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Alex van der Zwaan is accused of lying to investigators re his interactions w/ Rick Gates & "Person A" and of deleting & failing to produce emails btwn him & Person A to Mueller. van der Zwaan also secretly recorded phone calls with Gates & Person A.
#Maddow
Alex van der Zwaan [charged by Mueller with lying to the FBI re contacts w/ex-Trump campaign official Rick Gates] is the son-in-law of German Khan, co-founder [along w/Mikhail Fridman] of Russian mafia-linked Alfa Bank [of Trump Tower server fame].
#Maddow cnb.cx/2FfOwme
ICYMI: Alex Van Der Zwaan, was 1 of 8 @SkaddenArps attys involved in writing a report commissioned by ex-Trump campaign mgr, Paul Manafort, that whitewashed Yanukovych's record. Manafort's daughter was an assoc at Skadden, Arps.
via @kenvogel #Maddow
Manafort asked Skadden attys [including Alex Van Der Zwaan, son-in-law of Russian oligarch German Khan, owner of Alfa Bank → linked to RU mafia boss Mogilevich] to write a report clearing Yanukovych of prosecuting his political rival Tymoshenko.
#Maddow nyti.ms/2BESqVZ
Recall: In 2011, Tymoshenko sued Manafort, along w/ his biz partner Zackson [Fred Trump's former aide], Russian mafia boss Mogilevich, & oligarch/RU mobster Dmitry Firtash, alleging their $885M Drake Hotel project was a money laundering operation.
#Maddow
Manafort's alliance with Dmitry Firtash & Russian mafia boss Mogilevich to acquire the Drake Hotel also involved Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, according to a 2008 memo written by Rick Gates to Deripaska associates [uncovered in Aug 2017].
#Maddow
BREAKING: Skadden, Arps atty Alex Van Der Zwaan [who worked for Manafort 6 years ago] is set to plead guilty to false statement about his communication with Rick Gates in Mueller's Russia probe & has arrived at FBI DC field office for booking.
#Maddow
ICYMI: Alex Van Der Zwaan's father-in-law, Russian oligarch German Khan, is a co-founder of Russian mafia-linked Alfa Bank, which is mentioned in the Steele dossier. Alfa founders Khan, Fridman, & Aven are suing Buzzfeed for publishing the dossier.
#Maddow
In Sep, Mueller obtained Manafort files from a 2014 FBI opo tracking international kleptocracy whose target was Manafort-Gates client, Ukrainian Pres Yanukovych. Mueller's had this info since Sep but didn't charge Alex Van Der Zwaan until Feb 13 😉
#Maddow
Mueller's latest guilty plea may signal that he's ramping up pressure on Paul Manafort. Until Sep 2017, Alex Van Der Zwaan was an atty at Skadden law firm, which is also under DOJ scrutiny for Manafort's laundering scheme & cooperating w/ Mueller.
#Maddow theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
Alex van der Zwaan's Plea Agreement & Statement of Offense are both are dated Feb 14. His proffer agreement is dated Dec 1, 2017 😏
Plea agreement: assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4383…
Statement of offense: assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4383…
via @zoetillman #Maddow buzzfeed.com/zoetillman/the…
Note: 11 days after Alex van der Zwaan's proffer agreement with Mueller, ATB, the Dutch subsidiary of Russia's Alfa Bank [owned by his father-in-law, Russian oligarch German Khan, Fridman & Aven], was raided in money laundering investigation.
#Maddow
Mueller team's Weissmann oversaw DOJ fraud case against VimpelCom [owned by Alfa Bank's Fridman, Aven, & Alex van der Zwaan's father-in-law, Khan]. Vimpelcom was charged w/bribery, using accounts from Alfa/ATB bank [raideded in laundering probe] 😏
#Maddow
ICYMI: On Feb 22, 2016, then-DOJ fraud section chief Weissmann & VimpelCom [owned by Alfa Bank founders Fridman, Aven, & Alex van der Zwaan's father-in-law, German Khan] entered into a Deferred Prosecution Agreement & VimpelCom paid a $460M fine.
#Maddow fcpa.stanford.edu/enforcement-ac…
Coincidently, in 2010 when Paul Manafort's longtime client, Viktor Yanukovych, was almost beaten by political rival Yulia Tymoshenko in the Ukrainian presidential race, they decided to #LockHerUp. Seriously, you can't make this up.
@maddow #Maddow
MARCH 2013: A small group of bankers & lawyers gathered in Deutsche Bank offices to monitor the transfer of nearly $28B from Russia's state-owned Rosneft to 4 oligarchs: Fridman, Vekselberg, Blavatnik & Van der Zwaan's father-in-law, German Khan.
#Maddow forbes.com/sites/nathanva…
Person A: VAN DER ZWAAN claimed his last comms w/Person A [longtime Manafort & Gates' Ukraine business assoc] in 2014. BUT, at Gates request in Sep 2016, VDZ called Person A & discussed in Russian that charges might be brought against an ex-Ukrainian Justice Minister. 1/2
#Maddow
Sep 1, 2016: Criminal charges were brought against ex-Ukrainian Justice Minister Lavynovych over how Skadden was paid for the "Manafort paper"

