House Democrats have called on Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to deliver a classified briefing Thursday regarding the Trump administration's plans to end sanctions affecting several companies tied to Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska, according to the New York Times.
In April, the Trump administration hit three companies Deripaska controls with sanctions over Russian interference in the 2016 US elections; EN+, Rusal and JSC EuroSibEnergo.
Deripaska, who had business dealings with former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, was rumored to be Donald Trump's "Back channel" to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The FBI then tried to turn Deripaska into an FBI informant - an effort involving twice-demoted DOJ #4 official Bruce Ohr and Christopher Steele - the author of the largely unverified "Steele Dossier."
NYT. "Meanwhile, in a September 2016 meeting, Deripaska told FBI agents that it was"preposterous" that Paul Manafort was colluding with Russia to help Trump win the 2016 election.
So the FBI and DOJ secretly collaborated with Trump's alleged backchannel over a seven-year period, starting with Levinson, then on Deripaska's Visa, and finally regarding whether Paul Manafort was an intermediary to Putin.
Mr. Waldman, who stopped working for Mr. Deripaska after the sanctions were levied, said he told the committee staff that his client would be willing to testify without any grant of immunity, but would not testify about any Russian collusion with the Trump campaign because "He doesn't know anything about that theory and actually doesn't believe it occurred." -NYT. In short, Deripaska wanted it known that he worked with the FBI and DOJ, and that he had nothing to do with the Steele dossier.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-01-09/house-democrats-grill-mnuchin-over-dropped-sanctions-russian-oligarch-who-was-once
In April, the Trump administration hit three companies Deripaska controls with sanctions over Russian interference in the 2016 US elections; EN+, Rusal and JSC EuroSibEnergo.
Deripaska, who had business dealings with former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, was rumored to be Donald Trump's "Back channel" to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The FBI then tried to turn Deripaska into an FBI informant - an effort involving twice-demoted DOJ #4 official Bruce Ohr and Christopher Steele - the author of the largely unverified "Steele Dossier."
NYT. "Meanwhile, in a September 2016 meeting, Deripaska told FBI agents that it was"preposterous" that Paul Manafort was colluding with Russia to help Trump win the 2016 election.
So the FBI and DOJ secretly collaborated with Trump's alleged backchannel over a seven-year period, starting with Levinson, then on Deripaska's Visa, and finally regarding whether Paul Manafort was an intermediary to Putin.
Mr. Waldman, who stopped working for Mr. Deripaska after the sanctions were levied, said he told the committee staff that his client would be willing to testify without any grant of immunity, but would not testify about any Russian collusion with the Trump campaign because "He doesn't know anything about that theory and actually doesn't believe it occurred." -NYT. In short, Deripaska wanted it known that he worked with the FBI and DOJ, and that he had nothing to do with the Steele dossier.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-01-09/house-democrats-grill-mnuchin-over-dropped-sanctions-russian-oligarch-who-was-once
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