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The Russian lawyer Veselnitskaya who represented Russian Government’s interest in the Trump Tower meeting of 2016 was just “charged with criminal obstruction of justice in a federal civil case in Manhattan.”
Turns out her obstruction was directly related to the Magnitsky travesty, and the subsequent US legal proceedings to reacquire the NY assets caught up in the Prevezon Money-Laundering case.
Veselnitskaya claimed to be representing the Russian Government’s interest again in this on-going civil suit, as she claimed she was providing the “investigative findings by the Russian government that exonerated her client.”
Russian lawyer at Trump Tower meeting charged with obstruction in civil suit
Natalia Veselnitskaya was at the 2016 Trump Tower meeting convened after Trump campaign officials were promised dirt on Hillary Clinton.
by Tom Winter, NBC News — Jan 8, 2019
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In the Prevezon case, the government accused Prevezon of laundering part of the proceeds of an alleged tax fraud scheme uncovered by Sergei Magnitsky, a Russia accountant who had helped report the fraud to Russian authorities and was later arrested.
Magnitsky died in prison, and in 2012 President Barack Obama signed the Magnitsky Act, which sanctioned Russian officials believed responsible for his death. At the 2016 Trump Tower meeting, which was convened after a Trump associate told Donald Trump Jr. that a group of Russians had dirt on Hillary Clinton, Veselnitskaya pressed Trump campaign officials on lifting the Magnitsky sanctions.
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According to prosecutors, emails show that Veselnitskaya helped draft the report.
In statement, U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman said, "Fabricating evidence — submitting false and deceptive declarations to a federal judge — in an attempt to affect the outcome of pending litigation not only undermines the integrity of the judicial process, but it threatens the ability of our courts and our Government to ensure that justice is done. We take seriously our responsibility to protect the integrity of the judicial proceedings in this District, and we will not stand idly by while outside influences seek to corrupt and pervert that process."
Dirt is dirt. It is unlikely Veselnitskaya will return to the US again and face charges of Obstruction.
It seems the Russian Government’s interest at this point in time, would be for her to keep quiet. Before any more of their devious plot to interfere with America’s Election unravels before their eyes.
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For more background on Sergei Magnitsky, and the Magnitsky Act, named in his honor: