https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Tower_meeting#Participants
Participants[edit]
Trump campaign officials[edit]
Play media
News report from Voice of America
Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law, responsible for the campaign's digital, online, and social media operations.[23]
Paul Manafort, campaign manager for the presidential campaign of Donald Trump from 29 March 2016 to 19 August 2016. He was formerly a lobbyist.[24]
Donald Trump Jr., eldest son of Donald Trump, active in the presidential campaign[25] as a key political aide and advisor to his father.[26]
Russian lobbyists[edit]
Natalia Veselnitskaya, a Russian lawyer best known in the United States for lobbying against the Magnitsky Act. In Moscow she is regarded as a "trusted insider" who has argued cases for government agencies and high-profile clients including Pyotr Katsyv, an official in the state-owned Russian Railways, and his son Denis, whom she defended against a money laundering charge in New York.[27][28] She has also been an informant in active communication with Yury Chaika, the Russian prosecutor general, since 2013.[20] Starting in 2014, she had worked with Fusion GPS, the firm that was later hired to do opposition research on Trump, to investigate an unrelated money-laundering case involving Prevezon Holding, and the "dirt" she brought with her to the meeting stemmed from that work. The work on the Prevezon case, and later on the dossier, were completely separate, and Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee that they were unaware that Veselnitskaya would meet with Trump campaign members or share anything from the Prevezon case with them.[29]
Rinat Akhmetshin, a Russian-American lobbyist and former Soviet counterintelligence officer suspected of "having ongoing ties to Russian Intelligence",[30][31] although he denies it.[30] After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, he immigrated to the United States in 1993 and became a U.S. citizen in 2009.[32][33] According to the New York Times, Akhmetshin has “a history of working for close allies of President Vladimir V. Putin.”[34][35]
Other participants[edit]
Rob Goldstone, the publicist of Emin Agalarov, who said that Agalarov asked him to contact Trump Jr. New York attorney Scott S. Balber, who was retained by Emin and Aras Agalarov, denied that Goldstone's emails accurately outlined the origins of the meeting.[36]
Anatoli Samochornov, a translator for Veselnitskaya. In the past, Samochornov worked for Meridian International and did contract work for the U.S. State Department as an interpreter. Samochornov is not an employee of the State Department.[37]
Ike Kaveladze, a Georgian-American, US-based senior vice president at Crocus Group, the real estate development company run by Aras Agalarov. Kaveladze's lawyer Scott Balber, who also represents Aras and Emin Agalarov, stated that Kaveladze attended the meeting as the Agalarov family's emissary “just to make sure it happened and to serve as an interpreter if necessary.”[38][39]