Prosecutors "seized email account evidence believed to belong to the former prosecutor general of Ukraine, Yuriy Lutsenko, and two other Ukrainians as part of their investigation into whether Rudy Giuliani violated US laws against covert foreign lobbying." bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
"The other two Ukrainians whose communications were seized were Roman Nasirov, the former head of the Ukrainian Fiscal Service, and Alexander Levin, a Ukrainian businessman and Trump supporter. Their connection to the case was not immediately clear."
After Trump's election, Lev Parnas took Roman Nasirov to Mr. Trump’s Florida Mar-a-Lago resort. Nasirov ultimately helped fund a $10m loan Mr. Parnas arranged for a real state project.
Two recent developments show why it's critically important for judges and Congress to release all information relating to #TrumpRussia and expose the lies of the people involved.
First, Konstantin Kilimnick gave an interview to @aaronjmate, which was published it May 19 (on his new Substack).
Kilimnick was Paul Manafort's right-hand man in Ukraine. The US government says he's a Russian intelligence agent. mate.substack.com/p/accused-russ…
Kilimnick told Mate, among other things, he had never traveled to Spain to meet Manafort as Robert Mueller's office had claimed.
Time for another update on my #FOIA lawsuit for FBI files that link @realDonaldTrump to the investigation of Vyacheslav Ivankov, a top Russian gangster arrested in the US.
We are in a fight with the DOJ over whether revealing Trump's name or his businesses in the FBI files of a Russian vor (top-level gangster) would infringe on his privacy rights.
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Today, we filed our response to the government's motion for summary judgment (dismissal).
We have narrowed our challenges to privacy withholdings (#FOIA Exemptions 6, 7C, and 7D).
Here's an update on my #FOIA lawsuit for FBI files that link @realDonaldTrump to the investigation of Vyacheslav Ivankov, a major Russian gangster arrested in the US.
I'm represented by @MarkSZaidEsq and @BradMossEsq. The case is before Judge Amy Berman Jackson in DC.
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We appear to be in a fight over whether revealing Trump's name or his businesses in the FBI files of a Russian vor (top-level gangster) would infringe on his privacy rights.
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The government filed a motion for summary judgement last week, arguing that 150 pages were properly withheld from me under various #FOIA exemptions.
Notably, the DOJ is silent on the issue of whether Trump's name appears in the file.
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This is Kremlin propaganda running on OAN, Trump's favorite network. The voice is that of Kristian Rouz, who also worked for Sputnik, Russia's official propaganda outlet.
Here's Rouz's statement on his writing for Sputnik:
OAN describes the Ukrainian-born Rouz as a "news aggregator," who compiles and writes stories from "other sources." According to OAN, all his work goes through the network's own editorial processes.
Here, Mafia underboss Sammy "The Bull" Gravano, testifying before the Senate in 1993, explains how he would talk about boxing and construction with Donald Trump. (The "John" he references is his boss, John Gotti.)
Short thread to put the drone attack at Saudi Aramco’s Abqaiq facility in some perspective.
Abqaiq, located in eastern Saudi Arabia, is the largest crude oil processing facility in the world.
In 2018, it processed roughly half of all of Saudi’s 10.3 million barrels per day (BPD), according to Aramco’s prospectus. That’s roughly 5 million barrels per day, or one in every 20 barrels of oil used worldwide.