Trump-Russia Connections/Archive/2017/April 2017

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Donald J. Trump, Jr.

 * Executive VP of Development and Acquisitions, Trump Organization
 * "We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia"

Ekim Alptekin
helped coordinate Turkish lobbying in Washington with Zaikin

Dmitri "David"Zaikin
Soviet-born, former executive in Russian energy and mining companies who helped coordinate Turkish lobbying in Washington with Alptekin

Ezra Cohen-Watnick
senior director for intelligence at the NSC, one of Nunes' leakers

Michael Ellis
former counsel for House Intelligence Committee; Deputy National Security Council Legal Advisor reports to Eisenberg and White House counsel Donald McGahn, one of Nunes' leakers

John Eisenberg
top lawyer for the National Security Council, reports to White House counsel Donald McGahn, was informed of the Nunes docs

Michael Cohen
President's personal lawyer

Wilbur Ross

 * former chairman, Bank of Cyprus, current US Secretary of Commerce

Steve Mnuchin
Treasury Secretary

In-betweener
citizen or resident of the United States with a background in Russia or US citizen now living or working in Russia

Lee Stranahan
former Breitbart investigative reporter

Len Blavatnik
businessman, born in Ukraine, raised in Russia, naturalized U.S. citizen
 * president, Access Industries Holdings Inc. (parent company of Access Entertainment)
 * made his fortune after the fall of the Soviet Union
 * has investments in chemicals, real estate, technology and entertainment

Vnesheconombank
Russian government-owned development bank under sanctions by U.S. and others

SVR
Sluzhba vneshney razvedki (Russian Foreign Intelligence Service)

Sergey Gorkov
chairman, Vnesheconombank

Evgeny Buryakov
New York-based Deputy Representative, Vnesheconombank, arrested for spying on the United States for the SVR January 26, 20215

Sergey Kislyak
Russian ambassador to the 2016 U.S. Presidential election and Anything Else Putin Wants

Sergei Lavrov
Russian Foreign Minister

Maria Zakharova
Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman

Dmitry Petrov
Putin spokesman

Dmitry Peskov
Vladimir Putin's press secretary

RT
formerly Russia Today, Russian international television network funded by the Russian government

Sputnik
a news agency, consisting of websites, radio broadcast service (among others) established by the Russian government-controlled news agency Rossiya Segodnya

Dmitry Rybolovlev
The Fertilizer King

Konstantin Kilimnik
Manafort's protégé, Russian collaborator

Guccifer 2.0
distributed and publicized material stolen during hacks of the DNC, prominent Democratic operatives' emails

Viktor Yanukovych
disgraced Ukranian president-Russian puppet, leader of the "Party of Regions"

Vadim Trincher
model tenant, Trump Tower

Oleg Deripaska
Russian aluminum magnate, close Putin ally

Mikhail Kalugin
director, Russian Embassy's economics section

Victor Podobnyy
Russian intelligence operative
 * 1) {{drumpfft|4/4/2017|9539896|Carter Page becomes the latest Trump adjutant with links to Russian spies||
 * 2) {{drumpfft|4/4/2017|9540719|Preet Bharara was prosecuting Carter Page's Russian spy handler when Donald Trump fired him (Some possibly Not safe for work ads on page)||ussr}}{{trial}}

Pyotr Levashov
hacker

Victor Ozerov
chair Russian Federation Council's defense committee

Gazprom
government owned energy company

Semion Mogilevich
the "Brainy Don"
 * pioneered money laundering through high-end real estate in US

Vyacheslav Ivankov

 * Trump Tower tenant, Mogilevich lieutenant

David Bogatin

 * Trump Tower tenant, Mogilevich lieutenant

Aleksander Torshin

 * deputy governor of the Bank of Russia, close ally of Putin
 * Spanish police investigate his involvement in money laundering with Taganskaya, a Russian organized crime syndicate
 * alleged February, 2017 White House meeting with Trump canceled

Felix H. Sater

 * attempted to lift sanctions against Russia with Trump lawyer Michael Cohen
 * convicted of stock manipulation

Andrey Artemenko

 * attempted to lift sanctions against Russia with Trump lawyer Michael Cohen
 * also linked to Manafort through connections in Ukraine
 * jailed in Kiev on embezzlement charges

Russian Institute for Strategic Studies
Kremlin's in-house foreign policy think tank run by retired senior Russian foreign intelligence officials appointed by Putin?s office

Leonid Reshetnikov
former director, Russian Institute for Strategic Studies when 2016 POTUS election interference papers were written
 * at his retirement ceremony, Reshetnikov told Putin, "[t]he policy of Russia and the policy of the President of Russia have been the cornerstone of our operation.?

