Criminal Spider Web:
Dastardly, Deceitful, Deceptive,
Disgraceful, and
Dreadful
Major
Update on the story that follows with this headline from
here:
Trump administration lifts Russian sanctions despite
unpopular rebuke
The Trump administration on Sunday lifted sanctions on three Russian
firms controlled by Oleg Deripaska (*Dee-ri-paska),
an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The sanctions on the aluminum company Rusal, its parent company EN+,
and power firm JSC (Euro Sib Energowere)
were announced in April 2018.
They were brought against the three companies in response to Russia’s
“malign activity around the globe.”
Deripaska was targeted as an individual because the U.S. claims he has
threatened the lives of business rivals, bribed government officials, and has
links to organized crime. Deripaska denies the allegations.
Senate
DEM Efforts to Keep Russian Sanctions in Place: They have raised serious questions about the appropriateness
of lifting these sanctions in light of S/C Robert Mueller’s ongoing
investigation into the Trump campaign’s links to Russia and 2016 election interference.
Deripaska
is client of Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort and Christopher
Bancroft Burnham (who served on Trump’s State Department transition team) and
who as part of this deal to lift the sanctions, has now been appointed to the
board of Deripaska’s EN+ Corporation. (Quid pro quo,um?)
When
the sanctions went into effect (April 2018), Deripaska’s businesses plummeted
on stock markets around the globe and cost Deripaska him $3.8 billion in three
weeks. But the sanctions were challenged by a campaign financed by the three
firms, which argued that the sanctions would have negative knock-on effects on
the global aluminum market and on companies in the U.S. and allied countries.
The
deal to lift the sanctions on the three companies entailed a restructuring at
each to reduce Deripaska’s control, but he and his allies will reportedly
maintain a controlling share of EN+.
Oddly related: The
ambassadors for Austria, Britain, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, and
Sweden sent a letter to Schumer urging him not to
challenge the Treasury Department’s decision.
They wrote in part: “…by preventing
serious damage to the European aluminum industry, the delisting will help to
preserve existing supply chains which would otherwise likely be rerouted to
China, further strengthening its global market position in the industry.”
A majority of House Republicans voted
with Democrats to keep sanctions on the three companies, however, the vote was
mainly symbolic, as the measure had already failed in the Senate, to wit:
Eleven Republican senators voted with all the Democrats to advance the
measure, and it cleared the required 51-vote threshold thus setting up the
final vote to keep the sanctions in place. That required 60 votes but fell
three votes short.
NOTE: The same 11 Republicans supported the measure again to
keep the sanctions in place.
Those wise and loyal and courageous 11 Republican
senators who voted with all the Senate Democrats were: John Boozman and Tom Cotton (both from AR); Susan
Collins (ME); Steve Daines (MT); Cory Gardner (CO); Josh Hawley (MO); John
Kennedy (LA); Martha McSally (AZ); Jerry Moran (KS); Marco Rubio (FL); and Ben
Sasse (NE).
History
of Russian hacking in the 2016 election and their direct interference to harm Hillary Clinton and help Donald J.
Trump win as it relates to this story – proving how everything is tied in neat
package with ribbon for Putin thanks to Trump in the above story update:
The key Russian billionaire tied to Paul Manafort and
thus to Trump before, during, and now after the 2016 cycle is Oleg Deripaska aluminum and other giant industrial connections.
Deripaska controls “Basic
Element (EN+)” which in turn owns more than 100 Russian and international
companies. He laid the foundation of his empire in the “aluminum wars” of the
1990s, a vicious struggle for control of natural resources in which he emerged
triumphant, becoming the undisputed king
of aluminum production in Russia.
Deripaska employed Paul
Manafort, the political consultant who later became Trump’s 2016 campaign
manager. Manafort has since offered to testify in an investigation into
Russia’s role in the election. Deripaska and Manafort have since feuded,
tangling over money that each accuses the other of owing money.
Deripaska
was at the center of a recent video investigation, put together by Aleksei Navalny, an anti-corruption
campaigner and a vociferous opponent of Putin. The investigation found that
Deripaska organized an outing on his luxury yacht, attended by Sergei
Prikhodko, deputy prime minister of Russia and a Kremlin foreign policy
adviser, and female escorts.
(Noteworthy story also connected to
Deripaska and a Belarusian escort named Anastasia
Vashukevich. Her story is here from
the NY Times).
More information sources on this highly-complex and deeply intertwined legal
abyss under Mueller scrutiny:
Introduction: The Trump administration announced new sanctions against
a list of seven Russian business tycoons, government officials, and
corporations as part of the continuing political and economic fallout from the
nerve agent attack on a former Russian spy and his daughter in England last
month.
The Russian billionaire’s roster includes some of the most powerful people and entities in Russia, with
ties to Putin and his government, and many of them are suspected of corruption
sanctioned by the Kremlin.
Britain
says Moscow was likely behind the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia and they have persuaded allies
on both sides of the Atlantic. Russia denies any connection to the attack.
Some
of the biggest names on the new sanctions list, and where their money came from
is in the story.
Also
this is related to this spider web crime story: The
quiet Americans behind the US-Russia imbroglio.
My 2 cents: How and when will this greatest crime story of the century and our
national nightmare end? Or, even perhaps it’s the most-intertwined crime story ever.
Who really knows at this point?
Based all we have seen, heard, read, believe,
and trust it is truly a genius election scheme based on one thing. That is the famous
line in the movie “All the President’s Men” (Watergate and downfall of Richard
Nixon) – that is: “Follow the Money.”
That really is the bottom line – and what
else would we expect from our self-labeled genius businessman President, right?
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