Eighth person in Trump Tower meeting is identified

[DonViejo]

Source: The Washington Post




By Rosalind S. Helderman July 18 at 12:05 PM

An American-based employee of a Russian real estate company took part in a June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between a Russian lawyer and Donald Trump Jr., bringing to eight the number of known participants at the session that has emerged a key focus of the investigation of the Trump campaign’s interactions with Russian.

Ike Kaveladze’s presence was confirmed by Scott Balber, an attorney for Emin and Aras Agalarov, the Russian developers who hosted the Trump-owned Miss Universe pageant in 2013. Balber said Kaveladze works for the Agalarovs’ company and attended as their representative.

Balber said Tuesday that he received a phone call from a representative of Special Counsel Robert Mueller over the weekend requesting the identity of the Agalarov representative , which he said he provided. The request is the first public indication that Mueller’s team is investigating the meeting.

Donald Trump Jr. agreed to take the meeting on the promise that he would be provided damaging information about Hillary Clinton as part of a Russian government to help his father’s presidential campaign, according to emails released by Trump Jr. last week.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/eighth-person-in-trump-tower-meeting-is-identified/2017/07/18/e971234a-6bce-11e7-9c15-177740635e83_story.html?pushid=596e3389f1dad71d0000002c&tid=notifi_push_breaking-news&utm_term=.ce0f6495b8f3

[mainer]

1. How do we know there were only eight people in the meeting?

First it was four. Then it was six. Then it was eight. For all we know, there were others.

[Leghorn21]

2. Yep. nt

[padah513]

4. +1

For all we know one of them was orange.

[Leghorn21]

5. Copy dat, pada! nt

[Eyeball_Kid]

25. Or one of them was John Barron?

[Plucketeer]

6. And then there's the speaker phone angle.

[Leghorn21]

3. Here's his linked in page for some background info (it's in both Russian and English):

https://ru.linkedin.com/in/ikekaveladze

A business executive with 10 years of financial management experience, Ike Kaveladze currently serves as Vice President of the Crocus Group in Moscow. The Crocus Group is the administrative arm of Crocus City, a trade, exhibition and entertainment space that features a hotel, a concert hall, a large indoor mall, and a number of small shops and restaurants.

Ike Kaveladze’s responsibilities with the Crocus Group include investment project development, regional business planning, and comprehensive tax preparation. Initially hired by the company as an analyst in 2004, Mr. Kaveladze was promoted to Vice President after five years of dedicated service. Due in part to his ongoing efforts, the Crocus Group recently refinanced a $550 million company loan portfolio at a substantially lower rate. This resulted in direct annual savings for Crocus totaling approximately $20 million.

In addition to his work as a business administrator, Ike Kaveladze is an experienced public speaker and presenter who has been featured at a number of industry conferences and special events. In 2002, Mr. Kaveladze appeared at the RBC’s 6th International Conference in Geneva and at the Southern Connecticut Chapter of the Tasters Guild International in New Haven, Connecticut.

Outside of the office, Ike Kaveladze volunteers with the Moscow Regional School for Blind Children. He also provides ongoing financial support to several large social service organizations including Save the Children and Hospice.ru, a Russian foundation that supports hospices for cancer patients. Mr. Kaveladze holds an undergraduate degree in Economics from the Moscow Academy of Finance in Russia and a Master of Business Administration from the University of New Haven in Connecticut.

[PRETZEL]

12. Isn't the Crocus Group Agalarov's organization? nt

[Leghorn21]

13. Totally:

http://www.crocusgroup.com/crocus/management/

[jpak]

7. But the Trumpsters said he was an American

More lies.

On edit: Maybe he worked with the Russian mob to launder $$$ through US real estate.

[kentuck]

8. Real estate, huh?

Hmmmmm....

[turbinetree]

9. I wonder if he knows Wilbur Ross and has visited Cyprus, lately?

[Hortensis]

17. Good wonder, or how many degrees of separation and who?

Hard to imagine it would be more than one, but they all link to Putin.

