Radical Dem Worked For Russian Lawyer Who Met With Trump, Jr.

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Radical left-wing icon former California Democratic Rep. Ron Dellums
was a hired lobbyist for Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Russian lawyer
who met with Donald Trump Jr. June 9, 2016, the Daily Caller News
Foundation Investigative Group has learned.

Dellums, who represented liberal San Francisco and Oakland, Calif.,
is a long-time darling of left-wing political activists. He served
13 terms in Congress as an African-American firebrand and proudly
called himself a socialist. He retired in 1996.

The former congressman is one of several high-profile Democratic
partisans who was on Veselnitskaya’s payroll, working to defeat a
law that is the hated object of a personal vendetta waged by Russian
President Vladimir Putin.

A national outcry has erupted in the establishment media about Trump
Jr.’s meeting with Veselnitskaya. But there has been little focus on
the Democrats who willingly served for years on her payroll helping
to wage a Russian-led lobby campaign against the law. Congress
passed the legislation, the Magnitsky Act, in response to the murder
of Sergei Magnistky, a Russian lawyer who alleged corruption and
human rights violations against numerous Russian officials.

According to a complaint filed to the Department of Justice Foreign
Agents Registration Act division last July, Dellums failed to
register as a foreign agent representing a Russian-driven effort led
by Veselnitskaya to repeal the Magnitsky Act.

The act was a bipartisan bill enacted in December 2012 intended to
punish Russian officials responsible for the death of Magnitsky, who
died in a Moscow prison in 2009. President Barack Obama signed the
act into law.

The legislation bars 18 Russians from entering the United States
because of the lawyer’s death. Putin retaliated by freezing American
adoptions of Russian children and barred 18 Americans from entering
Russia.

Magnitsky was a tax lawyer with the Hermitage Fund, a London-based
firm that invested in Russia. The tax lawyer uncovered a $230
million scheme allegedly run by Russian mobsters. He informed
Russian officials of the corruption.

Instead of investigating Prevezon Holdings Ltd., a Russian-owned
firm implicated in the scandal, Russian officials arrested
Magnitsky. He died in prison in 2009 after being tortured and killed
in prison, according to the Russian Presidential Human Rights
Commission.

Prevezon was owned by Denis Katsyv who, along with Veselnitskaya,
created the Human Rights Accountability Global Initiative Foundation
in the U.S. The foundation was designed to repeal the Magnitsky Act
using a lobbying team that included Dellums.

This is not the first time Dellums’ advanced the interests of
dictatorships. As a congressman, he was fond of Cuban President
Fidel Castro, and he supported Cuba’s military intervention in
Africa.

Dellums also sued President George W. Bush’s 1991 military effort to
liberate Kuwait after Saddam Hussein invaded the country.

The former congressman is only one of a notable team of partisan
Democrats Veselnitskaya hired to defeat the Magnitsky Act.

Glenn Simpson, founder of Fusion GPS, also joined the Russian lawyer
and “worked with her on a legal case for years,” according to The
Washington Post.

Fusion GPS is the firm that reportedly commissioned a phony
“dossier” authored by former British spy Christopher Steele that
alleged salacious and largely erroneous charges about President
Donald Trump.

Most news organizations reject the dossier as dubious at best, but
it eventually was published by BuzzFeed 10 days before Trump was
inaugurated.

Christopher Cooper, the founder and CEO of Potomac Square Group,
also joined Veselnitskaya. His company does campaign work for
foreign principles and foreign governments including the governments
of Azerbaijan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, UAE, and
Nigeria as well as Russia. The company’s clients have included
Democratic California Gov. Jerry Brown and Democratic presidential
hopeful Vermont Gov. Howard Dean.

Potomac Square also partnered with Dean’s campaign manger Joe Trippi
on behalf of the families of radical Islamic terrorists held at
Guantanamo Bay.

The Senate Committee on the Judiciary will convene a hearing next
week on the Russian government’s opposition to the Magnitsky Act.
Witnesses are expected to include, among others, William Browder,
the founder of the Hermitage Fund.

TheDCNF contacted Dellums’ lobby firm but received no reply to
inquiries about his role with the Russian lawyer.


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