This Is Why Natalia Veselnitskaya Was in New York

[deminks]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/this-is-why-natalia-veselnitskaya-was-in-new-york?via=twitter_page

Just before her now-infamous meeting on June 9 of last year with Donald Trump Jr. at Trump Tower, Russian attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya was in court as a former U.S. attorney general tried to pull off an audacious legal maneuver against the U.S. government.

The meeting, arranged after Trump Jr. was offered information to “incriminate Hillary” as part “of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump,” had originally been scheduled for 3 p.m., but was moved back an hour because “the Russian government attorney” had to be in court that afternoon, according to the email thread arranging it.

That was the same day that Michael Mukasey, who served as attorney general under George W. Bush, appeared before a panel of three judges on the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to argue that Prevezon—the Kremlin-tied company then charged with hiding a fraction of a $230 million Russian tax scheme in Manhattan luxury real estate—should be allowed to keep a lawyer it had effectively poached from the other side.

Veselnitskaya, who represented the company’s owner as it prepared to defend itself at trial, did not register an official appearance with the appeals court, and the SDNY declined to comment on her presence there. A recording of the proceeding, obtained by The Daily Beast, makes clear that both of her stops in Manhattan that day—in court and then in Trump Tower—were part of the same aggressive Kremlin campaign to try and overturn the Magnitsky Act, which infuriated President Vladimir Putin by imposing sanctions on 44 prominent Russians.

Ultimately the panel ruled against Prevezon, deeming the circumstances were “truly are extraordinary” and removing the lawyer, saying his presence would “taint” the trial.

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[Gabi Hayes]

1. Was this preet b's case, that

settled for 6 mil?

[atreides1]

2. I believe it was!

[Ellipsis]

3. Bi-la Kaifa

I had no idea how many terms from Dune were taken from Arabic.

[Shell_Seas]

4. Yes, it absolutely was.

The same case that Sessions settled for $6million after Preet was fired.

Prevezon is the name of the company.

[Gabi Hayes]

5. Is there any way to revisit the settlement, or to

nail Sessions on some corruption charge?

RICO?

[L. Coyote]

6. What was the Quid Pro Quo?

You can just imagine how compromised Sessions is after lying about his meetings with Russia's spy master, especially since they no doubt record of all their meetings with American politicians.

[Sunlei]

7. she lied on her work visa about her reason she is 'working' in USA. Thats a crime and

people can't enter again for 6 years? right?

no 'special treatment' just because she's a Russian "friend" for Republican party? they don't smuggle work-visa fraudsters into America do they?

[DallasNE]

8. And the Trump Justice Department

Settled the case for a piddling $6 million and at the same time sealing the case from the public in another win for Putin.