NBC was about to release a long and, I hoped, hard-hitting exposé on everything surrounding the Magnitsky case. I didn’t know when it would air, but I hoped it would at least come out before the Judiciary Committee hearing. About a month later, on July 7, as Elena and I were packing for Colorado, the story aired on MSNBC. The reporter, Richard Engel, didn’t just go into Sergei’s story and the $230 million fraud, but also talked about Vladimir Kara-Murza’s poisoning, Boris Nemtsov’s assassination, and Nikolai Gorokhov’s rooftop “accident.” It was fantastic.
