Shiff's evidence is mostly the Trump Tower meeting that was orchestrated by Fusion GPS with Natalia Veselnitskaya who had zero dirt on Clinton.
She was only able to gain entry to the US because Loretta Lynch issued her a special visa under "extraordinary circumstances".
Lynch said she "does not have any personal knowledge of Ms. Veselnitskaya"s travel."
After Lynch"s DOJ allowed Veselnitskaya into the country to participate in a lawsuit and nothing more, she had the now infamous meeting at Trump Tower, met with current and former lawmakers from both parties, and was spotted in primo front-row seating at a House Foreign Affairs committee hearing on Russia.
What an interesting trip for Ms. Veselnitskaya...
http://thefringenewsinfo.blogspot.com/2017/07..._2303.html
Veselnitskaya and her colleagues misrepresented who they were and who they worked for.
“Specifically, we have learned that the person who sought the meeting is associated with Fusion GPS, a firm which according to public reports, was retained by Democratic operatives to develop opposition research on the President and which commissioned the phony Steele dossier.” -Mark Corallo
The lying bitch has now been charged with obstruction of justice tied to a money laundering case in New York.
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan announced the single criminal count against the attorney, Natalia Veselnitskaya, on Tuesday.
The allegation in the indictment suggests she has close ties to the Russian government — something she has previously denied in the context of the special counsel's Russia investigation.
The case stems from legal work Veselnitskaya was doing for Prevezon Holdings. Prosecutors allege the company received and laundered millions of dollars of proceeds as part of a complex Russian tax refund scheme that defrauded Russian taxpayers out of more than $200 million. The U.S. government was seeking to recover millions of dollars' worth of property, much of it tied up in New York real estate, on the ground that it was connected to the scheme.
The 19-page indictment against Veselnitskaya alleges that while representing Prevezon, she submitted "false and deceptive declarations" to a federal judge in New York City.
Veselnitskaya submitted to the court a declaration that she presented as the investigative findings of the Russian government, the indictment says.
But prosecutors allege that she helped draft the supposed independent findings "in secret cooperation with a senior Russian prosecutor."
"Fabricating evidence — submitting false and deceptive declarations to a federal judge — in an attempt to affect the outcome of pending litigation not only undermines the integrity of the judicial process, but it threatens the ability of our courts and our government to ensure that justice is done," the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, Geoffrey S. Berman, said in a statement.
This is not the first time that Veselnitskaya has attracted the attention of U.S. investigators.
She has come under scrutiny for her role in a now-infamous meeting in June 2016 with Donald Trump Jr., Paul Manafort and Jared Kushner. T he sit-down at Trump Tower was arranged on the pretext that Veselnitskaya had dirt to offer on Trump's campaign opponent, Hillary Clinton.
Participants say nothing came of their conversation. But the meeting has emerged as an important moment in the broader Russia investigation.
https://www.npr.org/2019/01/08/683238650/russ...aundering-
FusionGPS co-founder Glenn Simpson is key figure in Russia-Trump collusion narrative
Shady Research Firm Fusion GPS Behind Fake Trump Dossier WAS BEING PAID BY DNC AND RUSSIANS!
“...debunked dossier was a hit piece on Trump with outrageous stories about his encounters with Russian prostitutes.”
“The fake dossier was taken seriously by the highest levels of our intelligence community along with our media, despite obvious signs that the firm behind it was tied to Russia.”
GPS Fusion Founder Behind Debunked Dossier Was on Payroll of Russian Lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/07/confi...nc-russia/
"According to Brower, Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Russian lawyer who met with Donald Trump Jr. at Trump Tower, also “hired Glenn Simpson of the firm Fusion GPS to conduct a sear campaign” against him."
