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Viktor Vekselberg, Russian Billionaire, Was Questioned by Mueller’s Investigators in May 2018 NYT story
Investigators follow $ to Trump from donors w/Russian ties, Blavatnik, Kukes, Intrater, all connected to Vekselberg
Vekselberg attended Trump's inauguration
In 2014 Ivanka Trump attended a gala in Moscow with Wendi Deng, and guests Len Blavatnik and Viktor Vekselberg
Vekselberg and Len Blavatnik own 15.8% of recently sanctioned aluminum company RUSAL, majority owned by Oleg Deripaska, Paul Manafort's former business partner
Vekselberg is in Putin's inner circle
In 2013 Blavatnik & Vekselberg with Alfa Bank's Fridman and Khan sold TNK-BP to Rosneft for $28 Billion
Vekselberg was largest shareholder in Bank of Cyprus when Wilbur Ross was Vice Chairman
Former CIA director Deutch on board of Vekselberg's Renova Group with criminal convicted in UN oil/food scam
Rosneft chart showing Viktor Vekselberg connected to Blavatnik, Deripaska's Rusal, Wilbur Ross, and other key people in the Trump-Russia story
medium.com/@wsiegelman/ro…
Should note per @McFaul that Vekselberg's relationship to Putin is complex
Vekselberg is also President of the Skolkovo Foundation - a Moscow-based non-profit supporting entrepreneurship, innovation and encouraging venture capitalism - and he was appointed in 2010, by then-President Dmitry Medvedev
sk.ru/foundation/tea…
Link in top tweet is broken, here's @MichaelAvenatti doc
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Exclusive: Special counsel Robert Mueller sought information and met last year in February with Tony Fabrizio — one of Donald Trump's campaign pollsters who is also Paul Manafort’s former business associate, by @SaraMurray @kpolantz cnn.com/2019/01/10/pol…
Fabrizio was referenced a couple of times in the EDVA government exhibit list for Paul Manafort related to emails from 2012 that included Manafort, Rick Gates and Konstantin Kilimnik
More on Fabrizio from @MsEnergyHealer
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Two stories today about UAE selling off two huge NYC real estate investments

One story is about Abu Dhabi government fund & Tishman Speyer putting the Chrysler Building on the market - Abu Dhabi Investment Council had paid $800 million for a 90% stake
therealdeal.com/2019/01/09/abu…
And a majority stake in 330 Madison Ave owned by the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority is heading to the sales market at pricing expected to reach nearly $1 billion
nypost.com/2019/01/08/mos…
I don't know that these two sales have any significance, but the size of the deals seems notable and worth keeping an eye on.
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Manafort intended for polling data to go to Ukrainian oligarchs Serhiy Lyovochkin & Rinat Akhmetov - Manafort wrote in an August '16 email he expected $2.4 million payment in Nov 2016 for work done in Ukraine - from backers including Lyovochkin & Akhmetov
cnn.com/2019/01/09/pol…
In addition to hiring Paul Manafort in Ukraine and working together for over a decade, Rinat Akhmetov has several business ties with Alex Shnaider who was Donald Trump's partner in developing the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Toronto
In '09 Alex Shnaider & Eduard Shyfrin's company Midland Resources sold Ukrainian Zaporizhstal steel mill for $850 mil in '09 financed by VEB, $40mil from sale was earmarked for Trump Toronto & @tomburgis reported $50 mil penalty was owed to Rinat Akhmetov
ft.com/trumptoronto
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Russian Oligarch Viktor Vekselberg
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-Allegedly paid 500K to Michael Cohen just before the 2016 election.
-Business/personal associate of Vladimir Putin.
-Part of #Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling.

#CohenCrimeFamily

https:bloomberg.com/news/features/…
Viktor Vekselberg cont.

-Shareholder & chairman of the board of Renova, an aluminum company controlled by Oleg Deripaska.

-Received economic sanctions earlier this year “for activities including election interference.”

-Attended #Trump’s inauguration.

#Cohen #Russia
Viktor Vekselberg cont.

-Attended a dinner in Moscow for RT where #Flynn was also in attendance and reportedly sat beside Putin.

- Vekselberg’s private jet was detained by the FBI earlier this year, “as part of the Mueller investigation.”

#FBISawThisComing #FBI
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💣BOOM💣

THREAD: Michael Cohen met w/#Russian🇷🇺oligarch Viktor Vekselberg & Andrew Intrater (head of Vekselberg’s US subsidiary, Columbus Nova) at Trump Tower JUST DAYS before the inauguration to discuss US-#Russian🇷🇺relations‼️ 1/

#TrumpRussia

nyti.ms/2GOyajJ
Intrater, who attended the meeting, says that they discussed a “mutual desire to strengthen #Russia’s🇷🇺relations w/the US under Trump.🤨

The men also arranged to see one another at the inauguration, the second of their THREE meetings‼️ 2/

#TrumpRussia
Days after the inauguration, Intrater’s firm, Columbus Nova (invests Vekselberg’s💰in the US), gave Cohen a $1 million consulting contract & has paid him at least $500,000.🤨

Intrater claims Vekselberg—his cousin & BIGGEST client—had “no role” in hiring Cohen.🙄 3/
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THREAD

#Trump #GOP #RussianMoney #Putin #Oligarchs #ElectionFraud
1.Len #Blavatnik owns a company called Al-Altep Holdings and #AccessIndustries, and has contributed vast amounts of money to the #GOP,#Trump, inclusive of 1 Million to the Inauguration of #Trump

#Trump #GOP #RussianMoney #Putin #Oligarchs #ElectionFraud

1a).Oxford University criticised for accepting #Blavatnik £75m donation
Institution should ‘stop selling its reputation to #Putin’s associates’ and rethink cash from Len #Blavatnik

theguardian.com/education/2015…

#Trump #GOP #RussianMoney #Putin #Oligarchs #ElectionFraud
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NEW: Stormy Daniels' Lawyer @MichaelAvenatti alleges $130K payment to his client made by Michael Cohen may have been reimbursed by company of Russian oligarch with ties to Putin:
Document by Stormy Daniels' lawyer @MichaelAvenatti alleges the Russian oligarch is Viktor Vekselberg.

Vekselberg was sanctioned by U.S. treasury on April 6. + Vekselberg has reportedly been questioned by Mueller's investigators
On #TheBeat @MichaelAvenatti asked former Trump campaign aide Sam Nunberg about whether Michael Cohen ever sold "access" to Trump (watch here: bit.ly/2K3kumU)
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Trump Hotels' website still lists Trump SoHo New York among its properties in the Our Hotels menu. Select its name though to access its page and there's a message about it being renamed

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National politics correspondent for Newsweek, Nina Burleigh, with a fun find on a TV above the bar at the Trump Hotel DC bit.ly/2E37QRR
Two errors in the 2nd graf of Breitbart's Trump Hotel DC article:
-holdings aren't out of @realDonaldTrump's hands: trust isn't blind & he can profit from it
-Trump Org told Congress it was estimating foreign receipts—not auto donating in full
bit.ly/2CpL7z2
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