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Today, the NYT reported:
This part is also interesting:
VEB has just confirmed that executives were in communication with Kushner during the election.
Executives of Russian state development bank Vnesheconombank (VEB) held talks with Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of U.S. President Donald Trump, during a bank roadshow in 2016 when it was preparing a new strategy, the bank said on Monday.
So Kushner's relationship to VEB is not limited to the reported meeting during the transition. Per Reuters and the bank itself, he communicated with VEB officials in 2016 as well. One has to wonder what Kushner and a bank under US sanctions would have to discuss while his father-in-law is running for President?
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Today, the NYT reported:
At Mr. Kislyak’s request, Mr. Kushner later met with Sergey N. Gorkov, the chief of Vnesheconombank, which drew sanctions from the Obama administration after President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia annexed Crimea and began meddling in Ukraine.
Hey guys, remember that time in 2015 that Vnesheconombank ran a spy ring out of their office in NYC that sought to find compromising information on the US financial system? That ring Preet Bharara broke up? You know, that one US Attorney that was suddenly fired after being told he would not be fired. Full DOJ press release.
Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said: “Evgeny Buryakov, in the guise of being a legitimate banker, gathered intelligence as an agent of the Russian Federation in New York. He traded coded messages with one of his Russian spy co-defendants, who sent the clandestinely collected information back to Moscow. So long as this type of Cold War-style spy intrigue continues to go on in present-day New York City, the FBI and the prosecutors in my office will continue to investigate and prosecute it.”
Assistant Attorney General John P. Carlin said: “Evgeny Buryakov is being held accountable for his efforts to secretly operate as a Russian foreign intelligence officer in the United States. Foreign intelligence officers attempting to illegally collect information pose a direct threat to our national security. Working with our law enforcement and intelligence partners at tracking down and disrupting these clandestine operations against our country will continue to remain one of the National Security Division's highest priorities.”
The VEB HQ in NYC was a Russian SVR residentura as recently as this case two years ago. They were cultivating assets in the financial industry, andnow Kushner is meeting with them. I think there is also the possibility that ties between Kushner and VEB could explain some of the ambiguities regarding the FISA warrants that purportedly picked up Trump team communications. Remember Guardian and HeatSt and others suggested the FISA warrants were related financial crimes and Russian banks. Sure, the warrant sought in October was related Alfa and Sber - not VEB, but we also know from Comey's testimony and other NYT reporting that there were intercepted communications that seem to predate the October warrant and the calls duringthe transition. VEB was the hub of a spyring in NYC, if people on team Trump were talking to VEB personnel implicated in the spy ring duringthe campaign, they may have ended up on a recorded FISA call.Assistant Attorney General John P. Carlin said: “Evgeny Buryakov is being held accountable for his efforts to secretly operate as a Russian foreign intelligence officer in the United States. Foreign intelligence officers attempting to illegally collect information pose a direct threat to our national security. Working with our law enforcement and intelligence partners at tracking down and disrupting these clandestine operations against our country will continue to remain one of the National Security Division's highest priorities.”
This part is also interesting:
The FBI obtained the recordings after Sporyshev attempted to recruit an FBI undercover employee (“UCE-1”), who was posing as an analyst from a New York-based energy company.
So this spy ring was trying to recruit people that could be considered peers of Carter Page? I wonder if they tried to recruit Carter Page?
VEB has just confirmed that executives were in communication with Kushner during the election.
Executives of Russian state development bank Vnesheconombank (VEB) held talks with Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of U.S. President Donald Trump, during a bank roadshow in 2016 when it was preparing a new strategy, the bank said on Monday.
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