I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA - NO DEALS, NO LOANS, NO NOTHING."
~Donald Trump
Who Is Marc Kasowitz?
President Trump’s lawyer for the Russia investigation
doesn’t have much criminal-defense experience.
But he does provide something even more valuable
to his client: loyalty.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/marc-kasowitz-trump-russia/528147/
One of President Donald Trump’s personal attorneys was just
named a lead attorney to defend Russia’s largest state-run bank
against claims that it helped a granite-mining company raid
and kill off its main competitor in the Russian market.
Marc E. Kasowitz is representing OJSC Sberbank of Russia,
which is accused in US federal court of conspiring with
granite company executives — including Russia’s former
minister of economy and trade — in what the plaintiffs
say amounts to a “textbook case of Russian corporate
raiding.”
https://www.buzzfeed.com/anthonycormier/trumps-longtime-lawyer-is-defending-russias-biggest-bank?utm_term=.ctYnr4kEG#.lxQzLlg1R
The majority shareholder of Sberbank is the Central Bank
of the Russian Federation, owning 50% +1 voting share
of Sberbank's voting shares.
The President and Chief Executive Officer is Herman Gref,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sberbank_of_Russia
The last time Donald Trump made an appearance in Moscow was
November 2013 for the Miss Universe contest he famously owned.
Then another, more private, invitation arrived: Come to Nobu
to meet more than a dozen of Russia’s top businessmen, including
Herman Gref, the chief executive officer of state-controlled
Sberbank PJSC, Russia’s biggest bank.
Gref, who was President Vladimir Putin’s economy minister
from 2000 to 2007, organized the meeting together with
Aras Agalarov, the founder of Crocus Group, one of the
country’s largest real-estate companies, which was hosting
the beauty pageant at one of its concert halls.
“There was a good feeling from the meeting,” Gref said in
an interview. “He’s a sensible person, very lively in his
responses, with a positive energy and a good attitude
toward Russia.”
Trump’s two-hour gathering at Nobu, a 15-minute walk from
the Kremlin, suggests that the president-elect’s circle
of contacts in Russia is wider than previously reported
and includes a close confidant of Putin’s.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-21/the-day-trump-came-to-moscow-oligarchs-miss-universe-and-nobu
Jared Kushner had a previously undisclosed meeting with the
CEO of 'the bank that financed Vladimir Putin’s grandest
ambitions'
President Donald Trump's son-in-law and top adviser,
Jared Kushner, met with the CEO of Russia's state-owned
Vnesheconombank in December 2016, The New York Times
reported on Monday.
The meeting — which had not previously been disclosed
and came on the heels of Kushner's meeting with Russia's
ambassador to the US, Sergey Kislyak, at Trump Tower —
recently caught the eye of the Senate Intelligence Committee,
which is investigating Russia's interference in the 2016
election and whether any members of Trump's campaign were
complicit.
Kislyak reportedly orchestrated the meeting between
Kushner and Vnesheconombank CEO Sergey N. Gorkov, who was
appointed by Russian President Vladimir Putin in January 2016
as part of a restructuring of the bank's management team,
Bloomberg reported last year.
Gorkov, who graduated from the Federal Security Service (FSB)
Academy of Russia in 1994, was the vice-president of
Russia's state-controlled Sberbank before joining
Vnesheconombank.
Gorkov's former boss at Sberbank was Herman Gref, who
recommended Gorkov for the Vnesheconombank position in a
meeting with Putin in early 2016. "Gref preferred just
to send one of his 'troops' to VEB for a rescue operation,"
a Russian official told Reuters at the time.
http://www.businessinsider.com/jared-kushner-russia-vnesheconombank-ceo-putin-2017-3
EXCLUSIVE NEWS MAY 25 2017, 6:36 PM ET
Jared Kushner Now Under FBI Scrutiny in Russia Probe,
Say Officials
Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law and one of his
senior advisers, has come under FBI scrutiny in the
Russia investigation, multiple U.S. officials told
NBC News.
Kushner met at least once in December with the Russian
ambassador, Sergey Kislyak, and he also met last year
with a Russian banker, Sergey Gorkov.
Gorkov is chairman of VneshEconomBank, a Russian
government-owned institution that has been under
U.S. sanctions since July 2014. Gorkov studied at the
training school for the FSB, one of Russia's
intelligence services.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/jared-kushner-now-under-fbi-scrutiny-russia-probe-say-officials-n764826
Jan. 11, 2017
I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA - NO DEALS, NO LOANS, NO NOTHING."
~Donald Trump
Jan. 16, 2017
“I have nothing to do with Russia. To the best of my knowledge, no
person that I deal with does.”
~Donald Trump
Feb. 7, 2017
"I don't know Putin, have no deals in Russia, and the haters
are going crazy"
~Donald Trump
Feb. 16, 2017
"Russia is a ruse. I have nothing to do with Russia. Haven't
made a phone call to Russia in years. Don't speak to people
from Russia."
~Donald Trump
~ chanting....
LOCK HIM UP! LOCK HIM UP! LOCK HIM UP!
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