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🔥@GOP operative Peter Smith raised >$100,000 to pay #Russian🇷🇺hackers to find Clinton’s emails. 10 days after telling his story to the @WSJ, he committed suicide, yet a friend spoke w/him about a new project hours before his death & says he was “excited.”
wsj.com/articles/gop-o…
Smith continued his quest for HRC’s emails *after* the US warned of #Russian🇷🇺interference & went to extraordinary lengths to ensure secrecy, communicating via saved DRAFT (unsent) emails in a shared Gmail account.🤨
🔥One sent email said the >$100k in donations were to be sent to a DC-based scholarship fund for **Russian students**👉🏼“This $100k total with the $50k received from you (Smith) will allow us to fund the Washington Scholarship Fund for the Russian students for the promised $150K.”
👇🏼This email was sent just days after WikiLeaks released its 1st batch of emails damaging to Clinton, and added: “The students are very pleased with the email releases they have seen, and are thrilled with their educational advancement opportunities.”🙄

JUST DAYS after WikiLeaks released the emails that #Russia🇷🇺stole from @TheDemocrats and the US government warned that #Russia was interfering in the election, Smith PAID OFF “Russian students” who were “very pleased with the email releases.”🔥

No wonder Smith’s secret work (to buy Democratic emails STOLEN by #Russia🇷🇺) remains an intense and “expanding” interest of Robert Mueller’s investigation.😎

#TrumpRussia
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I’ve run for Congress and worked on several of my husband’s campaigns. INTERNAL poll data are closely guarded.

Yet Trump’s highly experienced campaign chair (Manafort) willfully gave this VERY sensitive info to a #Russian🇷🇺spy (Kilimnik) with #GRU👉🏼hacked the #DNC.

@thespybrief
If the #Russians🇷🇺 stole @HillaryClinton’s voter file AND had @realDonaldTrump’s internal polling data, they would know which voters to target with specific messages.
Add in the stolen #Facebook and other data, plus Trump’s voter file, and #Russia🇷🇺and others (PsyGroup, Cambridge Analytica, etc) literally would have EVERYTHING needed to microtarget voters very specifically and highly effectively.🤨

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💣BOOM💣

The Feds have emails exchanged btwn #Russian🇷🇺lawyer/spy Natalya Veselnitskaya & the #Russian🇷🇺Prosecutor General’s (“Crown Prosecutor”) office.😎

Rob Goldstone offered HRC dirt from the SAME #Russian🇷🇺Prosecutor via Veselnitskaya.

@thespybrief
documentcloud.org/documents/5677…
This SAME #Russian🇷🇺lawyer was charged today with #ObstructionOfJustice by US prosecutors in its #MoneyLaundering case against #Prevezon

Veselnitskaya also helped recruit a Swiss DOUBLE AGENT overseeing Swiss #MoneyLaundering cases of #Russian🇷🇺mobsters.

Just *days* after Trump fired @PreetBharara (led SDNY who was prosecuting #Prevezon), Trump’s DOJ abruptly settled their ROCK-SOLID $230 million #MoneyLaundering case and gave #Prevezon a sweetheart ~$6 million settlement.🙄

#TrumpRussia

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In emails to “former” #Russian🇷🇺spy Konstantin Kilimnik, Paul Manafort offered Oleg Deripaska “private briefings” on Trump’s campaign to “get whole.” Manafort’s Moscow contact “our friend V” now revealed as ANOTHER “former” #Russian🇷🇺spy Victor Boyarkin.🙄
mag.time.com/Eq15rGo
“Former” #Russian🇷🇺spy Boyarkin says his acquaintance with Manafort goes back to 2006, when Deripaska asked them to help Montenegro achieve independence in the Balkans.🤨

cc @thespybrief

During the 2016 campaign, Boyarkin says it fell to him to collect the $19 million debt that Manafort owed Deripaska. “I came down on him hard.”🤔

