Lawyer Who Was Said to Have Dirt on Clinton Had Closer Ties to Kremlin Than She Let On
Source: NY Times
MOSCOW The Russian lawyer who met with Trump campaign officials in Trump Tower in June 2016 on the premise that she would deliver damaging information about Hillary Clinton has long insisted she is a private attorney, not a Kremlin operative trying to meddle in the presidential election.
But newly released emails show that in at least one instance two years earlier, the lawyer, Natalia V. Veselnitskaya, worked hand in glove with Russias chief legal office to thwart a Justice Department civil fraud case against a well-connected Russian firm.
Ms. Veselnitskaya also appears to have recanted her earlier denials of Russian government ties. During an interview to be broadcast Friday by NBC News, she acknowledged that she was not merely a private lawyer but a source of information for a top Kremlin official, Yuri Y. Chaika, the prosecutor general.
I am a lawyer, and I am an informant, she said. Since 2013, I have been actively communicating with the office of the Russian prosecutor general.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/27/us/natalya-veselnitskaya-trump-tower-russian-prosecutor-general.html
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NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)but, glad it has been made public.
rainin
(3,011 posts)dalton99a
(81,700 posts)MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)DetlefK
(16,423 posts)Prime real-estate in Moscow's best quarter, where also Putin lives? Bought by an average lawyer with an average salary? Oh please.
jpak
(41,760 posts)Lock Them UP!
Mr. Sparkle
(2,954 posts)BobTheSubgenius
(11,578 posts)...out comes the polonium.
Sophia4
(3,515 posts)associated with the prosecutor in Russia?
onecent
(6,096 posts)Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)no vetting process for these Russian operatives? They seem to enter this country any time they want.
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)C Moon
(12,226 posts)So, at first glance some of these traitors looks fine, but when the digging begins, the evil deeds surface.
Mr. Ected
(9,675 posts)Are about as entertaining as the Dog and Pony Show put on by Donald J Trump.
madville
(7,413 posts)She also obtained the info she was going to present to the Trump team from Glenn Simpson at Fusion GPS. It certainly is a tangled web.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-dossier-firm-also-supplied-info-used-meeting-russians-trump-n819526