Another Clinton-Russian Connection Exposed: See Any Reason For a Special Counsel Now, Mr. Sessions?

When the House Intelligence Committee was attempting to get to the bottom of the story on the Trump-Russian Dossier and who financed it, they ran into a major roadblock when they tried to subpoena Fusion GPS’ bank records.  These would definitively tell who was funneling money to whom and at what points in the parameters of the investigation’s reach determined the influence that was being peddled.

What resulted was an unexpected and quick admission on the part of the Perkins Coie law firm (who represented Hillary Clinton’s campaign) that Fusion GPS would not be required to turn over their records because they were readily admitting to the payments.

That was a very blatant move on the parts of the lawyers of the Clinton campaign to block information vital to the investigation from becoming public and even after Fusion GPS sued to halt the subpoena, the House committee pushed to have the records released.

Part of those records has now been revealed (although redacted) and show that a Russian businessman Denis Katsyv, who is a convicted criminal with ties to Natalia Veselnitskaya, paid Fusion GPS more than a half-million dollars to investigate Bill Browder.  Browder, the London banker, lobbied the US Congress to pass the Magnitsky Act, something the Russian government heavily attempted to slander as a political ploy for sanctioning Russia.

Unsealed court documents reveal that the firm behind the salacious 34-page Trump-Russia Dossier, Fusion GPS, was paid $523,000 by a Russian businessman convicted of tax fraud and money laundering, whose lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, was a key figure in the infamous June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower arranged by Fusion GPS associate Rob Goldstone.

In short, D.C. opposition research firm Fusion GPS is the common denominator linked to two schemes used to damage the Trump campaign.

[L]aw firm Baker Hostelter paid Fusion $523,651 between March and October 2016 on behalf of a company owned by Russian businessman and money launderer Denis Katsyv to research Bill Browder, a London banker who helped push through the Magnitsky Act – named after deceased Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who Browder hired to investigate Russian corruption.

Veselnitskaya, through Baker Hostetler, hired Glenn Simpson of the firm Fusion GPS to conduct a smear campaign against me and Sergei Magnitsky in advance of congressional hearings on the Global Magnitsky Act. -Bill Browder, Testimony to Senate Judiciary Committee, 7/26/17

Attorney General Jeff Sessions claims that there’s “nothing there” when it comes to the smoke, the gun, and the fingerprints on the grip.  Yet, as can be seen from the many tentacles that have appeared and seem to all travel back to the torso of the octopus named Clinton-Russian Collusion, it is possible that he may be missing some valid and vital piece of evidence.

So, in an effort to help him see what he might be missing, ZeroHedge has put together a nice, tidy little list of the many ways in which the Left has apparently expressed its gratitude and adoration for all things Russian.

Let’s Review:

Russian businessman Denis Katsyv was a key figure in an embezzlement and money laundering scheme involving New York real estate, uncovered by Russian lawyer and accountant Sergei Magnitsky. Magnitsky died in Moscow’s Butyrka prison after a year of inhumane treatment. 

The embezzlement scheme uncovered by Magnitsky along with the circumstances behind his death resulted in the Magnitsky Act – a bipartisan bill signed in December 2012 by President Obama which imposed sanctions on Russia.

Katsyv settled with the U.S. Justice department in 2017, paying a paltry $5.9 million in 2017 to settle the case – less than 3% of the amount originally sought by federal prosecutors. 

Katsyv’s attorney, Natalia Veselnitskaya, lobbied to remove the sanctions imposed by the Magnitsky Act. 

Fusion GPS was paid $523,651 by Katsyv to investigate London Banker Bill Browder who pushed for the Magnitsky Act

Fusion GPS associate Rob Goldstone set up the infamous meeting at Trump Tower between Donald Trump Jr., Katsyv’s lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya and various associates. The meeting was pitched to Trump Jr. as a “discussion on adoption” (not opposition research on Hillary Clinton) and was shut down by Trump after it became clear Veselnitskaya wanted to discuss the Magnitsky Act, which Don Jr. apparently didn’t realize was linked to the adoption issue. Others present at the meeting include Jared Kushner, Paul Manafort, and Goldstone.