The Trump Tower meeting was a dirty trick to set up Donald Trump Jr.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/josh-rogi...fb60f8c9e0
“Fusion GPS hired British intelligence agent Christopher Steele shortly after Veselnitskaya’s meeting with Trump Jr. “
Glenn Simpson, boss of firm behind anti-Trump dossier to plead the Fifth at congressional hearing
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jul/...ssier-ple/
FusionGPS Founder cancels Congressional testimony
http://www.pacificpundit.com/2017/07/13/glenn...testimony/
Research Firm Behind Trump Dossier Is Refusing To Answer Senate Committee’s Questions
“The FBI, under former Director James Comey]...made an informal agreement in October to pay ( using our tax dollars ) Steele for future research on Trump.”
http://dailycaller.com/2017/04/13/research-fi...questions/
Who is the mystery informant behind the Trump-Russia dossier?
Sergei Millian is president of the Russian American Chamber of Commerce, at an energy forum in Moscow.
In June, a Belarusian-American businessman who goes by the name Sergei Millian shared some tantalising claims about Donald Trump.
Trump had a long-standing relationship with Russian officials, Millian told an associate, and those officials were now feeding Trump damaging information about his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton. Millian said that the information provided to Trump had been “very helpful.”
Unbeknownst to Millian, however, his conversation was not confidential. His associate passed on what he had heard to a former British intelligence officer who had been hired by Trump’s political opponents to gather information about the Republican’s ties to Russia.
The allegations by Millian — whose role was first reported by the Wall Street Journal and has been confirmed by The Washington Post — were central to the dossier compiled by the former spy, Christopher Steele. While the dossier has not been verified and its claims have been denied by Trump, Steele’s document said that Millian’s assertions had been corroborated by other sources, including in the Russian government and former intelligence sources.
The most explosive allegation that the dossier says originally came from Millian is the claim that Trump had hired prostitutes at the Moscow Ritz-Carlton and that the Kremlin has kept evidence of the encounter.
By his own evolving statements, Sergei Millian is either a shrewd businessman with high-level access to both Trump’s inner circle and the Kremlin, or a bystander unwittingly caught up in a global controversy.
An examination of Millian’s career shows he is a little of both. His case lays bare the challenge facing the FBI as it investigates Russia’s alleged attempts to manipulate the American political system and whether Trump associates participated.
It also illustrates why the Trump administration remains unable to shake the Russia story. While some of the unproven claims attributed in the dossier to Millian are bizarre and outlandish, there are also indications that he had contacts with Trump’s circle.
Millian told several people that during the campaign and presidential transition he was in touch with George Papadopoulos, a campaign foreign policy adviser, according to a person familiar with the matter. Millian is among Papadopoulos’s nearly 240 Facebook friends.
Trump aides vehemently reject Millian’s claims to have had close contact with Trump or high-level access to the president’s company.
Millian did not answer a list of detailed questions about his interactions with Trump and his role in the Steele dossier, instead responding by email with lengthy general defences of Trump’s election as “God’s will” and complaining that inquiries about his role are evidence of a “witch hunt” and “McCarthyism.”
“Any falsifications, deceit and baseless allegations directed against any US President is damaging to the national security interests of the United States,” he wrote in one email. “Publishing slanderous stories about the President’s decency and offensive material about the first family is malicious propaganda and a threat to the national security in order to destabilise the integrity of the United States of America and stir civil disorder aiming at reducing its political influence in the world.”
In late January, Millian appeared on Russian television, where he denied knowing information that could be damaging to Trump. “I want to say that I don’t have any compromising information, neither in Russia nor in the United States, nor could I have,” he said, speaking in Russian. “Without a doubt it is a blatant lie and an effort of some people — it’s definitely a group of people — to portray our president in a bad light using my name.”
The dossier, decried by Trump as “phony stuff” and “fake news” and derided by Russian President Vladimir Putin as “rubbish,” consists of a series of reports compiled by Steele over the course of several months before the election.
Millian, identified in different portions of the dossier as “Source D” and “Source E,” is described as a “close associate of Trump. ”
In addition to the salacious allegations that gained widespread attention, the dossier attributed other claims to Millian.
For instance, Steele wrote that Millian asserted that there was a “well developed conspiracy of cooperation between Trump and Russian leadership,” claiming the relationship was managed for Trump by former campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
A Manafort spokesman said “every word in the dossier about Paul Manafort is a lie.”
