Why stop there, don’t just let Russia “lease” Crimea like Britain’s “lease” of Hong Kong or even the US “lease” of GITMO.
The problem is always with forfeiting the damage deposit.
Because (neo-) Colonialism … or (neo-) Imperialism has bagmen much like journalists to some, are spies and “enemies of the people”.
Darn those dropping shoes, because even Russian capital, however disguised, does leave a trail.
Are we yet now close to that moment of select committees and special prosecutors.
Revenge of the Biglygate Bagmen
In late January 2017, Felix Sater met with Ukrainian opposition politician Andrey Artemenko and Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, at the Loews Regency in Manhattan to discuss a plan to lift sanctions against Russia.
The proposed plan would require that Russian forces withdraw from eastern Ukraine and that Ukraine hold a referendum on whether Crimea should be "leased" to Russia for 50 or 100 years.
Sater gave Cohen a written proposal in a sealed envelope that was delivered to then-National Security Advisor Michael T. Flynn in early February.[8]
In 1998, Sater was convicted of charges of fraud in connection to a $7.9 million penny stock pump and dump scheme through his employer, White Rock Partners. In return for a guilty plea, Sater agreed to assist the US government in issues of national security, working in Asia for the CIA.[11] He was ultimately sentenced to a $25,000 fine, and no prison time as a result of gratitude for service to his country. As a result of his assistance, Sater's court records were sealed by Loretta Lynch.[12]
Several illegal attempts have been made to extort Sater through the use of these sealed documents as evidence from a corporate hard drive by former Bayrock Group co-workers Jody Kriss and Michael Chudi Ejekam, as part of a $1 billion lawsuit against Sater, Donald Trump, and many others.[13]