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Michael Cohen Filings Show 950 Messages With Russian Oligarch’s Cousin bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Cohen, exchanged more than 230 phone calls and 950 text messages over eight months with Andrew Intrater, the chief executive officer of Columbus Nova LCC

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📌Andrew Intrater📌

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📌The communications began on the day of Donald Trump’s election, according to a U.S. search-and-seizure warrant filed in Washington on Aug. 7, 2017, and unsealed on Wednesday.

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📌Columbus Nova is the New York-based investment firm made $500,000 in payments last year to a shell company, Essential Consultants, controlled by Michael Cohen.
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Essential Consultants is the same company Cohen used to pay $130,000 of hush money to Stephanie Clifford, and Michael Avenatti, claimed the Columbus Nova payments to Essential Consultants were directed by Russian billionaire Viktor Vekselberg.
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At Trump Tower, 11 day before the Inauguration, Michael Cohen and Viktor Vekselberg a billionaire Russian businessman with ties to the Kremlin discussed Russian relations.
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Days after the inauguration, Mr. Intrater’s private equity firm, Columbus Nova, awarded Mr. Cohen a $1 million consulting contract, a deal that has drawn the attention of federal authorities investigating Mr. Cohen
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Columbus Nova is the US affiliate of Renova Group, a Moscow-based corporation owned by Viktor Vekselberg, one of Russia’s richest men.
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‼️Who is Viktor Vekselberg, the Russian oligarch linked to Trump lawyer Michael Cohen?
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Did Viktor Vekselberg Bankrolling Michael Cohen’s Pro-Russia Peace Plan for Ukraine?

📌Was Cohen’s lucrative “consulting” contract actually tied to the Russian oligarch’s intention to fund the promotion of a plan to lift economic sanctions on Russia.
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📌Records reviewed by the Guardian show that American investment vehicles managed for Vekselberg by Columbus Nova were used to secure $450m in loans that Vekselberg took from the Russian state-controlled VTB Bank.
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The records shed light on the complex financial ties between a firm found to have been paying Cohen the then US president’s personal attorney, a Russian billionaire on good terms with Vladimir Putin, and bankers allied with the Kremlin.
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📌Columbus Nova’s CEO, Vekselberg’s cousin Andrew Intrater, donated $250k to Trump’s inauguration fund. He has since donated $35,000 to the president’s joint 2020 fundraising effort with the REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE, where Cohen was a senior official.
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Filings to Delaware authorities show that Bounty Investments, an investment vehicle that Columbus Nova managed for Vekselberg, was named in 2010 as the borrower on four loans from VTB Capital, the Russian bank’s investment arm.
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In Russia, VTB Capital says it is “pivotal in managing the state’s interests” and said Putin took an active interest in its operations.
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VTB was sanctioned by the US Treasury in 2014 in response to Putin’s annexation of part of Ukraine. Vekselberg himself was recently sanctioned by the US.
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Kazakhstan’s BTA Bank JSC paid Michael Cohen to help recover stolen money allegedly laundered in the U.S.

BTA entered into a contract with Cohen in 2017, after Trump became president
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Sater: Trump Moscow/Trump Soho

📌Kazakhstan’s BTA Bank JSC

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‼️The above is why Trump is having his freak out in the Rose Garden now.

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