July 14, 2017
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Russian Lawyer Reportedly Offered Dirt On DNC Just Days Before Document Dump (Chuck Ross, 07/14/2017, dAILY cALLER)
A former Soviet military intelligence officer told the Associated Press on Friday that a Russian lawyer he accompanied to a June 9, 2016, meeting at Trump Tower offered to provide information about illicit financial activity carried out by the Democratic National Committee.Nine days later, on June 18, Guccifer 2.0, the hacker believed to be a front for Russian spy agencies, dropped a bombshell. [...]Rinat Akhmethsin, the former Soviet agent and a lobbyist operating in Washington, D.C., told the Associated Press that he attended the meeting along with Natalia Veselnitskaya, a Russian lawyer.The pair were associated with the Human Rights Accountability Global Initiative Foundation, a small non-profit that aims to roll back a law that imposes sanctions on Russian criminals.Veselnitskaya and Trump Jr. have said that the Trump Tower meeting centered on the Magnitsky Act.But Akhmetshin said that Veselnitskaya brought a plastic folder full of printed-out documents to the meeting. Veselnitskaya's documents "detailed her claims about the contributions to the Democratic National Committee," AP reported.Akhmetshin said he did not know if the documents came from the Russian government but that he believes that Veselnitskaya left the information with the Trump team members.
Posted by Orrin Judd at July 14, 2017 7:44 PM