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"One of Manafort’s biggest clients was the dubious pro-Russian Ukrainian billionaire Dmytro Firtash. By his own admission, Firtash maintains strong ties with a recurrent figure on this scene, the reputed Ukrainian/Russian mob boss Semion Mogilevich." the-american-interest.com/2016/12/19/the…
"Firtash is being prosecuted for what federal prosecutors in Chicago say was his role in bribing Indian officials in order to get a lucrative mining deal to sell titanium to Boeing."
"And Dan Webb, who also signed the Amicus brief, is representing Mogilevich lieutenant Dmitry Firtash"
The center of the intercepts in the Firtash-Boeing case? Manafort.
Dmitry Firtash hired Jack Abramoff to "thwart U.S. requests for his extradition."
Firtash's lawyer, former U.S. attorney Dan Webb of Chicago.
It looks the U.K. is taking notice of Firtash's real estate money laundering
Cambridge Analytica's parent company SCL group lists Simion Mogilevich boss Dmitry Firtash as a board member alongside the Mercers.
Rick Gates also worked for GTECH and he & Manafort were "sued" by Oleg Deripaska and previously (dismissed) by Dmitry Firtash.
assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2814…
Trump, Putin, Russia: The Ties That Bind Chabad, Russian Mafia, and Semion Mogilevich
Semion Mogilevich, terrorist arms dealer
Mogilevich sold weapons to the Taliban and Pakistan. Note that Bin Laden was found in Pakistan.
And Mogilevich and Rybolovlev ownership in Alfa Bank. Let's not forget Wilbur Ross, director at Bank of Cyprus.
1993 there was a secret Hamas meeting busted in Philadelphia. Mogilevich was one of the first supporters of Jihadis.
"Mogilevich had already had two major mob lieutenants who had bought units in Trump Tower in Manhattan: David Bogatin and Vyacheslav Ivankov, and Bogatin personally dealt directly with Donald Trump." linkedin.com/pulse/1995-gan…
"After [Bogatin] fled the country, the government seized his five condos at Trump Tower, saying that he had purchased them to “launder money, to shelter and hide assets.”"

newrepublic.com/article/143586…
"Ivankov was the enforcer—a vor v zakone, or “made man,” infamous for torturing his victims and boasting about the murders he had arranged. Sprung by Mogilevich, Ivankov made the most of his freedom."
"The FBI concluded that one of Ivankov’s partners in the operation was Felix Komarov, an upscale art dealer who lived in Trump Plaza on Third Avenue."
"Putin-linked Semion Mogilevich, at least through Felix Sater, the son of a Mogilevich capo—in connection with this Ukrainian plot, a major money laundering real-estate deal in Manhattan, and a major Trump real estate deal that was also in Manhattan"
linkedin.com/pulse/exclusiv…
"Felix Sater, was a Mogilevich lieutenant"
theguardian.com/us-news/2017/j…
"Felix Sater, an ex-con and one-time senior adviser in the Trump Organization, helped the Trump family scout deals in Russia. He led an effort that began in 2012 to assist the stepchildren of Viktor Khrapunov"
"Sater is believed to be providing information about a money laundering operation based in the former Soviet Republic of Kazakhstan which involved Trump properties." independent.co.uk/voices/paul-ma…
Poisoned KGB Agent Said Putin Has A 'Good Relationship' With One Of The World's Top Mobsters

businessinsider.com/semion-mogilev…
'[Firtash] has deep ties to Russia, having profited from deals with gas giant Gazprom and businessmen from the inner circle of President Vladimir Putin" bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
"Mogilevich had been detained under one of his many aliases, Sergei Schneider. He uses 17 other names and holds passports from several different countries, they added, including Ukraine, Russia  and Israel" theguardian.com/world/2008/jan…
Derkach: ."He’s on good terms with Putin. He and Putin have been in contact since Putin was still in Leningrad."

Kuchma: "I hope we won’t have any problems because of this."

Derkach: "They have their own affairs" jamestown.org/program/the-st…
"Another document linking Mogilevich to Andras Knopf, the executive director of Eural Trans Gas, the Hungarian gas intermediary company created by Firtash to act as the middleman in the transit of Turkmen gas to Ukraine"
Former FBI Director William Sessions, fired by Bill Clinton, represented both Semion Mogilevich and Oleg Deripaska.
"Deripaska, Mogilevich Hired Top U.S. Lobbyists"

"Deripaska paid Dole's law firm, Alston & Bird, $300,000 in 2003 for activities involving "U.S. Department of State visa policies and procedures," according to lobby filings with the U.S. Senate." old.themoscowtimes.com/sitemap/free/2…
Timeline of Crimea seizure updated in court hearing of Yanukovych treason case
unian.info/politics/23225…


"Tad Devine worked with Paul Manafort on Viktor Yanukovych’s 2010 presidential campaign, but backed away after the election, when Yanukovych began clamping down on dissent."
politico.com/gallery/2014/0…
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