Trump-Russia Connections

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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"

Trump's Transition Team

 * copied and removed highly sensitive documents from SCIF at Trump transition's Washington HQ

Morgan, Lewis, Bockius, LLP
Sheri A. Dillon and William F. Nelson, tax partners

Roger Stone
''Top. Advisor.''

Rex Tillerson
Secretary of State, former Exxon-Mobile executive

Brian Brown
president, National Organization for Marriage; believes Russians and US conservatives are "uniting together under the values we share"
 * 1) testified before the Duma in 2013 as Russia adopted a series of anti-gay laws

Sheriff David Clarke
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Michael Cohen
President's personal lawyer

Ezra Cohen-Watnick
senior director for intelligence at the NSC, 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 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

Michael Flynn

 * was in frequent contact with Sergey Kislyak throughout transition period
 * suspected of establishing a one-to-one line of communication (back channel) with Putin
 * dismissive of the threat Russia posed to the US
 * didn't seem to fully understand Kislyak's rumored ties to Russian intelligence agencies

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

Alan Gottlieb
founder of the Second Amendment Foundation
 * 1) Torshin and Butina took him and his wife out for dinner and gave them gifts

Franklin Graham
North Carolina-based evangelist
 * 1) believed Putin to be a potential friend after Putin offered to hold an upcoming conference on the persecution of Christians in Moscow; instead, a Russian delegation will attend the conference in Washington in May, 2017

Corey Lewandowski
fotmer Ttump campaihn msnsger, former lobbyist

Avenue Strategies
lobbying firm founded by two former Trump aides: Corey Lewandowski and Barry Bennett

Washington East West Political Strategies
short-lived off-shoot of Avenue Strategies created for prospective Eastern European clients; partners included an Azerbaijani oil executive and an American political consultant who works extensively in Russia

Strategic Campaign Group
campaign consulting firm, Annapolis, Maryland
 * pioneered the use of technology in political campaigns
 * represents GOP candidates nationwide, including the Tea Party and the Conservative Majority Fund
 * FBI raided Main St. offices May 11, 2017 with a search warrant
 * questioned by the FEC concerning money raised by a political action committee

Steve Mnuchin
US Treasury Secretary

National Prayer Breakfast
hosted delegation of prominent Russians for 2017 Breakfast

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R CA 33rd)
"Russia is no longer the Soviet Union"

Wilbur Ross
former chairman, Bank of Cyprus, current US Secretary of Commerce

CFIUS
Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States
 * approves acquisitions of US assets by foreign companies
 * chair is Treasury Secretary

Governor Scott Walker (R WI)

 * 1) met Torshin and Butina at 2015 NRA Convention

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

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

Louis Marinelli
Leader of the "Cal-exit" movement

Lee Stranahan
former Breitbart investigative reporter

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

David Bogatin

 * Trump Tower tenant, Mogilevich lieutenant

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

Maria Butina
former aide to Alexander Torshin, founded a group called the Right to Bear Arms
 * 1) she and Torshin invited then NRA president, David Keene, to RtBA 2013 meeting in Moscow

Oleg Deripaska
Russian aluminum magnate, close Putin ally

Alexander Dugin
the Steve Bannon of Russia

Mikhail Fradkov
director, Russian Institute for Strategic Studies

Gazprom
government owned energy company

Sergey Gorkov
chairman, Vnesheconombank

Vyacheslav Ivankov

 * Trump Tower tenant, Mogilevich lieutenant

Mikhail Kalugin
director, Russian Embassy's economics section

Konstantin Kilimnik
Manafort's protégé, Russian collaborator

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


 * was in frequent contact with Michael Flynn throughout transition period

Sergei Lavrov
Russian Foreign Minister

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

National Morning Prayer Foundation
founded by Peter Sautov and Alexander Torshin; Russia's version of National Prayer Breakfast that, with US Christians, hopes to "rebuild the relationship between the two countries that has degraded under the administration of President Obama"
 * 1) Putin sends an annual greeting

Victor Ozerov
chair Russian Federation Council's defense committee

Dmitry Peskov
Vladimir Putin's press secretary

Dmitry Petrov
Putin spokesman

Victor Podobnyy
Russian intelligence operative

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.?

