[Hot Air] Fox News’ Catherine Herridge reports that two strains of the Russia story collided or, at least, crossed paths on the day Russian attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya met with Donald Trump Jr. at Trump Tower:The co-founder of Fusion GPS, the firm behind the unverified Trump dossier, met with a Russian lawyer before and after a key meeting she had last year with Trump’s son, Fox News has learned. The contacts shed new light on how closely tied the firm was to Russian interests, at a time when it was financing research to discredit then-candidate Donald Trump...
Hours before the Trump Tower meeting on June 9, 2016, Fusion co-founder and ex-Wall Street Journal reporter Glenn Simpson was with Veselnitskaya in a Manhattan federal courtroom, a confidential source told Fox News. Court records reviewed by Fox News, email correspondence and published reports corroborate the pair’s presence together. The source told Fox News they also were together after the Trump Tower meeting...
NBC News first reported that Veselnitskaya and Simpson were both at a hearing centered around another Fusion client, Russian oligarch Denis Katsyv. His company, Prevezon Holdings, was sanctioned against doing business in the U.S. for its alleged role in laundering more than $230 million.
The story of Russian influence on the election now has so many moving parts that it’s getting hard to keep them all straight. But it all connects back to lawyer Sergei Magnitsky who died in a Russian prison in 2009. According to his employer, businessman Bill Browder, Magnitsky was arrested after he uncovered millions of dollars in fraud involving Russian companies.
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