Quite interesting, Glenn Simpson worked for a Russian oligarch to defeat the Magnitsky Act. In his testimony Simpson literally destroys Bill Browder!!! See also my earlier diaries ….
Source inside Trump campaign reported concerns to FBI, new transcript reveals | The Guardian |
A source within the Trump campaign reported concerns to the FBI, according to the man behind a controversial dossier on Donald Trump, a new transcript reveals.
Senator Dianne Feinstein on Tuesday unilaterally released the transcript of a congressional interview with Glenn Simpson, whose research firm, Fusion GPS, was behind the dossier on alleged contacts between Donald Trump’s campaign and the Russian government.
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Simpson cautioned that he was paraphrasing Steele’s account, and added: “we did not have the detailed conversations where he would debrief me on his discussions with the FBI.”…
According to Simpson, Steele “severed his relationship with the FBI” after the New York Times published a story in late October that said agents had not found “any conclusive or direct link between Mr Trump and the Russian government”.Steele was concerned “that the FBI was being manipulated for political ends by the Trump people and that we didn’t really understand what was going on”, Simpson said. “So he stopped dealing with them.”
Feinstein, the ranking Democrat on the Senate judiciary committee, said she released the transcript because “the American people deserve the opportunity to see what he said and judge for themselves”.
This is the transcribed interview of Glenn Simpson. Chairman Grassley and Ranking Member Feinstein requested this interview as part of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s investigation of Fusion GPS‘s activities related to the dossier compiled by Christopher Steele, the Prevezon case, and the Magnitsky Act.
Additional key words: William Browder – Panama Papers – Mossack Fonseca – Edward Baumgartner – Edward Austin in London
More and updates below the fold …
Steele went to the FBI bc he was concerned Trump was being blackmailed, according to Simpson transcript https://t.co/QBWlkD0wYN pic.twitter.com/FpOSrhwROn
— Garance Franke-Ruta (@thegarance) January 9, 2018
From my earlier diaries …
○ Globalisation: Katsyv links Moscow – London – NY – Tel Aviv
○ Did MI6/CIA Collude with Chris Steele to Entrap Trump?
○ Exclusive: Why Akhmetshin and Fusion GPS Should Be Investigated
○ Khodorkovsky, Browder and the Magnitsky Act
○ Prosecutors Seeking to Enforce $5.9M Judgment Against Provezon | NY Law Journal – Nov. 9, 2017 |
Prevezon, which had been accused of taking $1.9 million from the treasury scheme, argues that it is not able to pay the settlement because the assets it intends to use to pay up are being held by the Dutch government.
“Our bills have not been paid because our assets have been frozen,” said Faith Gay, a partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and a member of Prevezon’s U.S.-based defense team, at a conference on Thursday evening before U.S. District Judge William Pauley III of the Southern District of New York.
Advantageous for both parties involved in the litigation … secrecy after the judgment.
○ Disqualification John Moscow of Baker & Hostetler LLP in Provezon litigation
On October 17, 2016, the Second Circuit issued a writ of mandamus requiring the disqualification of John Moscow and Baker & Hostetler LLP (collectively “BakerHostetler”) as counsel for Defendants. The Second Circuit issued the extraordinary relief because BakerHostetler represented Hermitage Capital Management Ltd. (“Hermitage”) to defend it against false allegations that Hermitage had committed a massive Russian Treasury Fraud but then switched sides and, in the service of its new client Prevezon, falsely accused Hermitage of committing that very same fraud.
○ U.S. Alleges Further Laundering in Magnitsky-Linked Case | WSJ – Nov. 5, 2014 | [paywall]
Lawyers for Mr. Katzyv and Prevezon said that tens of millions of dollars in real estate properties covered by the original forfeiture order were freed, including hotels and land in Russia and Cyprus.
“The Prevezon companies can now begin to repair some of the extensive damage inflicted on their international real estate investment organization by this outrageous U.S. government attempt to take their entire business away through the civil asset forfeiture system, without presenting the required evidence of wrongdoing,” said Mark Cymrot, partner at BakerHostetler LLP, who represents Mr. Katsyv and Prevezon.
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Separately, Judge Griesa also ruled that London-based hedge-fund manager William Browder has to provide reasons why he shouldn’t be forced to face a deposition from defense counsel, who subpoenaed him after prosecutors identified Mr. Browder as a potential witness in the case. Mr. Browder’s fund was the victim of the tax fraud; he has lobbied U.S. prosecutors to bring cases related to it, including the one against Mr. Katsyv.
The transcript of the Glenn Simpson hearing is the real news here, all the court cases have been covered before including the link of Prevezon to the Netherlands.
Rome [FIFA] seems to be a favorite meeting place for spooks and FBI agents …
According to court documents, Pyotr Katsyv, currently Vice President of Russian Railways, and former Vice Premier of the Moscow Regional Government, offered the US Government to meet to provide information on “criminal activity in Russia.” This offer was preceded by a meeting between his son, Denis Katsyv, and FBI Special Agent in Rome, Italy.
○ Prevezon Globalisation: Katsyv links Moscow – London – NY – Tel Aviv
On his website, Chuck Johnson destroys his former colleagues/boss of the alt-right, interesting when one eats its own …
○ Why I Disavow My Old Boss @BretStephensNYT
My own reasons for distancing myself from Bret Stephens, a full fledged neocon …
○ Bret Stephens, WSJ/Murdoch Are Inseparable
Charles C. Johnson was covered by me in his participation with Peter Smith to find the “missing Clinton e-mails” on the dark web with help from released hacker Weev who now lives in the Ukraine.
○ Peter Smith Tapped Alt-Right to Access Dark Net
My diary on the June meeting in Trump Tower …
○ Exclusive: Why Akhmetshin and Fusion GPS Should Be Investigated
Steve Bannon, former top White House strategist, has retained Bill Burck, of the firm Quinn Emanuel.
Yes indeed, the same Quinn Emanuel who represented Kytsov in the money laundering of Prevezon. Quite suddenly the litigation was settled with New York prosecutors in May 2017.