Some of those who know Millian described him as more of a big-talking schmoozer than a globe-trotting interlocutor. They say he’s a self-promoter with a knack for getting himself on television — like the time he appeared on a 2013 episode of the Bravo reality show Million Dollar Listing, where he attempted to broker a sale with a Russian-speaking client who agreed to pay $7 million in cash for a luxury New York unit.
“He’s an opportunist. If he sees an opportunity, he would go after it,” said Tatiana Osipova, who was a neighbour of Millian’s when he lived in Atlanta and who in 2006 helped him found a trade group, the Russian American Chamber of Commerce in the USA.
Osipova now lives in St. Petersburg but has remained in touch with Millian. “He’s a fun guy, a smart guy. But always talking. He talks so much s—-.”
Millian’s original name was Siarhei Kukuts, but those who know him say he changed it because he wanted something that sounded more elegant.
He told ABC News in July that he changed his name to honor his grandmother, whose last name he said was Millianovich. He has also at times gone by the name Sergio Millian.
“My general impression of him was that he just wanted to be important. Nobody really knew what he or the chamber were doing, but he presented himself with grandeur,” said Nadia Diskavets, a New York photographer who was also a founding member of the Russian American Chamber of Commerce but has not been in touch with Millian recently. “So I always took everything he said with a grain of salt.”
Another acquaintance referred to him in a similar way, saying he exaggerated his connections with Trump and with the Russians. “He’s too small of a fish to deal with Russian people,” she said. “They will smell his smallness from miles away.”
Millian’s account of his relationship with Trump has shifted over time. As the Republican candidate was rising in the spring of 2016, a time before there was close scrutiny of Trump’s ties to Russia, Millian used his media appearances to describe deep connections with the New York real estate mogul.
He told the Russian state-operated news agency RIA Novosti last April, for instance, that he met Trump at a Miami horse-racing track after “mutual associates” had organised a trip for Trump to Moscow in 2007.
From there, Millian said, he entered into a business arrangement in which he says he helped market a Trump-branded condominium complex in Hollywood, Florida, to international investors, including Russians.
Millian’s description of the Miami event appears to match up with a picture he posted on Facebook that appears to show him posing with Trump and the project’s developer, Jorge Pérez — the only evidence that Millian ever met Trump.
A spokesman for Pérez said his company has no record of paying Millian in connection with the project, and Pérez declined to comment further.
A White House spokeswoman said, “Sergei Millian is one of hundreds of thousands of people the president has had his picture made with, but they do not know one another.”
Millian, however, promoted ties he claimed to hold with Trump’s company.
A 2009 newsletter posted to the website of the Russian American Chamber of Commerce reported that the group had “signed formal agreements” with the Trump Organization and Pérez’s company “to jointly service the Russian clients’ commercial, residential and industrial real estate needs.”
In the interview with RIA Novosti, Millian boasted that when he was in New York, Trump introduced him to his “right-hand man,” Michael Cohen, a longtime Trump adviser — a claim that Cohen has denied.
“He is the chief attorney of Trump, through whom all contracts have to go,” Millian told the Russian news outlet, adding, “I was involved in the signing of a contract” to promote Trump’s real estate projects in Russia.
“You can say that I was their exclusive broker,” Millian continued in Russian. “Back then, in 2007-2008, Russians by the dozens were buying apartments in Trump’s buildings in the USA.”
Asked in the April interview how often he spoke to Trump or his associates, Millian responded: “The last time was several days ago.”
Millian told people last year that he was in touch with Papadopoulos, whom Trump had described in a March 2016 Washington Post editorial board interview as a member of his foreign policy team and an “excellent guy.”
Papadopoulos received attention during the campaign largely because of reports that he had exaggerated his résumé and cited among his accomplishments that he had participated in a Model United Nations program for college and graduate students.
Despite the Trump team’s efforts to distance the president from Millian, the dossier source nevertheless attended Trump’s inauguration in January.
He posted photos of himself on Facebook attending VIP events for supporters, including one in which he posed in front of the podium at a reception for Trump chief of staff Reince Priebus at Trump’s Washington hotel. A White House official did not address a question about Millian’s attendance.
