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Если в Госдепе борьбой с российской организованной преступностью занимался знакомый Критсоферу Стилу Джонатан Винер, то в Министерстве юстиции этим занимался другой знакомый Стила, Брюс Ор, объект нынешних нападок со стороны Трампа и его «цепных псов» в Конгрессе.

Последние получили некоторый отпор со стороны демократов.

- Bruce Ohr has spent almost 30 years at the Department of Justice. He has proven himself to be a tireless fighter against organized crime at home and abroad. He has developed particular expertise in bringing cases against Russian oligarchs and other figures involved in Russian organized crime.
- Contrary to the allegations of several Republican members, Mr. Ohr’s testimony does not: (1) cast doubt on the credibility of the dossier; (2) cast doubt on the validity of any representation made to the FISA court; (3) suggest that Bruce or Nellie Ohr had any direct role in the Russia investigation; (4) suggest that he had anything other than a passing professional relationship with Peter Strzok or Lisa Page; or (5) suggest that Mr. Ohr was part of an imaginary cabal at the Department of Justice aimed at defeating President Trump.
https://democrats-oversight.house.gov/news/press-releases/ranking-members-nadler-and-cummings-respond-to-republican-attacks-following



В письме демократов к руководителям комиссий Конгресса говорится, в частности, что выражение «наш любимый олигарх» в переписке Стила и Ора относилось не к Трампу, а к Дерипаске.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4806592-2018-08-31-EEC-Nadler-to-Gowdy-OGR-Goodlatte.html

The communications between Ohr and Steele were marked “law enforcement sensitive” because they related “to a confidential human source,” the Democratic lawmakers said.
In questioning Ohr, lawmakers Elijah Cummings and Jerrold Nadler said, Republicans were selective about his communications with Steele to create “a highly misleading narrative with factually inaccurate interpretations and conjecture” that they were discussing Trump.
As an example, they said, Republicans read a portion of an email in which Steele wrote that he wanted to speak with Ohr about “our favorite business tycoon.”
Republicans assumed they were discussing Trump, but Ohr answered that the “business tycoon” was Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, the two Democrats said.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-ohr/republicans-cherry-picked-russia-probe-documents-to-quiz-us-official-democrats-idUSKCN1LG2NP

Вскоре стало известно, что Ор и Стил принимали участие в неудачной попытке склонить Дерипаску к сотрудничеству с ФБР во время его визитов в США в 2014-2016.

Two of the players in the effort were Bruce G. Ohr, the Justice Department official who has recently become a target of attacks by Mr. Trump, and Christopher Steele, the former British spy who compiled a dossier of purported links between the Trump campaign and Russia.
The systematic effort to win the cooperation of the oligarchs, which has not previously been revealed, does not appear to have scored any successes. And in Mr. Deripaska’s case, he told the American investigators that he disagreed with their theories about Russian organized crime and Kremlin collusion in the campaign, a person familiar with the exchanges said. The person added that Mr. Deripaska even notified the Kremlin about the American efforts to cultivate him.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/01/us/politics/deripaska-ohr-steele-fbi.html



В 2001 женитьба на внучке Ельцина Полине Юмашевой помогла Дерипаске приблизиться к Кремлю. Ныне свою судьбу в его руки передала другая девушка.

What began as a minor immigration charge has turned into a serious criminal case carrying the potential of 10 years of prison time in Thailand. And in a new interview with The New York Times, the escort, Anastasia Vashukevich, became coy about the content of her recordings — and said she now has no plan to make them public. <...>
Now, Ms. Vashukevich says she sent copies of her recordings to the tycoon, Oleg V. Deripaska, with whom she says she had an affair and whose private conversations she recorded.
Her hope is that he will rescue her from prison.
“Now I just want to wait for Oleg’s answer,” she said. “I just want to be friends.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/31/world/asia/escort-anastasia-vashukevich-nastya-rybka-trump.html



На сотрудничество со следствием удалось склонить Сэма Паттена, делового партнера Константина Килимника. Работая в Москве в 2001-2004, Паттен был формальным начальником Килимника и свёл его с Манафортом, после чего эта парочка стала выполнять поручения Дерипаски.

Об обвинениях Паттену и его сделке со следствием стало известно в пятницу. Дело на него было передано Мюллером в федеральную прокуратуру в Вашингтоне.

A former associate of Paul Manafort pleaded guilty to a lobbying crime and agreed to cooperate with the U.S., giving prosecutors access to insights from a longtime international political operative whose Russian business partner has already been indicted in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe.
The lobbyist, Sam Patten, 47, admitted that he failed to register in the U.S. as a foreign agent for his work lobbying on behalf of a Ukrainian political party. The nature of his cooperation isn’t clear. Patten worked with Manafort and on Ukrainian campaigns, and reportedly worked on microtargeting operations with Cambridge Analytica.
Mueller’s office referred the prosecution to U.S. Attorney Jessie Liu in the District of Columbia, according William Miller, a spokesman for Liu, who declined to comment about the nature of the cooperation or other matters relating to an ongoing investigation.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-31/manafort-associate-sam-patten-is-charged-with-fara-violation

Особенно интригуют ранние связи Паттена с Cambridge Analytica.

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Ссылка на обвинительное заключение Паттена и его соглашение о признании вины и сотрудничестве со следствием:

"In consideration of your client's guilty plea to the above offense, and upon the completion of full cooperation as described herein, no additional charges will be brought against the defendant for his heretofore disclosed participation in criminal activity, including FARA offenses, false statements to and obstruction of the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and causing foreign money to be paid to the 2016-17 Presidential Inaugural Committee."
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/sam-patten-plea-agreement

Упоминание вранья в показаниях Сенату создает прецедент для других людей, которые ранее врали в своих показаниях.

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Знакомый Трампа и его детей Михаил Бабель (https://puppet-djt.livejournal.com/114745.html) передал элитную московскую недвижимость в счёт «уплаты долгов» Сергею Попову - главарю подольской ОПГ и приятелю Дерипаски по преступному прошлому.



Как выяснил Forbes, у Golden Mile недавно сменился собственник. Им стал бизнесмен Сергей Попов — бенефициар компании «Идиль Девелопмент». «Идиль Девелопмент» выступает девелопером Golden Mile. Эту информацию подтвердил Forbes гендиректор компании Дмитрий Качановский. По его словам, Попов был соинвестором Golden Mile. Когда у Бабеля возникли финансовые проблемы, проект достался Попову в зачет долга. <...>
О близких отношениях Попова и Дерипаски говорили даже адвокаты последнего на суде в Лондоне. Якобы в 2001 году Дерипаска откупился от ОПГ за $173 млн — с требованием к нему пришел Попов. Но это не помешало Попову стать крестным отцом одной из дочерей Дерипаски, писали «Ведомости». «У нас было много проектов, — рассказывал Попов изданию. — Например, в конце девяностых я, Черной и Дерипаска купили у Валентина Юдашкина контрольный пакет его дома мод.
http://www.forbes.ru/milliardery/364243-chelovek-iz-90-h-zolotuyu-milyu-dostroit-byvshiy-partner-deripaski

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