Russian lawyer who met with top Trump campaign officials says Mueller hasn't contacted her. ... Senators alarmed by Russian influence on U.S. politics.
Jul 12, 2017 · Natalia Veselnitskaya, a lawyer for a powerful Russian oligarch and government official, met with Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner and then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort on June 9, 2016, at Trump Tower, according to emails Trump Jr. released Tuesday.Veselnitskaya never delivered the damaging information on Clinton, Trump Jr. told The New York Times. . But …
The Russian lawyer who met with top Trump campaign officials at Trump Tower brought with her a memo that echoed Kremlin talking points. The man whom the …
Apr 19, 2019 · I n his highly-anticipated, 448-page report released on Thursday, special counsel Robert Mueller laid out in painstaking detail the Trump campaign’s willingness to engage with Russian officials ...
Within two months of taking over as chairman, he met in New York with Konstantin Kilimnik, a long-time business associate believed to have ties to Russian intelligence, according to a court filing unsealed in January 2019.
Mifsud also told Papadopoulos that the Russians had “dirt” on candidate Hillary Clinton in the form of thousands of emails. Papadopoulos eventually pleaded guilty to making false statements to FBI agents and served time in federal prison.
A short time later, the inexperienced Papadopoulos connected with Joseph Mifsud, a Maltese professor in London. Mifsud, who investigators say has “substantial” ties to the Kremlin, met with Papadopoulos again 10 days later along with a woman he introduced as Putin’s niece, to discuss arranging a meeting between Trump and Putin.
In January of 2017, Erik Prince, the brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and the founder of the private military contractor formerly known as Blackwater, traveled to Seychelles and met with Kirill Dmitriev, the head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, to allegedly help develop a working back-channel.
Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, the CIA’s former chief of the Europe division in the directorate of operations, who is now at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center, says it should not be surprising that the Mueller report is not conclusive in the case for collusion.