Today's filing claims that in documents, alleged Russian spy Maria Butina often refers to her “funder” — a Russian oligarch who, according to Forbes, had a net worth of $1.2 billion in 2018. You might want to mute this thread, but I want to try and narrow that down a bit.
Forbes’ 2018 billionaires list includes 12 Russian nationals worth an estimated $1.2 billion.
The filing specifically mentions a 'businessman', so it's probably not Elena Baturina. (Would be interesting though, since her husband, former Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov, could be tied to both Trump and the mob.)
According to the filing "this person often travels to the United States". Boris Rotenberg and his brother are under sanctions due to their close connections to Putin, so that would not be possible for them.
Sergei Kolesnikov is a former associate of Vladimir Putin, however, he now is a whistle-blower on the run, working to expose what he believes to be the defining corruption of the Putin era. He has been living in exile in Estonia and is no longer part of Putin's inner circle.
I made a mistake. The filing mentions the oligarch had a 'real time' net worth of $1.2 billion. The 'real time ranking' is different than Forbes' 2018 ranking and adds more names. To be sure, I'll combine both, we now have;
Yuri Kovalchuk, known as "Putin's banker", is on the US sanctions list.
I had a look at her social media accounts (Twitter, Instagram, VK.ru, Facebook) to see if she's following one of the remaining names, but she's not. So, this'll take some more time. Ziyavudin Magomedov was arrested in March, so I don't think it's him.
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The New York Times has also obtained a copy of the forthcoming memoir by Trump’s niece. nytimes.com/2020/07/07/us/…
As a high school student in Queens, Ms. Trump write, Donald Trump paid someone to take a precollege test, the SAT, on his behalf. The high score the proxy earned for him helped Trump to later gain admittance as an undergraduate to Penn's Wharton School.
Trump went to see a movie the night his brother died.
Giuliani traveled to Madrid in August to meet with one of President Zelensky's advisers. US officials characterized this unreported meeting as a "direct follow-up" to Trump's call will Zelensky about the "cases" they had discussed.
Remember that Dutch historian who went viral after he suggested in Davos that wealthy people should pay more tax? Tucker Carlson apparently invited him on his show yesterday. That went well! 😂
Here's that video by the way. “No one is talking about tax evasion," historian Rutger Bregman said of those gathered at Davos. "I feel like I’m at a firefighters' conference and nobody is allowed to talk about water.”