The Russian-American lobbyist who attended the infamous Trump Tower meeting had contacts with members of Hillary Clinton's inner circle and knew Clinton herself, he told the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2017.
"I knew [Clinton]; I knew some people who worked on her campaign," the lobbyist, Rinat Akhmetshin, told the Senate Judiciary Committee in closed-door testimony on Nov. 14.
Trump Jr., Akhmetshin and other meeting participants all testified to the Judiciary panel the meeting was a dud and no information about Clinton changed hands.
"Not with officials, no," Akhmetshin said, adding of Clinton he "Met her in social setting, not on a professional line."
Akhmetshin did not go into more detail about his contacts with Clinton associates or Clinton herself, though he left open the possibility the contacts occurred during the campaign.
Akhmetshin told BuzzFeed's Aram Roston and The Associated Press's Desmond Butler about the Trump Tower meeting "Probably a few weeks after, maybe," he said.
Investigators questioned why Akhmetshin would tell journalists about the meeting before telling Lieberman, who in addition to being his lawyer was also working on the same anti-Magnitsky project with Akhmetshin, Veselnitskaya and Glenn Simpson.
http://dailycaller.com/2018/05/18/rinat-akhmetshin-clinton-trump-tower/
"I knew [Clinton]; I knew some people who worked on her campaign," the lobbyist, Rinat Akhmetshin, told the Senate Judiciary Committee in closed-door testimony on Nov. 14.
Trump Jr., Akhmetshin and other meeting participants all testified to the Judiciary panel the meeting was a dud and no information about Clinton changed hands.
"Not with officials, no," Akhmetshin said, adding of Clinton he "Met her in social setting, not on a professional line."
Akhmetshin did not go into more detail about his contacts with Clinton associates or Clinton herself, though he left open the possibility the contacts occurred during the campaign.
Akhmetshin told BuzzFeed's Aram Roston and The Associated Press's Desmond Butler about the Trump Tower meeting "Probably a few weeks after, maybe," he said.
Investigators questioned why Akhmetshin would tell journalists about the meeting before telling Lieberman, who in addition to being his lawyer was also working on the same anti-Magnitsky project with Akhmetshin, Veselnitskaya and Glenn Simpson.
http://dailycaller.com/2018/05/18/rinat-akhmetshin-clinton-trump-tower/
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