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Former Soviet counterintelligence officer and hacker for hire Rinat Akhmetshin received $500K in suspicious payments before & after he attended the Trump Tower meeting with a Russian informant offering dirt on Clinton.
by @LoopEmma #Maddow @Kris_Sacrebleu bit.ly/2SvdzuA
Rinat Akhmetshin, who received $500K in suspicious payments before & after attending the Trump Tower meeting, "has a reputation for obtaining emails, info from spyware, and other data from Russian hackers." []
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Before it was reported that Rinat Akhmetshin attended the 2016 Trump Tower meeting, I noted here that in 2013, Akhmetshin had hacked the computer servers of a company owned by Trump's business partner, Russian mafia boss, Alexander Mashkevich,
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Dec 2017: Mueller is investigating HRAG, Veselnitskaya's 'Russian adoption foundation' which paid Akhmetshin and funded by rich Russians linked to Russian Railways deputy director Petr Katsyv, a longtime friend of Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika.
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This story, with five (!) bylines, throws Russian attorney Natalya Veselnitskaya's indictment last month into sharp relief.

A Lobbyist At The Trump Tower Meeting Received Half A Million Dollars In Suspicious Payments buzzfeednews.com/article/emmalo… via @LoopEmma
According to the report, the Russian-born lobbyist (Rinat Akhmetshin) received a large suspicious payments from Denis Katsyv, Veselnitskaya's client and the owner of Prevezon Holdings.

Background from January: courthousenews.com/distinct-from-…
Considering how much of the Trump Tower meeting circled around the Prevezon-related matters, that could account for the belligerent replies from Veseltnitskaya and Akhmetshin.
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A Lobbyist At The Trump Tower Meeting Received Half A Million Dollars In Suspicious Payments
A bank flagged transactions, including large cash deposits, made before and after Rinat Akhmetshin attended the 2016 Trump Tower meeting.

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📌Rinat Akhmetshin, a Soviet military officer turned Washington lobbyist, deposited large, round-number amounts of cash in the months preceding and following the meeting, where Veselnitskaya offered senior Trump campaign officials dirt on Hillary Clinton.
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📌Rinat Akhmetshin also received a large payment that bank investigators deemed suspicious from Denis Katsyv, whose company Prevezon Holdings was accused by the US Justice Department of laundering the proceeds of a $230 million Russian tax fraud.
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