Newly surfaced emails indicate that Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Russian lawyer who met with Trump campaign associates in 2016, once worked with Russia’s chief legal office in an effort to thwart the Justice Department, The New York Times reported on Friday.
In a statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee last year, Veselnitskaya said that she “operate (s) independently of any governmental bodies.” In response to a question from the committee about her relationship with Chaika, she stated, “I have no relationship with Mr. Chaika, his representatives, and institutions, other than those related to my professional functions of a lawyer.”
Deputy prosecutor-general Saak Karapetyan, 58, died in a helicopter crash
It has today been claimed that 'his death will resolve a number of very painful issues' in the Russian government.