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US banker with ties to Putins inner circle sought access to Trump transition: Sources
https://abcnews.go.com/beta-story-container/Politics/us-banker-ties-putins-circle-sought-access-trump/story?id=60521702
Nine days after Donald Trump won the presidency, as scores of supporters clamored for meetings with his transition team, the Hollywood producer of The Apprentice, Mark Burnett, reached out to one of Trumps closest advisers to see if he would sit down with a banker who has long held ties to Russia.
The banker, Robert Foresman, never got the role he was seeking with the fledgling Trump administration. But he has recently attracted the attention of congressional investigators as one more name on an expanding list of Americans with established ties inside the Kremlin who appears to have been seeking access to the newly elected presidents inner circle, according to three sources familiar with the matter.
Foresman, who is now vice chairman of the Swiss bank UBSs investment arm, lived for years in Moscow, where he led a $3 billion Russian investment fund and was touted by his new company as someone who maintains connections to Russian President Vladimir Putins inner circle. Reached by phone, Foresman declined to comment. Attorneys he has hired, including one in Washington who was hired to deal with the congressional probe, also declined to discuss the matter.
What is known about Foresmans efforts to meet with Trumps team during the post-election period in late 2016 stems from internal presidential inaugural committee emails reviewed by ABC News, testimony and court filings in an unrelated legal matter and three sources who had knowledge of Foresmans communications, but who would only talk about the subject on the condition that they not be named due the sensitivity of ongoing investigations.
The banker, Robert Foresman, never got the role he was seeking with the fledgling Trump administration. But he has recently attracted the attention of congressional investigators as one more name on an expanding list of Americans with established ties inside the Kremlin who appears to have been seeking access to the newly elected presidents inner circle, according to three sources familiar with the matter.
Foresman, who is now vice chairman of the Swiss bank UBSs investment arm, lived for years in Moscow, where he led a $3 billion Russian investment fund and was touted by his new company as someone who maintains connections to Russian President Vladimir Putins inner circle. Reached by phone, Foresman declined to comment. Attorneys he has hired, including one in Washington who was hired to deal with the congressional probe, also declined to discuss the matter.
What is known about Foresmans efforts to meet with Trumps team during the post-election period in late 2016 stems from internal presidential inaugural committee emails reviewed by ABC News, testimony and court filings in an unrelated legal matter and three sources who had knowledge of Foresmans communications, but who would only talk about the subject on the condition that they not be named due the sensitivity of ongoing investigations.
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Dear gawd. Just how many more people are linked to Russia?? (Original Post)
Roland99
Jan 2019
OP
All we have to do is look at who is orbiting this decaying dying orange sun and we'll get a lot
UniteFightBack
Jan 2019
#5
Delmette2.0
(4,157 posts)1. Every time we shake a tree, Russians fall out
I read this somewhere on DU, i think sometime in 2017.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)4. Ha. Good one!
shanny
(6,709 posts)2. "an international crime syndicate
masquerading as a government"
Interesting that Mark Burnett was the initial link--I've always thought he could have leaked/released damning Apprentice footage if he wished.
JI7
(89,240 posts)3. fuck mark burnett
UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)5. All we have to do is look at who is orbiting this decaying dying orange sun and we'll get a lot
of answers.
BSdetect
(8,995 posts)6. No worries, our IC is on to them ....wait....
Chiyo-chichi
(3,574 posts)7. Everything is Russia.