Another Cabinet Pick with Secret Ties to Putin and Oligarchs
Source: DCReport.org
A study prepared exclusively for DCReport.org by James S. Henry reveals deep financial ties between Donald Trumps nominee for Commerce secretary, Wilbur Ross, and three Russian oligarchs, whose lives and fortunes depend on staying in the good graces of Vladimir Putin.
These connections raise many new questions about Trumps reliance on the Putin regime, which all 17 U.S. intelligence agencies say interfered in the presidential election on Trumps behalf, but which Trump disputes.
These relationships between nominee Ross and the oligarchs involve ownership and management of a European bank with a reputation for laundering Russian money and making bad loans.
The study also compared flight records of Trumps campaign plane and a plane used by one of the oligarchs. During the campaign, the two planes often were at the same airports at the same time.
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Read more: https://www.dcreport.org/2017/02/25/another-cabinet-pick-with-secret-ties-to-putin-and-oligarchs/
That story links to the full report here:
Wilbur Ross Comes to D.C. With an Unexamined History of Russian Connections
https://www.dcreport.org/wilbur-ross-comes-to-d-c-with-a-long-and-profitable-history-of-russian-connections/?preview_id944
A very small excerpt of that very long report, this one about the odd flight patterns of an oligarch-owed plane, which various people on Twitter including Louise Mensch have been noticing for a while:
[div class"excerpt"]For our purposes, the intriguing thing is that this plane, normally based in Moscow and Switzerland, can be tracked. According the flight logs available from FlightRadar24, it made numerous flights all over the U.S. from August 2016 through November 2016, the peak season for the U.S. 2016 Presidential campaign of course right at the moment when Moscow was supposedly trying to jack the election on Trumps behalf.
Moreover, in at least three cases, Airbus A319M-KATE showed up at very same airports, where candidate Trump was in the North Carolina cities of Charlotte and Concord and in Las Vegas, for example. Indeed, in the case of Charlotte, local photographers took pictures of M-KATE and the Trump campaign jet at the very same airport on November 3, 2016. During a presidential campaign close aides often arrive before and after the candidate, times that overlap with the Rybolovlev jet in several cities.
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Indeed, earlier this month on Friday, Feb. 10 2017 Rybolovlevs Airbus A319 M-KATE flew all the way from Switzerland to Miami. That airport is near where the White House said that the president was partying with hedge fund mogul Steven Schwartzman in Palm Beach on Saturday night. Rybolovlevs jet returned to Switzerland on February 12, flight records show.
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Why would Rybolovlevs plane scurry back and forth from Moscow to odd destinations like Charlotte and Concord, as well as to Las Vegas, New York, Burbank, and Miami, to arrive there precisely when Trump was there? The obvious question: was Rybolovlev a Putin emissary?
Editing to add that I found this story thanks to a tweet from David Cay Johnston:
Link to tweet
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It's going to take a lot of purging to get this under control, and I'm afraid it may come to a war or two before that happens. 
Read that again, my friend. 
except to those picking an unworthy fight. (*hint* we're on the same side!)
the shade of Ronald Reagan is rising from the grave to chastise & curse the latter day republicans as they PISS all over America, and over almost everything he represented.
