A Russian billionaire described in Justice Department documents as a “funder” for alleged Russian spy Maria Butina has been identified.

Butina told the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence during an interview in April that Konstantin Nikolaev, an energy investor, is the person she described as her financial backer in emails and Twitter exchanges with Alexander Torshin, the deputy head of Russia’s central bank, according to The Washington Post.

Nikolaev is a member of the board of American Ethane, a Houston-based energy company. And as The Post reports, his son, Andrey, was a volunteer for the Trump campaign.

https://dailycaller.com/2018/07/23/maria-butina-billionaire-funder/

Trump's lawyers waived privilege so they could speak freely about the tapes, now that they claim Cohen is separately speaking about them, the person said. The person said waiving the privilege was "inevitable" and that they "didn't know how it was coming out" but "knew Cohen was the source."

https://www.businessinsider.com/why-trump-lawyers-allowed-investigators-to-get-michael-cohen-tapes-2018-7

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New filing in United States v. Manafort:

Manafort response to motion exclude evidence or argument

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4616641-Response-to-motion.html

For the First Time, a Female Ebola Survivor Infects Others…a year later..

For the first time, scientists have found evidence that a woman can harbor the Ebola virus for more than a year and then infect others.

The discovery involved transmission within a Liberian family in the closing days of the West African epidemic that lasted from December 2014 to mid-2016. More than 28,600 people were infected and 11,325 died.

The episode raises new medical questions: Scientists do not know how the virus hid inside the woman for 13 months before re-emerging in lethal form.

https://www.wral.com/for-the-first-time-a-female-ebola-survivor-infects-others/17716292/