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Newly-unsealed court docs: Between Jan 2017 and Aug 2017, while he was Trump's personal lawyer & employed by Trump Org, Michael Cohen received 7 monthly payments of $83,333 [totaling $583,333] from Columbus Nova, an entity controlled by Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg.
#Maddow
ICYMI, May 8, 2018: "Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg & his cousin Andrew Intrater routed 8 payments to Michael Cohen through Columbus Nova beginning Jan 2017 and continuing until at least Aug 2017...approximately $500,000 in payments."
#Maddow
Mar 2018: Mueller investigators stopped Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg at a NY-area airport, searched his electronic devices, and questioned him about $500K in payments his company [Columbus Nova] made in 2017 to Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen.
#Maddow
ICYMI: Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg’s ticket to Trump's inauguration came from his cousin & business assoc, Andrew Intrater [Columbus Nova CEO], who donated $250K to Trump’s inaugural, gave $300K to Michael Cohen, & was questioned by Mueller.
#Maddow
Apr 2014: FBI warns that the Skolkovo Foundation, controlled by Viktor Vekselberg [the Russian oligarch who paid Trump lawyer Michael Cohen $583K], might be part of a Moscow spying campaign that sought to siphon up American science and technology.
#Maddow
Apr 2014: LUKOIL [whose CEO, Alekperov, was briefed by Cambridge Analytica in Jul 2014 on election disruption and has close ties to Agalarov] became core investor of Vekselberg's Skolkovo Foundation [which FBI deemed a possible spying operation].
#Maddow
For a $1M donation to Trump's Inaugural, Russian oligarch Vekselberg & his cousin Intrater [Columbus Nova CEO] were seated next to Michael Cohen & his family at the “Candlelight Dinner.” Columbus Nova then signed Cohen to a $1M consulting contract.
#Maddow
The mystery $1M loan Paul Manafort received from a company called Woodlawn LLC in Aug 2017 – after the FBI raided his properties – is suspected to have come from Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg through a dubious Intrater connection.
HT @emzorbit #Maddow
Woodlawn [which loaned Manafort $1M after the FBI raided his properties] installed as managing member in 2018, a Hollywood bit player named Joey Rappa, who was working on a movie with Russian billionaire Viktor Vekselberg's cousin, Andrew Intrater.
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