Russian Lawyer From Trump Tower Meeting Charged In Money Laundering Case

A Russian lawyer and Fusion GPS associate who attended the infamous Trump Tower meeting has been charged with obstructing justice by making a "misleading declaration" in a separate money laundering case, according to the Washington Post.

Natalia Veselnitskaya - a Trump-hating fan of the late John McCain - was initially denied entry into the United States, only to be allowed into the country by former Attorney General Loretta Lynch under "extraordinary circumstances" so she could represent Fusion GPS client Prevezon Holdings in a civil case brought by the US attorney's office in Manhattan.

Prevezon is owned by Russian and Israeli businessman Denis Katsyv, who settled the case for $5.9 million in fines after he was busted in a $230 million embezzlement and money laundering scheme reportedly sanctioned by Russian Officials, in which large sums of money were stolen from the Russian government and invested in New York real estate. Some of the missing funds were traced to Prevezon.

The department had alleged in a civil complaint that a Russian criminal organization ran an elaborate tax refund scheme, stealing the identities of targeted companies and filing sham lawsuits to incur fake losses for refund purposes.

Those involved made about $230 million in tax refunds, prosecutors said, and filtered the money through shell companies and eventually into Prevezon, a Cyprus-based real estate corporation. Prevezon, prosecutors said, laundered the funds into real estate, including by investing in high end commercial property and luxury apartments in Manhattan. -Washington Post

The alleged fraud was uncovered by attorneys hired by the victim firms to investigate, one of whom was deceased Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who died in custody.

Veselnitskaya was also a central figure in the Trump Tower meeting arranged by Fusion GPS associate Rob Goldstone - who admits "it appeared to me to have been a bait and switch of somebody who appeared to be lobbying for what I now understood to be the Magnitsky act," which sanctions Russian officials thought to be involved in the Magnitsky death.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-01-08/trump-hating-russian-lawyer-trump-tower-meeting-charged-money-laundering-case

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Democrat Gavin Newsom was sworn in as governor of the nation’s most populous state on Monday night.

Newsom, 51, will succeed term-limited Democratic incumbent Jerry Brown.

In his speech Newsom slammed President Trump’s immigration policies and vowed to give sanctuary to “all who seek it.”

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US Downgraded Status of EU – But Did Not Formally Announce It

The Trump Administration downgraded the status of the European Union in the US and did not formally announce it.

This is the maximum insult in terms of diplomatic procedure and protocol.

The EU delegation was just informed about the change and they are absolutely livid.

The relationship between Brussels and Washington has gotten far worse.

The protests from Brussels have commenced but to no avail.

This amounts to a total demotion for the EU ambassador to the US — David O’Sullivan.

Some commentators say this has been a year in the making with Trump castigating the EU and taking a shot across their bow.

He imposed tariffs on European steel and aluminum and threatens to do the same on their automobile exports.

This would cost them dearly; especially the Germans.

Earlier, the EU slammed Trump’s favorite (Ted Malloch) to be his ambassador to the Union and some even tried to make him persona non grata.

That translates as “not welcomed”.

It was an insult to Trump and his worldview.

Trump has been very vocal in his criticism of supra-nationalism, which runs counter to his notions of national sovereignty.

Blatant EU anti-Americanism and protectionism has also caught his attention, if not his ire.

Secretary of State Pompeo questioned the value of EU multilateralism in a very pointed speech in Brussels in December that got lots of attention in the European press.

It was not received well.

The new “downgrade” to IO status –meaning international organization status, is a huge slap in the face at the globalist entity that has ambitions to rival the US.

The EU however, truthfully, is NOT a government.

Nor is a nation state.

It is a member organization.

This all came ringing home at the Bush ’41 funeral when the EU was called out last, after all other REAL countries in attendance.

The EU is angry to put it lightly.

In Trump world however, they are having the last laugh!

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/01/breaking-us-downgraded-status-of-eu-but-did-not-formally-announce-it/