Russian ATTY, Trump Tower mtg, charged, MONEYLAUNDER'G to buy NYC real estate

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She had deep ties to Putin and the oligarchs. Apparently she laundered money for the purposes of buying high end real estate in NYC. Anyone think some of them might be Trump properties? Nahhh...

(You believe she met with TRUMP JR to discuss ADOPTIONS, right?)


Veselnitskaya, Russian in Trump Tower Meeting, Is Charged in Case That Shows Kremlin Ties


Natalia V. Veselnitskaya was charged on Tuesday with seeking to thwart a Justice Department investigation into money
laundering.CreditYury Martyanov/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images


Natalia V. Veselnitskaya was charged on Tuesday with seeking to thwart a Justice Department investigation into money laundering.
CreditCreditYury Martyanov/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

By Benjamin Weiser

• Jan. 8, 2019

Natalia V. Veselnitskaya, the Russian lawyer who in 2016 met with Trump campaign officials in Trump Tower, was charged on Tuesday in a separate case that showed her close ties to the Kremlin.

Ms. Veselnitskaya, a pivotal figure in the investigation into Russian interference in the presidential election, was charged by federal prosecutors in New York with seeking to thwart an earlier Justice Department investigation into money laundering that involved an influential Russian businessman and his investment firm.

The money-laundering case was not directly related to the Trump Tower meeting. But a federal indictment returned in Manhattan seemed to confirm that Ms. Veselnitskaya had deep ties to senior Russian government officials.

The charges stem from the Justice Department’s 2013 civil investigation into the role that Ms. Veselnitskaya’s clients — Prevezon Holdings Ltd. and its owner, Denis P. Katsyv — played in a scheme to launder ill-gotten money through New York real estate purchase...


https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/08/n...ndictment.html