The Washington Post
Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/amer...57446.html
She was only able to gain entry to the US because Loretta Lynch issued her a special visa under "extraordinary circumstances".
Lynch said she "does not have any personal knowledge of Ms. Veselnitskaya"s travel."
After Lynch"s DOJ allowed Veselnitskaya into the country to participate in a lawsuit and nothing more, she had the now infamous meeting at Trump Tower, met with current and former lawmakers from both parties, and was spotted in primo front-row seating at a House Foreign Affairs committee hearing on Russia.
What an interesting trip for Ms. Veselnitskaya...
http://thefringenewsinfo.blogspot.com/2017/07..._2303.html
Veselnitskaya and her colleagues misrepresented who they were and who they worked for.
“Specifically, we have learned that the person who sought the meeting is associated with Fusion GPS, a firm which according to public reports, was retained by Democratic operatives to develop opposition research on the President and which commissioned the phony Steele dossier.” -Mark Corallo
The lying bitch has now been charged with obstruction of justice tied to a money laundering case in New York.
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan announced the single criminal count against the attorney, Natalia Veselnitskaya, on Tuesday.
The allegation in the indictment suggests she has close ties to the Russian government — something she has previously denied in the context of the special counsel's Russia investigation.
The case stems from legal work Veselnitskaya was doing for Prevezon Holdings. Prosecutors allege the company received and laundered millions of dollars of proceeds as part of a complex Russian tax refund scheme that defrauded Russian taxpayers out of more than $200 million. The U.S. government was seeking to recover millions of dollars' worth of property, much of it tied up in New York real estate, on the ground that it was connected to the scheme.
The 19-page indictment against Veselnitskaya alleges that while representing Prevezon, she submitted "false and deceptive declarations" to a federal judge in New York City.
Veselnitskaya submitted to the court a declaration that she presented as the investigative findings of the Russian government, the indictment says.
But prosecutors allege that she helped draft the supposed independent findings "in secret cooperation with a senior Russian prosecutor."
"Fabricating evidence — submitting false and deceptive declarations to a federal judge — in an attempt to affect the outcome of pending litigation not only undermines the integrity of the judicial process, but it threatens the ability of our courts and our government to ensure that justice is done," the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, Geoffrey S. Berman, said in a statement.
This is not the first time that Veselnitskaya has attracted the attention of U.S. investigators.
She has come under scrutiny for her role in a now-infamous meeting in June 2016 with Donald Trump Jr., Paul Manafort and Jared Kushner. T he sit-down at Trump Tower was arranged on the pretext that Veselnitskaya had dirt to offer on Trump's campaign opponent, Hillary Clinton.
Participants say nothing came of their conversation. But the meeting has emerged as an important moment in the broader Russia investigation.
https://www.npr.org/2019/01/08/683238650/russ...aundering-
FusionGPS co-founder Glenn Simpson is key figure in Russia-Trump collusion narrative
Shady Research Firm Fusion GPS Behind Fake Trump Dossier WAS BEING PAID BY DNC AND RUSSIANS!
“...debunked dossier was a hit piece on Trump with outrageous stories about his encounters with Russian prostitutes.”
“The fake dossier was taken seriously by the highest levels of our intelligence community along with our media, despite obvious signs that the firm behind it was tied to Russia.”
GPS Fusion Founder Behind Debunked Dossier Was on Payroll of Russian Lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/07/confi...nc-russia/
"According to Brower, Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Russian lawyer who met with Donald Trump Jr. at Trump Tower, also “hired Glenn Simpson of the firm Fusion GPS to conduct a sear campaign” against him."
The Trump Tower meeting was a dirty trick to set up Donald Trump Jr.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/josh-rogi...fb60f8c9e0
“Fusion GPS hired British intelligence agent Christopher Steele shortly after Veselnitskaya’s meeting with Trump Jr. “
Glenn Simpson, boss of firm behind anti-Trump dossier to plead the Fifth at congressional hearing
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jul/...ssier-ple/
FusionGPS Founder cancels Congressional testimony
http://www.pacificpundit.com/2017/07/13/glenn...testimony/
Research Firm Behind Trump Dossier Is Refusing To Answer Senate Committee’s Questions
“The FBI, under former Director James Comey]...made an informal agreement in October to pay ( using our tax dollars ) Steele for future research on Trump.”
http://dailycaller.com/2017/04/13/research-fi...questions/
Who is the mystery informant behind the Trump-Russia dossier?
