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Next week @SenateGOP will try to confirm Trump's DOJ Criminal Division chief pick Brian Benczkowski [who represented Russia’s Alfa Bank & was a top staffer to then-Senator Sessions], while attention is focused on SCOTUS. This could be a pivotal moment in the Russia probe.
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"Why does [Trump] want Brian Benczkowski for this important job? Why not an attorney w/ actual prosecutorial experience who's free & clear of Russian connections? We still don’t know the full story behind Alfa Bank & what they did in 2016." -@SenatorDurbin
"I remain concerned, that if confirmed, Trump DOJ Criminal Division Chief pick Brian Benczkowski could provide a back channel to his old boss [Sessions] & to the man in the Oval who’s declared open war on Mueller." -@SenWhitehouse, Sep 2017
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Dec 2017 DOJ letter to @SenWhitehouse: If confirmed as Criminal Division Chief, Benczkowski [who represented Russia's Alfa Bank which is owned by the father in-law of Mueller-indicted Van der Zwaan] WOULD have some authority over the Mueller probe.
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If confirmed as Criminal Division chief, former Alfa Bank attorney Benczkowski would sit in on Russia probe meetings. "His only apparent qualification is his close political relationship with an AG who's recused from the probe." -@SenWhitehouse
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Trump's DOJ Criminal Division Chief pick Brian Benczkowski represented Russia's Alfa Bank until the day of his nomination. His work for Alfa Bank [owned by the father in-law of Mueller-indicted Van der Zwaan] included reviewing the Steele dossier.
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THREAD: In light of the Trump admin lifting sanctions on Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska's companies, recall that Trump's campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, conspired with Deripaska during the 2016 campaign with help from Russian intelligence operative Konstantin Kilimnik.
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JUL 7, 2016: Manafort offers Deripaska private campaign briefings then meets with Kilimnik re the same on Aug 2.

AUG 11, 2016 email from Manafort's CPA: "Paul has indicated $2.4M in fees earned, but not yet received. Expected to be deposited Nov 2016 [post election?]."
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JUL 29, 2016 email from Russian intelligence operative Kilimnik to Manafort [days after Trump accepts GOP nomination]: "I met today with [Deripaska]. I have important messages from him to you. He asked me to go & brief you on our conversation."
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JUN 15, 2016
McCARTHY: There’s two people, I think, Putin pays – Rohrabacher and Trump...swear to God.

RYAN: This is an off the record [laughter] NO LEAKS...alright?! This is how we know we’re a real family.

SCALISE: That’s how you know that we’re tight.
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JUN 15, 2016, @GOPLeader Kevin McCarthy to Paul Ryan, @SteveScalise, and other GOP: "There’s...there’s two people, I think, Putin pays. Rohrabacher and Trump...swear to God."

@Evan_McMullin was there and confirmed it was not a joke.
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Per @Evan_McMullin: One senior GOP leader [that's you, @GOPLeader!] dolefully informed his peers that he thought Trump was on the Kremlin’s payroll and had been compromised by Russian intelligence. Other GOP leaders were surprised but did not dispute him.
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CORRECTION: Manafort told Kilimnik to pass TRUMP polling data not to Deripaska but to Ukrainian oligarchs Rinat Akhmetov & Serhiy Lyovochkin, who funneled $50K to Trump's inaugural & is business partner to Dmytro Firtash [top-tier comrade of Russian mob boss Mogilevich].
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FYI: Rick Gates testified that between 2010-2013, former Yanukovych CoS Serhiy Lyovochkin funneled $42M to Paul Manafort. At the time, Lyovochkin was business partner to Dmytro Firtash [top-tier comrade of Russian mob boss, Semion Mogilevich].
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In his plea deal, Sam Patten, US business partner of Konstantin Kilimnik [Russian GRU associate of Manafort & Gates] who worked for Cambridge Analytica in 2014, said a Ukranian oligarch [Serhiy Lyovochkin] funneled $50K into Trump's inaugural fund.
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Trump announced his new WH Council Pat Cippollone.
Just like Assistant AG Brian Benczkowski and Kavanaugh they all at one point worked at Kirkland and Ellis. The firm what represented Russia’s Alfa Bank and had a winning streak w cases seen before the Supreme Court
Reminder- Despite Assistant AG Brian Benczkowski dealings with Russian clients including Alfa Bank who is part of the investigation he has refused to recuse and has seen the evidence of the Mueller team
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Benczkowski represented a Putin-linked Russian bank under investigation for its connections to the Trump Org. Senators are about to vote on his nomination to head the DOJ’s Criminal Division, which could undermine the integrity of the Mueller probe. ACT👇🏽theloyalopposition.net/daily-ctas/urg…
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Benczkowski’s longstanding ties to Jeff Sessions raises another red flag. If confirmed, he could jeopardize the the terms of Sessions’ recusal from the Mueller probe. And, if confirmed as Acting AG, he could be in a position to limit, hinder, or even shut down the investigation.
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Brian Benczkowski represented Russia’s Alfa Bank and was a top staffer to then-Senator Sessions.

Senate Republicans to vote next week to confirm him to head the DOJ Criminal Division. washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost…
Trump’s nominee to lead the Justice Department’s criminal division, Brian A. Benczkowski, has disclosed to Congress that he previously represented Alfa Bank, one of Russia’s largest financial institutions, whose owners have ties to Vladimir Putin. nytimes.com/2017/07/24/us/…
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Remember Brian Benczkowski? He represented Russia’s Alfa Bank and was a top staffer to then-Senator Sessions. Senate Republicans plan to vote next week to confirm him to head the DOJ Criminal Division.
Heading the DOJ Criminal Division is a critically important job. This person will supervise over 600 federal prosecutors handling thousands of cases and investigations, and will oversee sensitive matters such as the criminal investigation of Michael Cohen.
Benczkowski has no prosecutorial experience. He showed poor judgment by choosing to represent Alfa Bank while he was seeking a DOJ job despite reports that Alfa was under criminal investigation. And he won’t commit to recuse himself from Russia-related matters if confirmed.
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At Senate Judiciary hearing to confirm Trump's nominee to lead DOJ's Criminal Division, Feinstein says she "cannot support this nomination."

"I'm concerned that he doesn't have the qualifications or independence needed to lead this important branch of government," she says.
Feinstein says she opposes the nominee, Brian Benczkowski, because he has no courtroom experience, was not a federal prosecutor, etc.
Benczkowski, if you remember, represented Alfa Bank, firm with ties to Russia. nytimes.com/2017/07/26/us/…
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