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Dana Rohrabacher - Wikipedia

Early in Rohrabacher's congressional career in 1990 or 1991, KGB agent and deputy mayor of Saint Petersburg Vladimir Putin and two other Russians entered Rohrabacher's congressional office in Washington D.C. who subsequently en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Rohr…

became close friends according to Rohrabacher during a 2013 interview with KPCC.

Following the election of Donald Trump in 2016, Rohrabacher was on the shortlist for Secretary of State along with Mitt Romney and eventual pick Rex Tillerson.

With his friend Oliver North's fundraising help, Rohrabacher won the Republican primary with a plurality of 35%

In March 2018, CNN reported that Erik Prince, a former intern of Rohrabacher while he was freshman congressman in 1990 and very close ally of Rohrabacher, hosted a

fundraiser at Prince's Virginia with expected attendees including Oliver North on March 18, 2018.[23] On October 12, 2018, the Los Angeles Times reported that the Congressional Leadership Fund, a Super PAC closely associated with House Speaker Paul Ryan

Erik Dean Prince (born June 6, 1969) is an American businessman, former U.S. Navy SEAL officer, and the founder of the private military company Blackwater USA, now called Academi. He served as Blackwater's CEO until 2009, and as its chairman, until its sale to a group of

investors in 2010. Prince now heads the private equity firm Frontier Resource Group, and is chairman of the Hong Kong-listed Frontier Services Group.

During his Iran-Contra trial, North spent his last two years on active duty assigned to Headquarters Marine Corps in

Arlington, Virginia. He submitted his request to retire from the Marine Corps effective May 1, 1988, following his indictment for conspiring to defraud the United States by channeling the profits from US arms sales to the Contra rebels in Nicaragua.[17] After his trial and

felony convictions, all convictions were reversed on appeal.

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Also working on the campaign was George D. O’Neill, Jr., a tech-savvy Rockefeller heir who was adept with computer databases.

He wanted Erickson and Jack Abramoff (who worked for Erickson’s lobbying firm and had produced films with him) to convince Members of Congress to ask the State Department for a change in policy so he could obtain a visa. Mobutu also employed David Keene, the chairman of the board

at the American Conservative Union (ACU), for this purpose. Keene did this work through a private lobbying firm he started with his wife Diana in 1987.

Vanity Fair published a lurid expose about the divorce proceedings of conservative scion/Rockefeller heir George D. O’Neill,

Jr. (estimated net worth: $200 million) and Amy Whittlesey in their January 2000 issue (“Irreconcilable Rockefellers”). The divorce was provoked by O’Neill’s infidelity. As author Lisa Depaulo put it, O’Neill was “diddling everyone from baby-sitters to the local funeral

director’s wife, employing a harem of big-breasted young women in his business, trying to force his wife into threesomes with the help.”

in the December 25, 2000 edition of Insight on the News, a conservative print and online magazine owned by Unification movement founder Sun Myung Moon. Titled “American Imperialism is Not in the U.S. Interest,” the article offered a sharp critique of Neo-Conservatism and the

Clinton administration’s foreign policy concerning Russia and its new authoritarian president, Vladimir Putin. Keene and Devine impugned several foreign policy decisions made by the U.S. and its allies, including the Council of Europe’s threat to suspend Russia for its war in

Chechnya, the expansion of NATO to Russia’s borders, and NATO forces’ bombing of Serbia and occupation of Kosovo.

In 2004, United Russia Senator Alexander Torshin made his first known visit to the United States of America. Torshin was known to have ties to the Federal Security Service (FSB), the intelligence agency formerly known as the KGB. Torshin also had ties to the Taganskaya mob in

Moscow going back to the mid-1990s. Torshin had previously worked as a mid-level official at Russia’s Central Bank, where he befriended one of his subordinates, Alexander Romanov.

When Torshin went into politics and became a senator, Romanov became an executive at the Rosneft

energy company and gained notoriety for engaging in illicit business with the Taganskaya mafia.

In June 2008, legendary American businessman Maurice “Hank” Greenberg’s Starr Russia Investments III fund bought 20 percent of Investtorgbank, a Russian bank. The fund paid about

$100 million for its share of Investtorgbank.
Greenberg is a major Republican donor, a former chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and the former CEO/chair of insurance and financial services giant AIG.

Greenberg was forced out of AIG in 2005 for his role in a fraudulent transaction that made the company’s financial position appear to be stronger than it really was. Greenberg is also a social friend and former client of Nixon Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.

In 1987, Greenberg appointed Kissinger as chairman of AIG’s International Advisory Board.