GOTCHA: Van der Zwaan's "Person A" is Dmytro Firtash
[Ukraine biz assoc of Manafort & Gates + Lavynovych's political backer] 2/2
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THREAD: In light of the Trump admin lifting sanctions on Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska's companies, recall that Trump's campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, conspired with Deripaska during the 2016 campaign with help from Russian intelligence operative Konstantin Kilimnik.
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JUL 7, 2016: Manafort offers Deripaska private campaign briefings then meets with Kilimnik re the same on Aug 2.

AUG 11, 2016 email from Manafort's CPA: "Paul has indicated $2.4M in fees earned, but not yet received. Expected to be deposited Nov 2016 [post election?]."
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JUL 29, 2016 email from Russian intelligence operative Kilimnik to Manafort [days after Trump accepts GOP nomination]: "I met today with [Deripaska]. I have important messages from him to you. He asked me to go & brief you on our conversation."
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JUN 15, 2016
McCARTHY: There’s two people, I think, Putin pays – Rohrabacher and Trump...swear to God.

RYAN: This is an off the record [laughter] NO LEAKS...alright?! This is how we know we’re a real family.

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JUN 15, 2016, @GOPLeader Kevin McCarthy to Paul Ryan, @SteveScalise, and other GOP: "There’s...there’s two people, I think, Putin pays. Rohrabacher and Trump...swear to God."

@Evan_McMullin was there and confirmed it was not a joke.
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Per @Evan_McMullin: One senior GOP leader [that's you, @GOPLeader!] dolefully informed his peers that he thought Trump was on the Kremlin’s payroll and had been compromised by Russian intelligence. Other GOP leaders were surprised but did not dispute him.
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CORRECTION: Manafort told Kilimnik to pass TRUMP polling data not to Deripaska but to Ukrainian oligarchs Rinat Akhmetov & Serhiy Lyovochkin, who funneled $50K to Trump's inaugural & is business partner to Dmytro Firtash [top-tier comrade of Russian mob boss Mogilevich].
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FYI: Rick Gates testified that between 2010-2013, former Yanukovych CoS Serhiy Lyovochkin funneled $42M to Paul Manafort. At the time, Lyovochkin was business partner to Dmytro Firtash [top-tier comrade of Russian mob boss, Semion Mogilevich].
#Maddow kyivpost.com/ukraine-politi…
In his plea deal, Sam Patten, US business partner of Konstantin Kilimnik [Russian GRU associate of Manafort & Gates] who worked for Cambridge Analytica in 2014, said a Ukranian oligarch [Serhiy Lyovochkin] funneled $50K into Trump's inaugural fund.
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The Special Counsel's Office Has Charged A Lawyer Working For The Ukrainian Government With Lying To The FBI.
Alex van der Zwaan is scheduled to appear in court for a plea hearing on Tuesday afternoon.

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Alex van der Zwaan is to appear in court for a plea deal, has arrived to court with lawyers. Plea deal reads as if he may have given up info for leniency in charges.
Defendant is Alex Van Der Zwaan, Ukrainian lawyer, charged with making false statements to the special counsel and FBI. assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4382…
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