Sergei Millian is president of the Russian American Chamber of Commerce, at an energy forum in Moscow.
In June, a Belarusian-American businessman who goes by the name Sergei Millian shared some tantalising claims about Donald Trump.
Trump had a long-standing relationship with Russian officials, Millian told an associate, and those officials were now feeding Trump damaging information about his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton. Millian said that the information provided to Trump had been “very helpful.”
Unbeknownst to Millian, however, his conversation was not confidential. His associate passed on what he had heard to a former British intelligence officer who had been hired by Trump’s political opponents to gather information about the Republican’s ties to Russia.
The allegations by Millian — whose role was first reported by the Wall Street Journal and has been confirmed by The Washington Post — were central to the dossier compiled by the former spy, Christopher Steele. While the dossier has not been verified and its claims have been denied by Trump, Steele’s document said that Millian’s assertions had been corroborated by other sources, including in the Russian government and former intelligence sources.
The most explosive allegation that the dossier says originally came from Millian is the claim that Trump had hired prostitutes at the Moscow Ritz-Carlton and that the Kremlin has kept evidence of the encounter.
By his own evolving statements, Sergei Millian is either a shrewd businessman with high-level access to both Trump’s inner circle and the Kremlin, or a bystander unwittingly caught up in a global controversy.
An examination of Millian’s career shows he is a little of both. His case lays bare the challenge facing the FBI as it investigates Russia’s alleged attempts to manipulate the American political system and whether Trump associates participated.
It also illustrates why the Trump administration remains unable to shake the Russia story. While some of the unproven claims attributed in the dossier to Millian are bizarre and outlandish, there are also indications that he had contacts with Trump’s circle.
Millian told several people that during the campaign and presidential transition he was in touch with George Papadopoulos, a campaign foreign policy adviser, according to a person familiar with the matter. Millian is among Papadopoulos’s nearly 240 Facebook friends.
Trump aides vehemently reject Millian’s claims to have had close contact with Trump or high-level access to the president’s company.
Millian did not answer a list of detailed questions about his interactions with Trump and his role in the Steele dossier, instead responding by email with lengthy general defences of Trump’s election as “God’s will” and complaining that inquiries about his role are evidence of a “witch hunt” and “McCarthyism.”
“Any falsifications, deceit and baseless allegations directed against any US President is damaging to the national security interests of the United States,” he wrote in one email. “Publishing slanderous stories about the President’s decency and offensive material about the first family is malicious propaganda and a threat to the national security in order to destabilise the integrity of the United States of America and stir civil disorder aiming at reducing its political influence in the world.”
In late January, Millian appeared on Russian television, where he denied knowing information that could be damaging to Trump. “I want to say that I don’t have any compromising information, neither in Russia nor in the United States, nor could I have,” he said, speaking in Russian. “Without a doubt it is a blatant lie and an effort of some people — it’s definitely a group of people — to portray our president in a bad light using my name.”
The dossier, decried by Trump as “phony stuff” and “fake news” and derided by Russian President Vladimir Putin as “rubbish,” consists of a series of reports compiled by Steele over the course of several months before the election.
Millian, identified in different portions of the dossier as “Source D” and “Source E,” is described as a “close associate of Trump. ”
In addition to the salacious allegations that gained widespread attention, the dossier attributed other claims to Millian.
For instance, Steele wrote that Millian asserted that there was a “well developed conspiracy of cooperation between Trump and Russian leadership,” claiming the relationship was managed for Trump by former campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
A Manafort spokesman said “every word in the dossier about Paul Manafort is a lie.”
