Капкан захлопывается

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Сегодня утром Манафорту были предъявлены долгожданные обвинения, и он сдался Мюллеру. Вместе с ним обвиняется его партнёр Рик Гейтс.

Paul J. Manafort, Jr., 68, of Alexandria, Va., and Richard W. Gates III, 45, of Richmond, Va., have been indicted by a federal grand jury on Oct. 27, 2017, in the District of Columbia. The indictment contains 12 counts: conspiracy against the United States, conspiracy to launder money, unregistered agent of a foreign principal, false and misleading FARA statements, false statements, and seven counts of failure to file reports of foreign bank and financial accounts.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/30/politics/indictment-manafort-gates/index.html

Накануне Buzzfeed опубликовал информацию о подозрительных переводах денег Манафортом, включая печально известного Килимника.

Wire transfers flagged as suspicious show that during the waning months of Yanukovych’s presidency, Global Endeavour sent more than $750,000 out of Ukraine. None of these transactions have been previously reported.
In November and December of 2013, for example, the company transferred almost $53,000 to Konstantin Kilimnik, a Kiev-based political operator. It’s not known what the money was for.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/jasonleopold/fbi-probe-of-paul-manafort-focuses-on-13-suspicious-wire



Дополнительно Джордж Папандопулос признал себя виновным во вранье ФБР о своих контактах с российскими спецслужбами.
https://www.justice.gov/file/1007346/download

В большой игре поставлен шах, но партия продолжается.

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Читая обвинение, предъявленное Папандопулосу.

Revelation that foreign national offered campaign Russian dirt on Clinton in the form of emails in APRIL 2016 dramatically changes timelines

— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) October 30, 2017 (https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/925021341392211974?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

Mueller’s choreographed one-two punch today sends a signal to every Trump official: cooperate & get a good deal or resist & get hammered.

— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) October 30, 2017 (https://twitter.com/matthewamiller/status/925027905977057282?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

Special Counsel Mueller appears to have a cooperating witness, George Papadopoulos. That is significant. Time will tell how significant.

— Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) October 30, 2017 (https://twitter.com/PreetBharara/status/925008887476031488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

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Washington Post вычислили лондонский контакт Пападопулоса: Джозеф Мифсуд.

The email appears to match one described to The Washington Post in August in which Papadopoulos identified the professor with whom he met as Joseph Mifsud, the director of the London Academy of Diplomacy.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-campaign-adviser-pleaded-guilty-to-lying-about-russian-contacts/2017/10/30/d525e712-bd7d-11e7-97d9-bdab5a0ab381_story.html

http://valdaiclub.com/about/experts/3147/

В сноске обвинительного заключения Папандопулосу упоминается переписка между двумя сотрудниками избирательной кампании Трампа.



Согласно предыдущим публикациям, это были Манафорт и Гейтс.

Manafort reacted coolly, forwarding the email to his associate Rick Gates, with a note: “We need someone to communicate that DT is not doing these trips.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-campaign-emails-show-aides-repeated-efforts-to-set-up-russia-meetings/2017/08/14/54d08da6-7dc2-11e7-83c7-5bd5460f0d7e_story.html

Остается неизвестным, кого они решили послать вместо Трампа на встречу с Путиным "so as not to send any signal", но можно предположить, что это был Картер Пейдж.

В досье Стила сообщается:

Speaking in confidence to a compatriot in late July 2016, Source E, an ethnic Russian close associate of Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump, admitted that there was a well-developed conspiracy of co-operation between them and the Russian leadership. This was managed on the TRUMP side by the Republican candidate’s campaign manager, Paul MANAFORT, who was using foreign policy advisor, Carter PAGE, and others as intermediaries. The two sides had a mutual interest in defeating Democratic presidential candidate Hillary CLINTON, whom President PUTIN apparently both hated and feared.
https://themoscowproject.org/dossier.html

Предположительно, "Source E, an ethnic Russian close associate of Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump" - это Сергей Миллиан, хороший знакомый Папандопулоса.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/who-is-source-d-the-man-said-to-be-behind-the-trump-russia-dossiers-most-salacious-claim/2017/03/29/379846a8-0f53-11e7-9d5a-a83e627dc120_story.html

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Замешанным также оказался Сэм Кловис (https://puppet-djt.livejournal.com/35345.html).

But they quote one unidentified campaign “supervisor” as emailing him in August 2016 that “I would encourage you” to make a trip to Moscow to arrange such a meeting. A Trump campaign source identified the supervisor as Sam Clovis, a conservative radio host who was co-chairman of the campaign.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/mueller-discloses-trump-campaign-aide-pled-guilty-lying-russian-contacts-181302597.html

Sam Clovis, the former top Trump campaign official who supervised a man now cooperating with the FBI's Russia investigation, was questioned last week by special counsel Robert Mueller's team and testified before the investigating grand jury, a person with first-hand knowledge of the matter told NBC News.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/top-trump-campaign-aide-clovis-spoke-mueller-team-grand-jury-n816106