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MelissaB

(16,420 posts)
Mon Jul 24, 2017, 07:34 PM Jul 2017

A pro-Putin California congressman has been accused of violating US sanctions on Russia

Source: Business Insider

A new complaint filed with the Treasury's Office of Foreign Asset Control alleges that California Rep. Dana Rohrabacher and his staff director, Paul Behrends, violated the Magnitsky Act when they tried to get Russia's deputy general prosecutor, Victor Grin, removed from the US sanctions list last year.

The complaint was filed by US financier Bill Browder, the founder of Hermitage Capital Management, who spearheaded the Magnitsky Act in 2012 to punish Russian officials suspected of being involved in the death of his account, Sergey Magnitsky.

Magnitsky uncovered a $230 million tax fraud scheme in 2008 when he was working for Hermitage that implicated high-level Kremlin officials and allies of President Vladimir Putin. He was later thrown in jail by the same Interior Ministry officers he testified against during criminal proceedings to punish those involved in the tax scheme, Browder said in 2015, and died in custody after being held for 358 days.

Browder's complaint rests largely on a Daily Beast report published last week alleging that Rohrabacher, a staunch defender of Russia and Putin, met with officials from the prosecutor general’s office in Moscow in April 2016. The report said he accepted a "confidential" document that Rohrabacher then used to try to undermine the Magnitsky Act on Capitol Hill.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/dana-rohrabacher-russia-sanctions-magnitsky-2017-7

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Eliot Rosewater

(31,097 posts)
3. This is who they have always been. To accept the treason of trump and
Mon Jul 24, 2017, 07:42 PM
Jul 2017

family, etal, they are admitting patriotism never mattered.

As much as I despised Ronald Reagan, I know he would not stand for this.

But, I assumed McCain would have come out against all this by now and he hasnt.

So..................

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
5. Damn. Just how far ARE we under the sickle of Russia?
Mon Jul 24, 2017, 07:45 PM
Jul 2017

Just how long has Russia been running parts of our government? No wonder Putin didn't like Obama. Obama didn't play.

oxbow

(2,034 posts)
8. GOP Majority Leader Kevin MCarthy: Theres two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump.
Mon Jul 24, 2017, 08:33 PM
Jul 2017

Remember that old chestnut? The one Paul Ryan wanted to keep all in the GOP family?

They all knew...just like they know about TrumpRussia. It's getting harder to avoid the truth every day...

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/paul-ryan-keeps-it-family-kevin-mccarthy-russia-trump

BigmanPigman

(51,432 posts)
9. The family (AKA The mob).
Mon Jul 24, 2017, 08:50 PM
Jul 2017

The GOP Congress is complicit and deserve to share drinks of tainted Russian vodka Putin style.

red dog 1

(27,648 posts)
11. Complaint "filed with the Treasury's Office of Foreign Asset Control"?
Mon Jul 24, 2017, 09:10 PM
Jul 2017

Don't hold your breath waiting for Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin to allow any action to be taken on this complaint!

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