Some of those who know Millian described him as more of a big-talking schmoozer than a globe-trotting interlocutor. They say he’s a self-promoter with a knack for getting himself on television — like the time he appeared on a 2013 episode of the Bravo reality show Million Dollar Listing, where he attempted to broker a sale with a Russian-speaking client who agreed to pay $7 million in cash for a luxury New York unit.
“He’s an opportunist. If he sees an opportunity, he would go after it,” said Tatiana Osipova, who was a neighbour of Millian’s when he lived in Atlanta and who in 2006 helped him found a trade group, the Russian American Chamber of Commerce in the USA.
Osipova now lives in St. Petersburg but has remained in touch with Millian. “He’s a fun guy, a smart guy. But always talking. He talks so much s—-.”
Millian’s original name was Siarhei Kukuts, but those who know him say he changed it because he wanted something that sounded more elegant.
He told ABC News in July that he changed his name to honor his grandmother, whose last name he said was Millianovich. He has also at times gone by the name Sergio Millian.
“My general impression of him was that he just wanted to be important. Nobody really knew what he or the chamber were doing, but he presented himself with grandeur,” said Nadia Diskavets, a New York photographer who was also a founding member of the Russian American Chamber of Commerce but has not been in touch with Millian recently. “So I always took everything he said with a grain of salt.”
Another acquaintance referred to him in a similar way, saying he exaggerated his connections with Trump and with the Russians. “He’s too small of a fish to deal with Russian people,” she said. “They will smell his smallness from miles away.”
Millian’s account of his relationship with Trump has shifted over time. As the Republican candidate was rising in the spring of 2016, a time before there was close scrutiny of Trump’s ties to Russia, Millian used his media appearances to describe deep connections with the New York real estate mogul.
He told the Russian state-operated news agency RIA Novosti last April, for instance, that he met Trump at a Miami horse-racing track after “mutual associates” had organised a trip for Trump to Moscow in 2007.
From there, Millian said, he entered into a business arrangement in which he says he helped market a Trump-branded condominium complex in Hollywood, Florida, to international investors, including Russians.
Millian’s description of the Miami event appears to match up with a picture he posted on Facebook that appears to show him posing with Trump and the project’s developer, Jorge Pérez — the only evidence that Millian ever met Trump.
A spokesman for Pérez said his company has no record of paying Millian in connection with the project, and Pérez declined to comment further.
A White House spokeswoman said, “Sergei Millian is one of hundreds of thousands of people the president has had his picture made with, but they do not know one another.”
Millian, however, promoted ties he claimed to hold with Trump’s company.
A 2009 newsletter posted to the website of the Russian American Chamber of Commerce reported that the group had “signed formal agreements” with the Trump Organization and Pérez’s company “to jointly service the Russian clients’ commercial, residential and industrial real estate needs.”
In the interview with RIA Novosti, Millian boasted that when he was in New York, Trump introduced him to his “right-hand man,” Michael Cohen, a longtime Trump adviser — a claim that Cohen has denied.
“He is the chief attorney of Trump, through whom all contracts have to go,” Millian told the Russian news outlet, adding, “I was involved in the signing of a contract” to promote Trump’s real estate projects in Russia.
“You can say that I was their exclusive broker,” Millian continued in Russian. “Back then, in 2007-2008, Russians by the dozens were buying apartments in Trump’s buildings in the USA.”
Asked in the April interview how often he spoke to Trump or his associates, Millian responded: “The last time was several days ago.”
Millian told people last year that he was in touch with Papadopoulos, whom Trump had described in a March 2016 Washington Post editorial board interview as a member of his foreign policy team and an “excellent guy.”
Papadopoulos received attention during the campaign largely because of reports that he had exaggerated his résumé and cited among his accomplishments that he had participated in a Model United Nations program for college and graduate students.
Despite the Trump team’s efforts to distance the president from Millian, the dossier source nevertheless attended Trump’s inauguration in January.
He posted photos of himself on Facebook attending VIP events for supporters, including one in which he posed in front of the podium at a reception for Trump chief of staff Reince Priebus at Trump’s Washington hotel. A White House official did not address a question about Millian’s attendance.
The Washington Post
Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/amer...57446.html