Hours before the Trump Tower meeting, Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson met with Veselnitskaya.

This is about the Swamp and the Hillary Clintons of the world who skate (and fully expect to skate) on every single charge against them, no matter how serious or compacted with damning evidence and testimony.

This is about the sketchy activities of a Deep State so infused with arsenic that when they scatter for the cloakroom for their daggers and lists of their nocturnal meeting places, they never look over their shoulder because they know that the Swamp has their back.

Meanwhile…

Fusion GPS was paid $1,024,408 by a DNC law firm, funded in part by Hillary Clinton and the DNC, to create the salacious 34 page dossier.

Fusion paid former British spy Christopher Steele $168,000 to assemble the document (which had the cooperation of two senior Kremlin officials).

Clinton campaign manager John Podesta met with Fusion CEO Glenn Simpson the day after the 34 page dossier was made public.

For their efforts, Fusion GPS was paid over $1.5 million dollars between Hillary Clinton, the DNC, and the holding company owned by pro-Kremlin businessman Denis Katsyv.
Russian Ties Galore!

If Manafort and Gates are going to be treated like the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and the Podesta Group survives unscathed, nothing has changed.  The Swamp retains its thick, slimy, tangled roots and the Muellers, Rosensteins and the McCabes exonerate themselves as they masquerade as Elliot Ness and the Untouchables.

If we’re to hold Manafort and Gates accountable, then EVERYONE needs to be held accountable…” down to the last, slime-covered toadstool.”

Looking at other Russian affiliations on the left – since that’s the entire impetus of the witch hunt against President Trump:

Russia gained control over 20% of United States uranium after the Clinton Foundation received $145 million from Uranium One affiliates and Russian oligarchs connected to the deal.

The Obama administration approved the transaction after the FBI knew of a Russian plot to corner the US Uranium market and a racketeering scheme involving a Kentucky trucking company. Over 5,000 documents and a video of Russians preparing a briefcase stuffed with bribe money for Obama administration officials were obtained by an FBI informant.

Bill Clinton met with Vladimir Putin at his house in Russia, the same day he collected $500,000 for a speech to a Russian bank which upgraded Uranium One stock. Clinton sought approval from Hillary Clinton’s State Department to meet with 15 Russians.

Tony Podesta, brother of John Podesta, lobbied for Uranium One after Russia state-owned energy giant Rosatom owned the company outright.

Tony Podesta met regularly with Clinton Foundation and was considered “basically part” of the organization, according to a former long-time executive of the Podesta Group, who also said Podesta was “peddling Russian oligarchs” all over D.C.  

Clinton campaign chief and longtime DNC operative John Podesta recommended that brother Tony hire Hillary Clinton’s chief legislative advisor at the State Department, David Adams, which allowed a direct link between the firm’s Russian clients and the Obama administration. 

John Podesta sat on the board and owned shares in Joule Unlimited – a green-energy company which received $35 million from the Russian government while Hillary Clinton served as Secretary of State. In addition to Podesta, Joule’s board of directors included senior Russian official Anatoly Chubais and oligarch Reuben Vardanyan – a Putin appointee to the Russian economic modernization council. Podesta jettisoned his shares before the 2016 election, transferring them to his daughter via a shell corporation. 

I really hate to be a Doubting Thomas, but it is increasingly obvious as every day goes by that Jeff Sessions is simply not up to the task of the felony-level criminal activity by either higher-echelon staffers, department heads, secretaries of state, or Deep State agents falling under the umbrella of the Department of Justice.

The attorney general is a brilliant strategist when it comes to flushing out the illegals, however.  So, I guess the question then becomes:  Do we believe that it’s more important to have leadership in the DOJ that is dead-set on enforcement of our federal immigration laws or the draining of the Swamp?

That’s an easy one…we want both.

Now, get off the fence, Mr. Sessions, and start doing what’s right instead of what’s politically expedient.

Source:  ZeroHedge