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Hacked emails list right-wing fundraiser partying with Russian fascists and oligarchs
A new database of hacked emails reveals attendance at a 2014 gala in Russia.
CASEY MICHEL at Think Progress
https://thinkprogress.org/hacked-emails-list-right-wing-fundraiser-partying-with-russian-fascists-and-oligarchs-c964038dcbad/
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Last month, a new leak site called Distributed Denial of Secrets went live, compiling a cache of hacked emails and documents of Russian officials, confidants of sanctioned Russian oligarchs, and those steering Russian interference efforts.
Among the revelations: A higher-up at the Bradley Foundation, one of the main financiers of right-wing groups in the U.S. including the Daily Caller News Foundation and anti-immigrant organizations apparently attended a notorious pro-family conference in Russia in 2014, held shortly after Russia began its invasion of Ukraine.
Dan Schmidt, who worked for decades at the Bradley Foundation, was serving as one of the foundations vice presidents in 2014. That same year, according to leaked emails, Russian operatives involved in cultivating the American religious right listed him as attending a swanky gala alongside Russian fascists like Alexander Dugin and now-sanctioned Russian oligarchs like Konstantin Malofeev. The emails indicate the gala also included Igor Shchegolev, who was then working as an adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Sergei Rudov, who helped host leaders of the National Rifle Association (NRA) during the gun groups notorious 2015 trip to Russia.
Neither Schmidt nor the Bradley Foundation responded to ThinkProgress questions.
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gratuitous
(82,849 posts)The emphasis on this story will NOT be the right-wingers hobnobbing with corrupt Russians, it will be "How did this e-mail come to light? Hacking e-mails is a serious matter! We can't just have people willy-nilly hacking e-mails and exposing them to public view. We will not be reporting on the substance of these e-mails until those responsible for their theft are apprehended and brought to justice."
Pachamama
(16,887 posts)Why do I feel like we would see some familiar names and faces?