@4corners The dogmas of the past are indeed inadequate as is the investigative work on this story. Veselnitskaya wasn’t there about Clinton donors, she was only in the US defending her client Pyotr Katsyv, after Bill Browder secretly passed dubious material to US Attorney Preet Bharara(1)
@4corners NV hired US law firm Baker Hostetler to defend Katsyv in what became a civil lawsuit, because the burden of proof is reversed and the defendants have to prove they played no part in the crime. The reasons for this become clear when the defence uncovers Browder’s role (2)
@4corners Browder had provided the entire prosecution case, accusing Katsyv, son of oligarch Denis Katsyv, with receiving a mere $800,000 form an alleged $230 million tax fraud from the Russian state, only known to Browder and co. as part of his Magnitsky story. (3) @stranahan @llama
@4corners @stranahan @LLAMA Upon this discovery, Baker Hostetler was free to look into Browder’s background, they hired Glenn Simpson of Fusion GPS to do the research. Unlike Steele, Simpson was able to find copious official documents which contradicted Browder’s polished story.(4) @PAT_1776US @NakedHedgie
@4corners @stranahan @LLAMA @PAT_1776US @NakedHedgie Browder seemed to have lost his tongue. After travelling the world with his story, he became strangely reluctant to repeat it under oath, evading two subpoenas, and was finally cornered in a New York alley in mid 2015, and served while running away. (5)
@4corners @stranahan @LLAMA @PAT_1776US @NakedHedgie In Browder’s deposition, he unable to substantiate even minor parts of his clearly fabricated story. This was not only been a big problem for Browder, but embarrassing to Western governments who either were wilfully ignorant, or it was all a planned operation.(5) @ClimateAudit
@4corners @stranahan @LLAMA @PAT_1776US @NakedHedgie @ClimateAudit Those familiar with Browder’s story will be surprised with his responses to Mark Cymrot’s cross examination including the revelation that Magnitsky was not a lawyer, but an account who worked for BB since 01. BB’s $230 million theft is equally shaky.(6)
@4corners @stranahan @LLAMA @PAT_1776US @NakedHedgie @ClimateAudit Transcript of Browder’s deposition on 15 April 2015 in US vs Prevezon Holdings - ultimately the reason for the settlement in May 2017. Browder spent the next two years fighting to have this deposition go away. Browder could not be put before a jury.(8)
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@4corners @stranahan @LLAMA @PAT_1776US @NakedHedgie @ClimateAudit The Trump Tower meeting took place while BB. was engaged in legal argument. He needed “insurance” in the event that the deposition would come to light. He had a motive to mire the defence in a public event, but he knew from SD’s Jonathan Winer that GS was hired by the DNC (9)
@4corners @stranahan @LLAMA @PAT_1776US @NakedHedgie @ClimateAudit Within a few weeks of the settlement of the Prevezon Case, media outlets were saying Trump settled on “Putin’s orders”, reporting nothing about the invisible Browder. The Trump Tower story leaked, followed by Browder’s media blitz, calling NV, GS and B. H. “Kremlin” stooges.(10)
@4corners @stranahan @LLAMA @PAT_1776US @NakedHedgie @ClimateAudit Some time later, SD’s Robert Otto’s emails were hacked and released to the public. Most the emails included Browder, and his intimidation of NV. A threatening photo of NV’s house, was sent, the day she was suddenly granted a US visa, 6 June, 3 days before the Meeting.
Cui bono?
Cui bono?
@4corners @stranahan @LLAMA @PAT_1776US @NakedHedgie @ClimateAudit Veselnitskaya had asked former client Agar Agalarov, if he could help her meet anyone in the US who could help with the case, given Browder’s delaying tactics was denying her client natural justice. His son Emin, a popular singer knew Rob Goldstone, an asked what he could do(12)
@4corners @stranahan @LLAMA @PAT_1776US @NakedHedgie @ClimateAudit Further evidence that a setup was being planned to discredit NV and Glenn Simpson, but it would have to wait not only after the election, but the end of the Prevezon case in May 2017. Browder was also leaning on NBC’s Ken Dilanian about his questions about the Prevezon trial
@4corners @stranahan @LLAMA @PAT_1776US @NakedHedgie @ClimateAudit Contrary to the limited interview with Veselnitskaya by Four Corners that rudely dismissed her account out of hand, the ABC might consider playing this interview in full, with NV being able to freely express herself in Russian and avoid being verballed.
@4corners @stranahan @LLAMA @PAT_1776US @NakedHedgie @ClimateAudit Browder not only made repeated claims to Congress under oath at variance to the deposition, but clearly withheld important information about his likely foreknowledge of Trump Tower meeting, +53:00 priceless 🤥🤥
