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Bill Browder
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April 19 - May 1, 2022
“Bill, we’ll make sure these bastards never forget the name ‘Sergei Magnitsky.’ ”
Given that earlier in the day I’d accused the Russian government of having merged with Russian organized crime, I wasn’t too keen to engage further with any Russian, let alone a beautiful woman who “normally” worked in “fashion.”
The orphans Russia put up for adoption to foreigners were the sick ones, suffering from things like Down syndrome, spina bifida, and fetal alcohol syndrome, and often wouldn’t survive in a Russian orphanage. By banning Americans from adopting these children, Putin was effectively sentencing some of them to death to protect his own corrupt officials.
Somehow, she was able to convince them that all fathers fought with Vladimir Putin, and that our lives were completely normal.
The Katsyv family lawyer in Moscow, a woman I’d never heard of named Natalia Veselnitskaya, even tried to make it sound like I was the defendant, not Prevezon.
Laughed out loud when I first read this name in the book, as it is one I was already very familiar with from The Mueller Report.
Marine Le Pen, the leader of the far-right National Front party, openly took millions of euros from a Kremlin-connected bank
Go figure!
After the deposition, I could now focus on trying to get justice for Boris Nemtsov.
Vladimir Kara-Murza, a good Russian, had come under the care of Dr. Denis Protsenko, another good Russian. And that had made all the difference.
Just arrested in 2022 again
Rohrabacher burnished his pro-Putin bona fides by being one of only a handful of lawmakers to vote against the Magnitsky Act.
Nekrasov’s movie was classic Russian dezinformatsiya. It didn’t have to prove anything. All it had to do was plant a seed of doubt.
Natalia Veselnitskaya. Her presence was curious. This film had nothing to do with Prevezon or the Katsyvs. She claimed to be there as a representative of an NGO called the Human Rights Accountability Global Initiative (HRAGI), which was a mysterious organization we had never heard of.
HRAGI’s stated purpose was overturning Putin’s adoption ban—code for repealing the Magnitsky Act in the United States.
We filed our complaint with Heather on July 15, 2016, accusing Cymrot, Simpson, Cooper, Akhmetshin, and three other Americans of violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
The easiest way for the Russians to diminish the potency of this dossier would be to deliberately insert disinformation into it.
The fact that the Magnitsky Act was at the center of one of the biggest political scandals in US history was disorienting. What was equally unbelievable was that the Russian government, through Veselnitskaya, had been able to get an audience with the son of the next president of the United States.
Most people barely noticed this admission, but it was extraordinary. President Trump and his son both knew that “adoption” was an innocuous-sounding code for the Magnitsky Act, and now both men were trying very hard to make the Trump Tower meeting sound a lot less sinister than it had been.
For the first time, it all made sense: one of the main reasons Putin had interfered in the US election was because of the Magnitsky Act.
documents recently seized from Paul Manafort by the FBI confirmed that I had been a principal subject of the infamous Trump Tower meeting. (The first thing Manafort had written was “Bill Browder.”
Fox was notoriously pro-Trump, but on this issue, they were just as confused and outraged as everyone else. There was no daylight between them, CNN, or even MSNBC.
