Mueller has questioned and asked witnesses about even more Trump loyalists with Russian connections, one of whom also “funneled” money to the RNC and Republican Party.
Middle Eastern real estate investor Barrack oversaw the fundraising for the Trump inauguration. Several donors with foreign ties contributed huge sums topping out at $1 million dollars.
There are ties here to the Kremlin and to oil. Blavatnik, who gave $1 million to the Trump inaugural non-profit through his company Access Industries, is connected to Viktor Vekselberg, the Russian oligarch who is linked to Trump lawyer Michael Cohen.
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Vekselberg is one of the three Russian tycoons who was targeted by U.S. sanctions for engaging in “malign activities” around the world who may have lost a combined $7.5 billion from the sanctions according to Reuters April 12th calculations. The stakes are high for these players.
He is a Russian businessman and owner of recently sanctioned Renova Group. Vekselberg and Blavatnik were a part of the AAR, which was a consortium of four Russian oligarchs that had its assets bought by Rosneft, the Russia state-owned oil company.
Forbes reported in March of this year, “On Feb. 15, two famous billionaires – Viktor Vekselberg in Moscow, and his business partner, the globetrotting Leonard Blavatnik from the U.S., well-known founder of Access Industries in Russia – lost a motion to dismiss a $2 billion lawsuit. It is the third time a New York court ruled against them.”
Sounding very Trump-esque, these two Russian “To close watchers of oil battles gone bad in the Russian Federation, this is a bit of déjà vu; a story of multiple lawsuits in New York and London, harassment, and threats of incarceration.”
Trump’s personal lawyer, Marc Kasowitz, represented Columbus Nova, an investment firm with ties to Renova Group and Russian billionaire Viktor Vekselberg. Yes, this is the same company that made payments to Cohen after hiring him as a “business consultant.”
Intrater is the CEO of Columbus Nova and also a business associate of Vekselberg, with ties to Renova Group, and he also donated money to the Republican National Committee and the Republican Party.
So far, the Mueller probe has led to nearly 20 indictments. We are practically drowning in foreign corruption swamp here. It’s important to note that donating to an inaugural fund and a party is not illegal. The problems are if there was quid pro quo for the money and if there was conspiracy regarding the attack on the United States.
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