Dmitry Rogozin
Deputy Prime Minister of Russia
 * 1) among the officials sanctioned by Obama's White House following Russia's invasion of Ukraine

Rosneft

 * 1) will receive 49.9 percent of Citgo's shares if PDVSA defaults on the December, 2016 loan

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

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

Dmitry Rybolovlev
The Fertilizer King

Felix H. Sater

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

Peter Sautov
organizer and chairman, National Morning Prayer Foundation (Russia's version of National Prayer Breakfast)

Igor Sechin
owner, Roseneft

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

SVR
Sluzhba vneshney razvedki (Russian Foreign Intelligence Service)

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
 * 1) leader in Russian movement to align Kremlin more closely with the Orthodox church, attended the 2017 National Prayer Breakfast with a delegation of prominent Russians

Vadim Trincher
model tenant, Trump Tower

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

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

Maria Zakharova
Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman

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

Morgan, Lewis, Bockius, LLP
Sheri A. Dillon and William F. Nelson, tax partners

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

G. Kline Preston IV
lawyer from Nashville, has done business in Russia for many years
 * 1) introduced David Keene, then the NRA's president, to Alexander Torshin in 2011

PDVSA
Petróleos de Venezuela, Venezuela?s national oil company; took out a loan from Rosneft in December, offering as collateral 49.9 percent of Citgo?s shares

CITGO Petroleum
subsidiary of PDVSA, Venezuela?s national oil company; operates three large refineries, three major pipelines and dozens of fuel terminals in the US; 49.9% of its shares were offered as collateral on a loan from Roseneft

Obama White House

 * restricted documents Trump's team viewed at the White House
 * worried Trump's team would tip off Moscow, delayed telling them:
 * about plans to punish Russia for its election meddling
 * about plans to levy sanctions and oust Russians living in the in the US

Arrested, Tried, Convicted
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

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

Pyotr Levashov
hacker

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

Izvestia
pro-Kremlin newspaper

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."

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

Senate Intelligence Hearing
closed hearing, May 11, 2017

Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism

 * Russian Interference in the 2016 United States Election
 * Monday, May 8, 2017
 * Witnesses
 * Sally Yates former Acting Attorney General
 * James Clapper former Director of National Intelligence
 * James Clapper former Director of National Intelligence

Various Congressional lobbying oversight offices

 * 1) was asked by Public Citizen to investigate Lewandowski's lobbying status

Six Senators
wrote letter to Treasury Secretary Mnuchin asking him, as chair of CFIUS, for a "thorough, conflict-free and expedient review" in the event that PDVSA defaults and Roseneft gains control of CITGO
 * Senators Bob Menendez (D NJ), John Cornyn (R TX), Ted Cruz (R TX), Marco Rubio (R FL), Bill Cassidy (R LA) and Dick Durbin (D IL)''

Christopher Steele
former MI6 agent

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

Preet Bharara
former US Attorney

Marshall Billingslea
member of Donald Trump's transition team under Flynn; former Pentagon and NATO official
 * would have been nominated for assistant secretary for terrorist financing at the Treasury Department
 * requested only one leadership profile from Obama White House: Kislyak's
 * for his boss, Flynn, who didn't seem to fully understand Kislyak's rumored ties to Russian intelligence agencies

FBI-led Investigation

 * since about June, 2016
 * had been investigating Trump associates' possible ties to Russia, particularly focused on Flynn

former FBI Director Comey

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Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
tracks global money laundering

Department of Justice

 * 1) was asked by Public Citizen to investigate Lewandowski's lobbying status

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

CIA

 * compiles classified "leadership profile" of foreign officials, which include:
 * biographical information
 * US intelligence assessments

GAO
General Accountability Office

Public Citizen
government-ethics watchdog group wrote letter to DoJ and Congressional lobbying oversight offices requesting investigations into Lewandowski's lobbying status

Malcolm Nance
Counterterrorism expert

Michelle Goldberg
columnist, Slate

Shepard Smith
poor, poor Shepard Smith

Rosalind S. Helderman
political enterprise and investigations reporter, Washington Post

Tom Hamburger
covers the intersection of money and politics, Washington Post

Kenneth P. Vogel
tracks confluence of money, politics and influence, Politico.com