Remember when Trump reduced sanctions against Deripaska's company, Rusal, w/ McConnell's support?

Is Braidy Industries of Kentucky getting in bed with Russian mobsters?

Kentucky might be going into business with the Russian mafia.

If all goes according to plan, by the middle of the year, we’ll be in business with Oleg Deripaska, a buddy of Vladimir Putin.

He could be sending $200 million — if you believe media reports — in what could very well be mobbed-up money to northeastern Kentucky to build a $1.7 billion aluminum plant on an old strip mine there.

The United States government, according to the New York Times, has long believed that Deripaska has deep ties to Russian organized crime — the Bratva — so much so it has limited his travel here and prohibited him from doing business in this country.

https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/joseph-gerth/2019/04/22/braidy-industries-kentucky-lands-russian-investor-connected-to-mob/3508198002/

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Remember when Trump reduced sanctions against Deripaska's company, Rusal, w/ McConnell's support? (Original post)	octoberlib	Apr 2019	OP
Russia, Kentucky, McConnell and Paul.	elleng	Apr 2019	#1
I forgot about Rand Paul. I think this is called payback.	octoberlib	Apr 2019	#2
mcconnell is dirty	spanone	Apr 2019	#3
Oh, about one aluminum mill...or, our democracy. Bout the same, morally, if you're the Russian Mob..	Volaris	Apr 2019	#8
You know who McConnell is married to, right?	MelissaB	Apr 2019	#4
Thanks for this! I'd never heard of his brother in law.	octoberlib	Apr 2019	#6
I hadn't, either.	MelissaB	Apr 2019	#7
Damn, only an opinion column. Someone needs do do a little investigative reporting on this...	PeeJ52	Apr 2019	#5
K&R	UTUSN	Apr 2019	#9

Response to octoberlib (Original post)

Mon Apr 22, 2019, 04:46 PM

elleng (104,520 posts)

1. Russia, Kentucky, McConnell and Paul.

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Mon Apr 22, 2019, 04:49 PM

octoberlib (13,678 posts)

2. I forgot about Rand Paul. I think this is called payback.

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Mon Apr 22, 2019, 04:51 PM

spanone (125,508 posts)

3. mcconnell is dirty

don & mitch will probably do well in the transaction ...wonder what a 'sanction lift' costs?

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Mon Apr 22, 2019, 07:31 PM

Volaris (8,540 posts)

8. Oh, about one aluminum mill...or, our democracy. Bout the same, morally, if you're the Russian Mob..

Or Mitch fucking McConnell.

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Mon Apr 22, 2019, 04:56 PM

MelissaB (15,938 posts)

4. You know who McConnell is married to, right?

Here is his brother-in-law who is married to Elaine Chao's sister:

https://www.reddit.com/r/RussiaLago/comments/a34y7i/mitch_mcconnells_brotherinlaw_one_of_the/?st=JURLTHB7&sh=7f0c77a2&depth=2

For people who haven't seen this, click the link and look at the documentation.

Funny how we keep seeing links between Russia and China.