Manafort was broke, so instead of money, he offered “private briefings” to Deripaska via Boyarkin to “get whole.”🙄

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SCOOP: Now deceased GOP operative Peter Smith "met with several groups of hackers in a suburban Washington hotel AUG 27-28, 2016" as he pursued Clinton's emails. He also exchanged emails with Flynn AND Mattis in the final months of his life.
by @ByronTau on.wsj.com/2DJN8ui
Associate of now-deceased GOP activist Peter Smith: "We spoke with Flynn the day he left for his [DEC 2015] Moscow trip."
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NEW: I got a hold of the corporate documents for KLS research, the company that GOP operative Peter Smith set-up in his quest for Clinton's emails. The secretary who incorporated the company is the exact same woman who incorporated Michael Flynn's Flynn Intel Group.
You'll recall that Peter Smith listed Michael Flynn and Michael Flynn Jr as people who were helping with his Clinton email search. This suggests that they, at the very least, have some overlap of their business interests.
A word of caution: This woman has done absolutely nothing wrong and also likely set up many many companies. The fact that Smith and Flynn chose the same Delaware incorporation company and the exact same secretary, however, suggests some possible communication.
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In a covert effort to obtain Clinton emails, now-deceased GOP operative Peter Smith raised at least $100,000 from wealthy donors under the guise of a "Scholarship Fund for Russian students" – after US IC warned of Russia's election interference.
#Maddow on.wsj.com/2C08j9K
Peter Smith went to extraordinary lengths to ensure secrecy of his operation [to enlist Russian hackers to obtain Clinton emails], using a Gmail account named “Robert Tyler” that he and his associates communicated with by leaving notes for each other in the draft folder.
#Maddow
Financier Charles Ortel spoke with Peter Smith on the phone hours before his death re a new project and Smith had sounded excited, brainstorming about next steps. Ortel was stunned Smith had taken his life soon after, leaving a note which read: “NO FOUL PLAY WHATSOEVER.”
#Maddow
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GOP operative Peter Smith raised $100,000 from at least four donors in an effort to obtain Clinton emails, according to documents that lay out his secretive quest. wsj.com/articles/gop-o…
Peter Smith used a Gmail account with the name Robert Tyler that he and several others had access to. Smith donated $50k himself with the $100k from other donors which they described being for a Washington fund for Russian students wsj.com/articles/gop-o…
The email about raising funds came days after WikiLeaks & DCLeaks began releasing emails damaging to Clinton and the US govt warned about Russian interference wsj.com/articles/gop-o…
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NEW: Deceased GOP operative Peter Smith, who previously told WSJ he tried to obtain Hillary Clinton's emails via hackers, made several cash withdrawals during those efforts that were deemed "suspicious" by his bank. Those may have been payments to hackers.
buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonl…
"According to a person with direct knowledge of [Peter] Smith’s project, the Republican operative stated that he was prepared to pay hackers 'many thousands of dollars' for Clinton’s emails — and ultimately did so."

Peter Smith has said he was in touch w/ both Russians on the dark web & Trump campaign officials, particularly Michael Flynn.

Now, per @BuzzFeedNews: FBI & congressional investigators have zeroed in on transactions he made right as his effort to get Clinton's emails heated up.
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GOP Operative Peter Smith Made ‘Suspicious’ Withdrawals During Pursuit Of Clinton Emails, by @jasonleopold & @a_cormier_ HT @chrisbrad22
buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonl…
After scouring nine accounts that Smith controlled, Northern Trust turned over documents showing 88 suspicious cash withdrawals totaling about $140,000 between January 2016 and April 2017, including a $3,000 withdrawal six days after the election
buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonl…
FBI & Senate Intelligence Committee are trying to follow the money to learn whether Smith paid anyone connected with the Russian government. The FBI suspects Smith used some of the cash to fund his operation & paid hackers who provided him emails
buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonl…
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