Posted by: Pft
Russiagate may be done but thats because it was defined improperly. Sometimes it helps to look back to get a big picture perspective
Starting in 1999, Putin enlisted two oligarchs Lev Leviev and Roman Abramovich, who would go on to become Chabad’s biggest patrons worldwide, to create the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia under the leadership of Chabad rabbi Berel Lazar, who would come to be known as “Putin’s rabbi.”
Roman Abramovich is the owner of the Chelsea Football Club of the English Premier League. He was a victor (along with Paul Manafort’s patron Oleg Deripaska) in the aluminum wars of the 1990s and reportedly the person who convinced Boris Yeltsin that Putin would be a proper successor.
Ivanka Trump is very close friends with Abramovich’s wife, Dasha Zhukova. Zhukova reportedly attended the inauguration as Ivanka’s personal guest.
Leviev is the one with the closest links to the Trumps and Israel.
It starts with Bayrock . This is the company that Donald Trump teamed up with to build his Trump Soho project. There were three main actors . One was convicted mob associate and FBI informant Felix Sater. Another was Tevfik Arif, a likely Russian intelligence connection who once was arrested by the Turks. The third was the late Tamir Sapir, another man with ties to Russian intelligence.
The late billionaire Tamir Sapir, was born in the Soviet state of Georgia .
Trump has called Sapir “a great friend.” In December 2007, he hosted the wedding of Sapir’s daughter, Zina, at Mar-a-Lago. The groom, Rotem Rosen, was the CEO of the American branch of Africa Israel, the Putin oligarch Leviev’s holding company, and known as Leviev’s right hand man.
As mentioned Leviev was one of two oligarch’s with who Putin had establish the “Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia” under the leadership of Chabad rabbi Berel Lazar, who would come to be known as ‘Putin’s rabbi.’” Sater, Sapier, Jared, Ivanka are all Chabad members and/or donors
Trump had business discussions in Moscow in 2013 about Moscow real estate projects with Agalarovs, Alex Sapir (son of Tamir Sapir, brother of Zina, and brother-in-law of Rotem Rosen.) and Rotem Rosen, a pair of New York-based Russians. This may also have been discussed during the June 2016 meeting in Trump Tower that was attended by Kushner, Manafort and Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer associated with Fusion GPS (Steele dossier) and the Leviev linked Prevezon.
Agalarovis is a Moscow-based property developer who had won major contracts from Putin’s government. He hosted Trump’s 2013 Miss Universe contest at his concert hall in Moscow. He orchestrated the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting and formed a new American shell company a month beforehand with the help of the Russian lawyer who attended the meeting.
In 2015, Kushner and his family business, Kushner Cos., bought a portion of the New York Times building on West 43rd Street from Russian /Israeli real estate billionaire Lev Leviev for $295M, where $285M was borrowed from Deutsche Bank to complete the transaction, despite the 666 albatross hanging over Kushners head.
Deutsche Bank and two companies tied to Leviev, Africa Israel Investments and Prevezon, have all recently been the subject of money laundering investigations. A laundering case against Prevezon was settled two months after Trump fired Bharara, with a $6M slap on the wrist settlement that raised some eyebrows.
As for 666, Kushner gets bailed out by Brookfield who has Qatar as its 2nd largest investor. But consider that at the same time they did this deal they also acquired Westinghouse Electric, a nuclear power company. Now members of the Trump administration propose selling nuclear power plants to Saudi Arabia. Interesting.
Can’t seem to find a Putin/Russian oligarch connection although that’s probably due to the fact you can’t use anonymous shell companies to buy property in NYC any longer due to new rules by FinCEN
But so many conflict of interests here, Israel, China, Saudis, Russian oligarchs, etc., and virtually no oversight or transparency. With twitter being used to manipulate markets one has to imagine rampant insider trading as well (hey guys, my tweets going out at 3 pm, get your trades in and remember my 5%).
The Prevezon Case was an attempt by the criminal liar Bill Browder and Preet Bharara to create a precedent in US case law, to allow Magnitsky Act type confiscation of Russian assets within the US on the word of Browder and/or his helpers at the CSCE. Denis Katsyv was a nobody, Browder created a false money laundering trail, where Katsyv received a whole $800,000 out of the so-called $240 million Magnitsky Russian Tax Fraud. Browder’s big lie was that his “lawyer” Magnitsky was arrested for accusing Russian tax inspectors of perpetrated the fraud. In fact, Browder and his tax accountant Magnitsky bankrupted his own shell company, and did the theft himself. After Magnitsky was arrested after a three year investigation in Oct 2008, Browder was safe with his loot in London, and he left Magnitsky to rot, dying of pancreatitis. He was not “killed” by “Putin”, Browder’s tax accountant had took his secrets to the grave, a star witness against Browder was dead.
Browder and his State Department lawyer Jonathan Winer, Steele’s handler, Steele himself, Rob Goldstone MI-6, setup the Trump Tower meeting to get a “Russian meeting” for the Steele dossier. Browder’s angle was to discredit the Katsyv defence team after they served three subpoenas, running away three times, ironically he was served by Glen Simpson. Simpson had been working for Baker-Hostetler on this case for three years. Veselnitskaya was Katsyv’s Russian lawyer. It was true that Simpson and Veselnitskaya did meet on the morning of the Trump Tower meeting – for Browder’s first appeal to quash his damning deposition, in New York.
Browder spun the rest. I can’t prove this, but I strongly believe Browder had Simpson hired by the DNC to work for Steele to muddy the water. Veselnitskaya has testified that she never spoke to Simpson about the Trump Tower meeting before of after. Simpson has denied any knowledge of the Trump Tower meeting, and despite the best efforts from Fox News and Devin Nunes, his story stands up.
Steele got his “Russian Meeting, Browder got to discredit Baker-Hostetler, Katsyv had to change US lawyers, and the case was “settled” with Katsyv cleared from “taking Magnitsky money” for $6 million. Katsyv had the funds set aside in the Netherlands on order of the Dept of Justice, the DOJ released the funds – then Browder refroze them in some bogus suit in the Netherlands. Katsyv could not pay, they confiscated Katsyv’s New York real estate,and sold it for the payment. I wonder who bought the property?
Browder is a very nasty piece of work.
The Deposition of William Browder, 15 April 2015, US vs Prevezon Holdings, SDNY.
https://100r.org/media/2017/10/Browder-Deposition-April-15-2015.pdf
Videotaped Deposition: This link begins at P104.
https://bretthar123.medium.com/the-truth-about-the-trump-tower-meeting-and-bill-browder-7049f9d03475
Everything you need to know about Browder can be found on the site of award winning journalist Lucy Komisar https://thekomisarscoop.com
Dr. Brett Harris,
Melbourne, Australia
Correction: Lucy Komisar
https://www.thekomisarscoop.com