees. Hopefully the FBI have interrogated him on everything they needed to.

Too bad for him though now he is in going back the sweet Motherland of Polonium and street assassinations.

[japple]

9. Yes--the land of falling bathtubs!

[alfredo]

12. Falling bathtub?

[japple]

13. No, this one

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/22/magnitsky-family-lawyer-reportedly-thrown-from-building.html

[alfredo]

15. OK thanks.

[japple]

14. No, this one.

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/22/magnitsky-family-lawyer-reportedly-thrown-from-building.html

Two Kremlin-loyal news outlets reported on March 21 that Gorokhov fell while trying to move a Jacuzzi up to his apartment together with two movers.

Those reports included photos and a video of a shattered tub outside a building. The news outlets claimed it was the Jacuzzi that was being moved

[Honeycombe8]

2. It's good to know the King. nt

[keithbvadu2]

3. Russian agents Trump and Sessions hard at work.

Russian agents Trump and Sessions hard at work.

[dalton99a]

7. Yep.

[NBachers]

4. How about he does his time, then gets deported?

What else is happening here that they're not telling us?

[jpak]

5. Trump hustled him out so he wouldn't talk

or maybe he did?

[Mc Mike]

6. Served 11 out of 30 months, for being a russian spy against the US, eh?

dRumpf and the repugs are 'tough on crime'. Ba LEE me.

[lostnfound]

8. I remember Rachel describing this guy, areested outside a supermarket trying to recruit young women

To be spies. There were theee men but the other two had diplomatic immunity.

[keithbvadu2]

10. Did Trump claim we got some agents back or some benefit or was it pure compassion that a Russian age

Did Trump claim we got some agents back or some benefit or was it pure compassion that a Russian agent is to be released?

[UCmeNdc]

11. As a favor for Putin

Plus to keep him from talking?