Newly Uncovered Payments By Russian Embassy Are A Focus Of Mueller Probe: Sergey Kislyak received $120K ten days after the election of Trump. Bankers flagged it to US Gov't as suspicious because, marked as payroll, it didn’t fit prior pay patterns.
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^ @benjaminwittes: "@a_cormier_ & @JasonLeopold took a lot of criticism for their earlier story on wire transfers to the Russian embassy...that story warranted more consideration than it was receiving. This followup emphasizes that."
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^ Nov 14, 2017 piece referenced above: FBI scrutinizes more than 60 money transfers sent by the Russian Foreign Ministry to its embassies across the globe, bearing a note that said the money was to be used “to finance election campaign of 2016.”
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^ [via @mattmittenthal] Kremlin's response to newly uncovered Russian payments [including $120K to Kislyak] as focus of Mueller probe: Question BuzzFeed's legitimacy & attack US intel community for leaks. Straight out of the TrumPutin Playbook.
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^ HT @WendySiegelman for alerting me to this very informative thread by @YesMomsCan on #FinCEN suspicious activity reports [SARs].
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