[turbinetree]

21. Everything that these two crime organizations have in common is that everything

went through Cyprus and then there is Wilbur Ross , coincidence, me thinks not, convenience yes.

[Eyeball_Kid]

27. Looks like an international cabal of money launderers, Trumpy included.

Mr. Mueller is likely aware and focusing on this torpedo.

[Hortensis]

30. Yes, Mueller and several of his hotshots. I don't believe

Ross is coincidence either, although a reputable publication had an entire article about how he actually came in and cleaned that Cyprus bank up, including getting rid of whatshisface. If so, though, what's he doing involved with this crowd?

[byronius]

10. Every member on the opposite side of the table had some specific purpose.

The op-ed from the intelligence guy in the Washington Post that said the meeting was a classic Russian intelligence operation. I wonder what Kaveladze brought to the table.

Maybe he was just cover, to put the Trumps at ease. Someone they had met, or knew through the Agalarovs.

[Cosmocat]

11. Clearly by his resume someone well versed in child adoption

cause ...

a half dozen lies ago that was what the meeting was about.

[mainer]

14. Lotta people there to talk adoptions. Umm, not to be twisted but...

What are those Russian orphans REALLY meant for?

[rzemanfl]

16. The pedophile sex slave operation on Mars? n/t

[angrychair]

22. DUzy!

[mr_lebowski]

29. "Adoptions" is, pretty sure, this criminal group's code word for Magnitsky Act/Assc'd Sanctions ...

Mueller, when scouring NSA records, should be MASSIVELY flagging the word 'adoptions' at this point.

[rzemanfl]

15. They haven't even begun to list the people who were on Skype.

[neohippie]

18. Follow the money this is bigly

It looks like this is interesting link


https://mobile.nytimes.com/2000/11/29/business/laundering-of-money-seen-as-easy.html

A Congressional inquiry has found that it is ''relatively easy'' for foreigners to hide their identities and form shell companies here that can launder money through American banks.

In a a nine-month inquiry that subpoenaed bank records, the investigators found that an unknown number of Russians and other East Europeans moved more than $1.4 billion through accounts at Citibank of New York and the Commercial Bank of San Francisco.

The accounts had been opened by Irakly Kaveladze, who immigrated to the United States from Russia in 1991, according to Citibank and Mr. Kaveladze. He set up more than 2,000 corporations in Delaware for Russian brokers and then opened the bank accounts for them, without knowing who owned the corporations, according to the report by the General Accounting Office, which has not been made public.

The report said the banks had failed to conduct any ''due diligence'' into identifying the owners of the accounts.

Late this afternoon, Citibank sent a 15-page letter to the G.A.O., saying that it had closed the accounts after being contacted by G.A.O. investigators earlier this year.

''It is clear in hindsight that our systems and tracking procedures were not sufficient to detect the nature and extent of his relationship with us,'' the bank said, referring to Mr. Kaveladze. The letter, signed by the general counsel, Michael A. Ross, for the Global Consumer Business at Citigroup Inc., went on, ''Given enhancements to our systems and procedures, we are confident that we would detect questionable activity and take action more promptly should a similar situation arise today.''

[mobeau69]

19. Another Russian!

whodathunkit?

[33taw]

20. Reince Preibus entered the building at around 10:50 AM - any idea what time he left the building?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

23. Guess it wasn't Dolt 45

[neohippie]

24. Mueller is already on this

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/07/18/robert-mueller-is-now-the-ninth-person-in-donald-trump-jr-s-russia-meeting/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-low_8thman-1225pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.9172ec03e96f

[Sunlei]

26. on to the 9th, 10th, 11th add in the entire Republican party & Putins gang on skype at the resort.

[displacedtexan]

28. A lot of people sure went to a lot of trouble to keep this guy's name secret.

And the piss poor excuse for his attendance: he thought he was there to translate and didn't know the woman already had a translator? Seriously? What a crock of Trumpshit!

[Yavin4]

31. Exclusive photo of the people in that meeting