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Steven Brown Sentenced To More Than 5 Years In Prison For His Role In Multimillion-Dollar Fraud On Film Investors

Steven Brown did business with Rick Gates and Paul Manafort - and set-up a nonprofit that was chaired by Elliott Broidy

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This article describes Rick Gates ties as a film co-producer with Steven Brown and how Gates & Paul Manafort paid Brown $40K in 2012 & 2013 for work on behalf a Ukrainian Party of Regions.

Mueller likely to probe Gates’ moonlighting as movie producer
mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-wo…
This article on Broidy describes how he was Chairman of the non-profit advisory board Bipartisan Coalition for American Security - set up by Steven Brown, who also co-produced a film w/Broidy

GOP leans on rainmaker who courts controversy on two continents
mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-…
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An interesting side note - the judge who sentenced Steven Brown was Kimba Wood - the same judge who has presided over the Michael Cohen case
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With speculation about the arrest of Paul Whelan as a ploy for a swap with Maria Butina - another name to keep an eye on is Konstantin Yaroshenko - a Russian pilot sentenced to 20 yrs in US jail related to cocaine smuggling with Viktor Bout - Yaroshenko has been a focus for Putin
Now that Russia's charged a US citizen, who are the bargaining chips?
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Another theory about a possible swap for Whelan - Leonid Teif/Teyf
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Leonid Teyf, a Russian living in North Carolina, who was accused with his wife of a murder-for-hire plot and $150 million kickback scheme, is now reported by Novaya Gazeta to have ties to Yevgeny Prigozhin who was indicted by Mueller for election tampering
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Here's original article that describes how Leonid Teyf was the Deputy Director of Voentorg, a company which contracted with Russia’s Ministry of Defense - and he provided Prigozhin with outsourcing contracts for the supply of power to army units
novayagazeta.ru/articles/2018/…
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‘Individual 1’: Trump emerges as a central subject of Mueller probe

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Likely every member of #TeamTrump who testified.🍿
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SCOOP: The Justice Dept is preparing to prosecute WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and is increasingly optimistic it will get him into a U.S. courtroom. Charges may involve the Espionage Act. Heads up, Roger Stone.
by @aviswanatha #Maddow @Kris_Sacrebleu on.wsj.com/2DpywiP
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