As an anon in a PB mentioned, how about "Do you have your [Taxes] filled in?" ('Tis the season.) Bill BROWDER.
Thorough piece of Jan 10, 2018 explains what Corrupt MSM has been so protective of. Hard to choose which snippets to post, sorry so long. MUCH more detail at link.
One of the key but still little known figures in the ongoing hysteria concerning alleged Russian influence … in the U.S. is William Browder.
Browder got rich in Moscow running a hedge fund and was friendly towards Vladimir Putin's government until he was accused of defrauding it of significant tax revenues.
To get a fuller portrait of Browder, I'm publishing this piece by Lucy Komisar, a longtime financial reporter. It originally ran last fall at 100 Reporters and at Lucy's website, thekomisarscoop.com, but the story it tells is generally unavailable to an American public being bombarded with a flow of news about Russian meddling, much of it badly informed.
…by 2012 Browder had convinced key U.S. politicians that Magnitsky was his lawyer, hired to investigate the theft of three of Browder's companies and jailed by corrupt Russian authorities, who engineered his death in prison.
Comment: Magnitsky … never presented evidence of official corruption to the authorities, as Browder alleges; he was interrogated over his potential involvement in Browder's theft.
A 100Reporters investigation, published in 2014, illustrated how Russian titanium company, Avisma, in which Browder was an investor, used an Isle of Man shell company to "buy" titanium at fake low prices and sell it abroad at higher market prices, cheating both minority share-holders and Russian tax authorities. A lawsuit showed Browder knew that was the business plan.
According to corporate documents, Browder's holding company, Hermitage Capital Management, was built on corporate registrations authored by the Mossack Fonseca law firm.
That firm is the source of more than one million documents made public by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists in its Panama Papers investigation, involving assets hidden through the use of shell companies and secret offshore accounts. Its disclosures have led to resignations by government officials worldwide, criminal investigations and charges of corruption against bureaucrats and business leaders.
It is the theft of the three companies that ties Browder to the controversial Trump, Jr. meeting. In 2007, shell companies that had once been owned by Browder were used to claim a $230 million tax refund based on trumped-up financial loses…
About five years later, Browder went after a company he said had gotten money laundered in the tax refund fraud. He persuaded the Justice Department to bring charges in 2013 in New York against Prevezon, a Russian real estate investment firm, and others. Browder accused Prevezon of receiving $1.9 million from the tax refund fraud. …
That New York lawsuit is what brought Prevezon's Russian lawyer, Nataliya Veselnitskaya, to the United States several times in 2016, including to the June 2016 meeting with Trump Jr. …
Veselnitskaya says the Prevezon suit was a distraction Browder used to cover up his own tax evasion and - she claims - collusion in the tax refund fraud. She bases her accusation in part on the role of Magnitsky. She has lobbied against the Magnitsky Act, deriding it as Browder's way of protecting himself from Russian legal trouble.
Browder declined repeated requests for an interview about the Russian charges, his time as an investor in Russia, and his campaigns for the Magnitsky Act. Browder went so far as to have the author of this article banned from a public talk he gave at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, New Jersey, in December 2016.
But this summer, in sworn testimony before the U.S. Senate's Judiciary Committee, Browder made statements that appear to contradict his testimony in the Prevezon case…
The Browder family home in Princeton, New Jersey, is registered by a Mossack Fonseca shell, Pepperdine Holdings Ltd. Browder's $11-million vacation home in Aspen is also "owned" by a shell registered in an agent's name. The US taxes offshore earnings. In 1998, Browder traded his US citizenship for one in the UK, which does not.
https://www.sott.net/article/373799-Bill-Browder-Criminal-con-man-liar-Magnitsky-Act-agitator-and-the-man-who-made-Russiagate-possible
POTUS/PUTIN Presser:
Browder comments begin at 19:00 mark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7qAfwjAYg0