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Home Front: Politix
Huma's Cousin, Who Partnered With ‘Russian Donald Trump,' Convicted of Fraud, Tampered With Case By Deleting Emails
2017-12-30
Seems to run in the family. You won't see this on CNN/MSDNC/NYT...
[DailyCaller] A cousin of Huma Abedin who did a half-billion dollar deal with a man known as the "Russian Donald Trump" was convicted of fraud Tuesday, and the judge ordered him jailed immediately, saying he had demonstrated a "disdain for the courts and legal process" and was a flight risk.

Court documents also depict him trying to destroy potential evidence, saying he emailed his brother to "delete all of my emails from the yahoo site," expressing "concern about them subp[o]ening yahoo at some point," while concocting other fake documents to show the jury.

Jurors were barred from hearing a recording of a phone call in which Omar Amanat dropped the name of Abedin, Hillary Clinton's right-hand woman, to a government witness, with defense lawyers saying the remark was "irrelevant and unfairly prejudicial," according to the Associated Press.

The indictment charges that Amanat convinced people to invest millions of dollars in a tech company called Kit Digital and lied to them to hide the fact that the company was hemorrhaging cash. "The evidence of their criminal schemes was so overwhelming that Amanat actually tried to fool the jury by introducing fake emails into the record as exculpatory 'evidence'; in this trial," acting Manhattan U.S. Attorney Joon H. Kim said in a statement. Prosecutors said he re-purposed millions of dollars of the company';s money for his own personal use.

Amanat posted to his web site Tuesday a cryptic blog post called "Injustice In America," saying, "The facts of this case will all be made plain to see shortly. You've only seen snippets. You're only seen what they want you to see. Stay tuned..."

It was just the latest in a long series of allegations that Amanat has built his riches by lying and gaming the system.

In 2013, Amanat partnered with Vladislav Doronin to buy a luxury resort for $358 million.

An in-depth 2014 profile in Fortune magazine says Doronin is "referred to in the British press as the 'Russian Donald Trump.'" Dorinin was born in what was then Leningrad before moving to Geneva to work for Marc Rich, a financier who fled the U.S. after being indicted for fraud and trading with Iran, and was pardoned by former President Bill Clinton on Clinton's last day in office.

"Clinton's motive for pardoning Rich on his last day in office was questioned," USA Today reports, "because Rich's ex-wife, Denise Rich, was a wealthy Democratic donor who made a $450,000 donation to Clinton's presidential library foundation and more than $100,000 to Hillary Clinton's Senate campaign." The pardon was investigated by the FBI in 2001.

After working with Rich, Doronin, with a supposed penchant for sexual jokes, returned to Russia and accumulated billions of dollars of Moscow real estate.

Amanat, for his part, claimed he made more than $200 million selling shares of Twitter. (An account purporting to be his hasn't tweeted since 2013; its most recent two tweets are about Abedin and a "defense of Islam.")

Amanat will be sentenced April 25. Another cousin of Abedin's, Irfan Amanat, has been also charged with fraud and will be tried separately. He, too, has a long record of flouting rules: In 2006, the Securities and Exchange Commission said as chief technology officer of a brokerage, he "engaged in a fraudulent scheme" by writing a computer program that tricked the Nasdaq exchange into giving him $50,000 in rebates.
Posted by:Frank G

#1  The Russian Donald Trump huh?

Typical Democrats projecting their activities on others.
Posted by: AlanC   2017-12-30 16:08  

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