A Lobbyist At The Trump Tower Meeting Received Half A Million Dollars In Suspicious Payments
Source: BuzzFeed News
A bank flagged transactions, including large cash deposits, made before and after Rinat Akhmetshin attended the 2016 Trump Tower meeting.
A Russian-born lobbyist who attended the controversial Trump Tower meeting in June 2016 received a series of suspicious payments totaling half a million dollars before and after the encounter.
Documents reviewed by BuzzFeed News show that Rinat Akhmetshin, a Soviet military officer turned Washington lobbyist, deposited large, round-number amounts of cash in the months preceding and following the meeting, where a Russian lawyer offered senior Trump campaign officials dirt on Hillary Clinton.
The lobbyist also received a large payment that bank investigators deemed suspicious from Denis Katsyv, whose company Prevezon Holdings was accused by the US Justice Department of laundering the proceeds of a $230 million Russian tax fraud.
The Trump Tower meeting and those who attended it have become a focus of special counsel Robert Muellers inquiry into whether the presidents campaign colluded with Russia to interfere in the 2016 election. As part of that inquiry, banks were asked to pull financial information on the meeting attendees, and investigators at Wells Fargo handed over documents on Akhmetshin to the US Treasury in 2017. Those records were passed to Mueller's team, but Peter Carr, a spokesperson for the special counsel, declined to say whether the transactions are under investigation. Congressional investigators also requested the financial information from the Treasury Department.
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MelissaB
(16,420 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,202 posts)Roger Stone?
dhol82
(9,353 posts)Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)oldsoftie
(12,555 posts)erronis
(15,302 posts)And several of these resources are being built, both within this government as well as lots of investigative groups, as well as the russian and koch-style enterprises (so they can reap their unjust rewards.)
When this is ever wrapped up, if it will ever be, the threads and the collusion and the lying exposed will be monumental.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)and thus the GOP betrayed America.
* per ronald freaking reagan
neohippie
(1,142 posts)Prevezon was also the company being investigated for money laundering by Phreet Bharara when he was fired by Trump and that case got a settlement favorable to the Russian company mysteriously just days before it was to go to court