NRA board member David Keene joined the board of directors of the pro-Russia Center for the National Interest (CFTNI) in 2009, according to the organization’s 990 records. CFTNI was established by the administration of Republican President Richard Nixon. Its board of directors

includes former AIG CEO Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, former Nixon Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, and a Russian-born confidant of president Vladimir Putin, Dimitri Simes.

In May 2009, the Russian Ambassador to the United States, Sergey Kisylak, requested that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin meet with United Russia senator Alexander Torshin, who was visiting the state.

In August 2009, American businessman Maurice “Hank” Greenberg’s Starr Russia

Investments III fund invested an additional $8 million in the Russian bank Investtorgbank.
In 2010, Alexander Torshin, a Senator in Russian president Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party, “penned a glossy gun rights pamphlet, illustrated by cartoon figures wielding guns to fend

At a luncheon, Torshin spoke on a panel with the following U.S. Congressmen: Bill Delahunt (D-MA), Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), Carl Levin (D-MI), and Dana Rohrarbacher (R-CA). The vice-chair of the American Conservative Union, Donald Devine, spoke on a panel in the afternoon

titled “Reset in U.S.-Russia Relations.”

On October 21, 2010, the Skolkovo Foundation chaired by Victor Vekselberg held an event at their technology center outside Moscow, Russia.

In attendance were United Russia Senator Alexander Torshin and his American counsel G. Kline Preston; California Congressman Dana

Rohrabacher; assistant to the Russian president Arkady Dvorkovich, and; American Alan Page, the father of Global Energy Capital founder Carter Page. After the speeches, Vekselberg’s Renova Group signed a deal to provide financing for the maintenance of Fort Ross, a former

Russian settlement in California.

In the “President’s Column” in the September 2011 issue of the NRA’s America’s 1st Freedom magazine, David Keene announced he was appointing lawyer John Bolton to be chair of the NRA’s international affairs subcommittee. Bolton served in the

Reagan and Bush administrations, where he gained a reputation as a war hawk.

In late 2011, an enigmatic young Russian national Muria Butina founded a fake gun rights group called The Right to Bear Arms with assistance from United Russia Senator Alexander Torshin

The Right to Bear Arms was funded by oligarch Konstantin Nikolaev, a Russian billionaire with investments in U.S. energy and technology companies, from 2012 to 2014.

United Russia Senator Alexander Torshin and his “assistant” Maria Butina appeared before the Russian Senate on

July 24, 2012—just four days after the mass shooting in Aurora
On October 30, 2013, Russian agent Maria Butina picked up NRA board member and past president David Keene and his “body man,” GOP operative/NRA life member Paul Erickson, at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo International Airport

“Diplomat” John Bolton had taken a hard line against Vladimir Putin for years, but like friend and former NRA president David Keene, he changed tack entirely.

The Russian Central Bank began auditing Investtorgbank’s books in December 2014. Lawyers for American businessman Maurice “Hank” Greenberg’s fund, Starr Russia Investments III, said Investtorgbank chairman Vladimir Gudkov and others in the bank “engaged in egregious

self-dealing, frittering away tens of millions of dollars.”

[Russian spy Maria] Butina appeared to be aware that the Russian bank in which Greenberg had invested was in trouble … She approached his Starr investment empire and recommended he invest more money in the flailing

bank. The move left observers shocked and disturbed — a little-known twenty-something who was closely linked to a top official in the Russian Central Bank appeared to be telling a major American financier how to handle his Russia investments

On July 11, 2015, Russian spy Maria Butina attended FreedomFest, a gathering of libertarians in Las Vegas, Nevada where Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump and Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) were speaking. During a Q&A, Butina introduced herself as a reporter and asked

Trump a question. “I’m from Russia. My question will be about foreign politics,” Butina told him.

“Much later,” Trump campaign adviser Stephen Bannon raised the issue of Butina’s question for Trump with Republican National Committee chair Reince Priebus. “How was it that

this Russian woman happened to be in Las Vegas for that event?” Bannon asked Priebus. “

Anuzis also helped Republican mega-donor Robert Mercer set up a super PAC in 2014 and was working with the billionaire to assist Republican Senator Ted Cruz’s 2016 presidential campaign.

Patrick Byrne is the founder and chief executive of Overstock.com, a publicly traded e-commerce retailer that sells discount furniture and bedding.

The controversial founder of online retail outlet, Overstock.com, credits his “rabbi” – legendary investor Warren Buffett – with pushing him to come forward to discuss his involvement in the FBI’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election through a

romantic relationship with a Russian agent Maria Butina.
Patrick Byrne, who resigned as Overstock CEO Thursday following several explosive comments including that he helped with various investigations of government officials