DOJ: Ex-Manafort Associate Firtash Is Top-Tier Comrade of Russian Mobsters
Source: NBC News
The Department of Justice has identified a former business associate of ex-Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort as an "upper-echelon [associate] of Russian organized crime."
The declaration came in a 115-page filing as part of the government's case against Dmytro Firtash, a Ukrainian oligarch who was once involved in a failed multimillion-dollar deal to buy New York's Drake Hotel with Manafort, and an important player in the Ukrainian political party for which Manafort worked.
Firtash is being prosecuted for what federal prosecutors in Chicago say was his role in bribing Indian officials in order to get a lucrative mining deal to sell titanium to Boeing.
The government says that prosecuting Firtash and his co-defendant in the alleged scheme, Andras Knopp, "will disrupt this organized crime group and prevent it from further criminal acts within the United States."
Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/doj-ex-manafort-associate-firtash-top-tier-comrade-russian-mobsters-n786806
RKP5637
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(81,730 posts)Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)I mean, ANY question?
LiberalArkie
(15,746 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Investigate. Prosecute. Incarcerate all republican TreasonWeasels
nycbos
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Jim__
(14,101 posts)Of course, there is no actual evidence of any collusion.
mopinko
(70,426 posts)the lawyer brought documents. they were not about hillary.
i wonder if they brought the tape.
DeminPennswoods
(15,310 posts)and turned them over to the Intel Cmte.
mopinko
(70,426 posts)DeminPennswoods
(15,310 posts)to the feds. What I found interesting is that Jr and Jr-in-law said the meeting wasn't worth their time, yet Manafort thought there was enough substance to take notes.
mopinko
(70,426 posts)unless he can prove they were contemporaneous, they are worthless.
DeminPennswoods
(15,310 posts)There's no point in putting a lie down in black and white, then giving it to investigators.
mopinko
(70,426 posts)and wasnt about to give them THOSE.
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