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Former Amb Richard Burt executed a proffer agreement with the FBI — TeamMueller.

Why is he important?

Let’s take a look.
Russian banker Petr Aven, a billionaire oligarch with Moscow’s Alfa Bank, told Burt that “someone high in the Russian government” (Putin) wanted “a communications channel between the Kremlin and the Trump Transition Team”

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The “high” Russian official was none other than President Vladimir Putin, Mueller’s team would later learn.

Amid what Mueller called a “flurry of Russian activity” during the Trump transition.

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The Aven outreach is the only publicly known instance in which Putin, a onetime KGB spy, was personally involved in directing Russia’s clandestine efforts with the incoming administration.

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At the time of Trump’s election, Alfa Bank was at the center of a mystery over an unexplained surge in computer traffic from Moscow to the Trump Organization in the midst of the 2016 presidential campaign.

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📌📌Computer analysts concluded that Alfa Bank had developed a covert communications channel to the Trump Organization.

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Burt, who was the U.S. ambassador to West Germany during the Reagan Administration, wears a number of hats in the 2016 story of Aven and Alfa Bank. He helped develop key points for an important foreign-policy speech that then-candidate Trump

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Delivered in Washington in April 2016, with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak in attendance. Burt also dined during the campaign with Jeff Sessions, then a top Trump advisor, to discuss policy matters, Mueller said.

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Burt has worked with Alfa Bank and other RU interests. He aided Russia’s plans for a massive gas pipeline, & currently sits on the board of a Luxembourg company, LetterOne.
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That Pytr Aven helped found in 2013 with other Alfa Group leaders and that is investing billions in American health care.

“Putin suggested that Aven needed to take steps to protect himself & Alfa Bank,”

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Against the possibility of U.S. sanctions, including by opening up the back channel,
Aven told Mueller’s investigators, but he took his comments as “implicit directives, and that there would be consequences for Aven if he did not follow through.”

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Burt took Aven’s idea to Dmitri Simes, the Russian-born president of the CNI.

Burt asked Simes to arrange a meeting with Jared Kushner, Simes was lobbying for Burt to be ambassador to Russia, and was speaking with Kushner about foreign policy issues.

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Beginning in the spring of 2016, according to cyber analysts, Alfa Bank’s computer servers in Russia had “pinged” a rarely-used email server connected to the Trump Organization more than 2,700 times with computer-domain “look-ups”

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A number of experts in the field said the computer traffic had the characteristics of a covert email chain that could facilitate the transfer of data or other hidden communications.

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The Trump server involved in the traffic was taken down in September of 2016, when suspicious activity was exposed.

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Computer analysts examined the Alfa Bank server traffic, & said that the computer traffic in 2016 was “highly unusual.”

80% of the traffic going to one particular server at the Trump Org was coming from Alfa Bank.

“The question is why?” says Jones.

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2016: Lobbyist advised Trump campaign while promoting Russian pipeline

Richard Burt helped shape the candidate's first foreign-policy speech while lobbying on behalf of a Moscow-controlled gas company.
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2017: Lobbyist for Russian interests says he attended dinners hosted by Sessions

Richard Burt contradicts Jeff Sessions’ testimony that he didn’t believe he had contacts with lobbyists working for Russian interests during Trump’s campaign

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2019: Mueller Report Sheds Light on Russia’s Concerns Over U.S. Sanctions

Report details efforts by Russian President Vladimir Putin to urge an oligarch to establish contact with the incoming Trump administration

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Richard Burt mentions in the Mueller Report

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Petr Aven mentions in the Mueller Report

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