Trump-Friendly Lawyers Join Legal Team of Ukraine's Firtash

Firtash is now residing in Vienna. The two business associates of Guiliani had one-way tickets to Vienna. Guiliani was scheduled to fly out to Vienna tonight. One has to wonder if this is a new plan of Putin's to mess with the 2020 election?
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-23/trump-friendly-lawyers-join-legal-team-of-ukraine-s-firtash

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Dmitry Firtash, a wealthy Ukrainian and onetime business partner of Paul Manafort who is facing extradition to the U.S. on corruption charges, has hired a legal team with close ties to President Donald Trump.

The lawyers retained by Firtash are Victoria Toensing and Joseph diGenova, according to representatives for Firtash and for the attorneys.

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Firtash wasn’t linked to Russian attempts to help Trump’s campaign in 2016. However, his U.S. lawyers were approached by Mueller’s team for information about Manafort, who did business with Firtash before he was chairman of Trump’s campaign in the summer of 2016.

In 2008, Manafort was part of an $850 million plan involving Firtash and Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska to purchase the Drake Hotel in Manhattan and convert it into a luxury property. The deal, which was to be financed in part by a Manafort-Deripaska vehicle called Pericles Emerging Market Partners, was never consummated.