Mikhail Fradkov
director, Russian Institute for Strategic Studies

Alexander Dugin
the Steve Bannon of Russia

Sergei Magnitsky
whistleblowing tax attorney

Vadim Tyulpanov
former Federation Council representative, Nenets Autonomous Region
 * fell in gym, found dead

Nikolay Andruschenko
co-founder Novy Peterburg newspaper; known for investigative reporting on local crime, corruption, and police brutality

RatPac-Dune
entertainment group whose investors include: Steve Mnuchin and Len Blavatnik

Beny Steinmetz
co-founder, Hermitage Capital, a Russian hedge fund firm
 * currently under investigation in the US, Guinea, Israel and Switzerland for different briberies
 * provided funding to Kushner Companies for downpayments on $190 million in purchases in NYC in 2012

Kushner Companies
Kushner family real estate firm; received funding from Steinmetz for downpayments on $190 million in purchases in NYC in 2012

Russian Hackers
Yahoo hackers March 15, 2017 announcement that a grand jury indicted the defendants for computer hacking, economic espionage and other criminal offenses in connection with a conspiracy to access Yahoo's network and accounts
 * Dmitry Aleksandrovich Dokuchaev, 33, Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) officer, Russian national and resident
 * Igor Anatolyevich Sushchin, 43, Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) officer, Russian national and resident
 * Alexsey Alexseyevich Belan, aka "Magg," 29, a Russian national and resident
 * Karim Baratov, aka "Kay," "Karim Taloverov"
 * "Karim Akehmet Tokbergenov," 22, a Canadian national and a resident of Canada

Roman Valeryevich Seleznev
Russian citizen from Vladivostok, son of Russian parliament member Valery Seleznev
 * a prominent carder (traded stolen payment card data) under online aliases "Track2", "2pac" and "nCuX"
 * found guilty in August, 2016
 * 10 counts of wire fraud
 * 8 counts of intentional damage to a protected computer
 * 9 counts of obtaining information from a protected computer
 * 9 counts of possession of 15 or more unauthorized access devices
 * 2 counts of aggravated identity theft
 * sentenced in the Western District of Washington to 27 years in prison

Dmitry Kiselyov
anchor of Rossiya 1 channel's "Vesti Nedeli"
 * on Donald Trump and Kim Jong-Un:
 * "[b]oth are dangerous, but who is more dangerous? Trump is."
 * "both have [l]imited international experience, unpredictability, and a readiness to go to war."

Izvestia
pro-Kremlin newspaper

Leonid Bershidsky
Bloomberg View columnist; founding editor, Vedomosti, the Russian business daily; founded opinion website Slon.ru

Senate Intelligence Committee
as of April 24, 2017 chairman Senator Richard Burr, (R NC) has failed to respond to Democrats' letters requesting that the committee:
 * ignored subpoenas for documents
 * such as emails, memos and phone records of the Trump campaign
 * has yet to interview any key witnesses central to the probe

Staffers

 * not one dedicated full-time staffer
 * no staffers have significant investigative experience

Senate Judiciary Committee
subcommittee on crime and terrorism

Preet Bharara
former US Attorney

GAO
General Accountability Office

Several US Allies
including Australia, the Netherlands, Estonia, Germany, Poland, the UK (Government Communications Headquarters or GCHQ) and France (General Directorate for External Security or DGSE) all passed electronic intelligence (sigint) to the US as part of a routine exchange of information

Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
tracks global money laundering

Department of Justice National Security Division (NSD)
responsible for counterintelligence and counterterrorism investigations
 * probe into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election
 * Yahoo hackers

Shepard Smith
poor, poor Shepard Smith

Michelle Goldberg
columnist, Slate