Welcome to DU!
The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards.
Join the community:
Create a free account
Support DU (and get rid of ads!):
Become a Star Member
Latest Breaking News
General Discussion
The DU Lounge
All Forums
Issue Forums
Culture Forums
Alliance Forums
Region Forums
Support Forums
Help & Search
General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSergey Kislyak received $120,000 ten days after the election of Donald Trump.
Newly Uncovered Russian Payments Are A Focus Of Election Investigation
US authorities are poring over hundreds of newly uncovered payments from Russian diplomatic accounts. Among them are transactions by former ambassador Sergey Kislyak 10 days after the 2016 presidential election and a blocked $150,000 cash withdrawal five days after the inauguration.
Officials investigating the Kremlins interference in the 2016 US presidential election are scrutinizing newly uncovered financial transactions between the Russian government and people or businesses inside the United States.
Records exclusively reviewed by BuzzFeed News also show years of Russian financial activity within the US that bankers and federal law enforcement officials deemed suspicious, raising concerns about how the Kremlins diplomats operated here long before the 2016 election.
Special counsel Robert Muellers team, charged with investigating Russian election interference and possible collusion by the Trump campaign, is examining these transactions and others by Russian diplomatic personnel, according to a US official with knowledge of the inquiry. The special counsel has broad authority to investigate any matters that may arise from his investigation, and the official said Muellers probe is following leads on suspicious Russian financial activity that may range far beyond the election.
The transactions reveal:
One of the people at the center of the investigation, the former Russian ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak, received $120,000 ten days after the election of Donald Trump. Bankers flagged it to the US government as suspicious in part because the transaction, marked payroll, didnt fit prior pay patterns.
Five days after Trumps inauguration, someone attempted to withdraw $150,000 cash from the embassys account but the embassys bank blocked it. Bank employees reported the attempted transaction to the US government because it was abnormal activity for that account.
From March 8 to April 7, 2014, bankers flagged nearly 30 checks for a total of about $370,000 to embassy employees, who cashed the checks as soon as they received them, making it virtually impossible to trace where the money went. Bank officials noted that the employees had not received similar payments in the past, and that the transactions surrounded the date of a critical referendum on whether parts of Crimea should secede from Ukraine and join Russia one of Vladimir Putins top foreign policy concerns and a flash point with the West.
Over five years, the Russian Cultural Centre an arm of the government that sponsors classes and performances and is based in Washington, DC sent $325,000 in checks that banking officials flagged as suspicious. The amounts were not consistent with normal payroll checks and some of the transactions fell below the $10,000 threshold that triggers a notice to the US government.
The Russian embassy in Washington, DC, sent more than $2.4 million to small home-improvement companies controlled by a Russian immigrant living not far from there. Between 2013 and March 2017, that contractors various companies received about 600 such payments, earmarked for construction jobs at Russian diplomatic compounds. Bankers told the Treasury they did not think those transactions were related to the election but red-flagged them because the businesses seemed too small to have carried out major work on the embassy and because the money was cashed quickly or wired to other accounts.
MORE:
https://www.buzzfeed.com/jasonleopold/newly-uncovered-russian-payments-are-a-focus-of-election?utm_term=.nxWJ4aR2J&bftwnews#.jrde5bEme
Link to tweet
InfoView thread info, including edit history
TrashPut this thread in your Trash Can (My DU » Trash Can)
BookmarkAdd this thread to your Bookmarks (My DU » Bookmarks)
8 replies, 2331 views
ShareGet links to this post and/or share on social media
AlertAlert this post for a rule violation
PowersThere are no powers you can use on this post
EditCannot edit other people's posts
ReplyReply to this post
EditCannot edit other people's posts
Rec (31)
ReplyReply to this post
8 replies
= new reply since forum marked as read
Highlight:
NoneDon't highlight anything
5 newestHighlight 5 most recent replies
Sergey Kislyak received $120,000 ten days after the election of Donald Trump. (Original Post)
kpete
Jan 2018
OP
If this keeps up. That tubby motherfucker is going to find himself on the receiving end of
Guy Whitey Corngood
Jan 2018
#6
BumRushDaShow
(129,307 posts)1. Follow the money. nt
malaise
(269,144 posts)2. Get thee to the greatest page
NOW
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)3. Moving along .... this is getting more interesting by the day.
parkerMcDavis
(58 posts)4. Wow, lets see them explain this one.
angrychair
(8,732 posts)5. Great article but very key info missing
He received $120,000, great, from WHO we know the receiver but not the sender, that is the hinge of this event: who sent the payment to him?
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,501 posts)6. If this keeps up. That tubby motherfucker is going to find himself on the receiving end of
a polonium cocktail.
lark
(23,138 posts)7. Putin and his fat toy drumpf are really going to hate this.
Have a feeling the pressure on Mueller is going to ratchet up exponentially and quickly.
not fooled
(5,801 posts)8. Election-stealing bonuses
Trickle down at work!