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		</div><h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Natalia Veselnitskaya, ;Russian lawyer at notorious Trump Tower meeting is charged with obstruction of justice in separate case</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>She&#8217;s also accused of being secretly in league with top Putin prosecutor</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Prosecutors in the Southern District of New York filed the separate charges which do not ;</strong></span><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>relate to the infamous June 2016 Trump Tower meeting</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Relates to a money laundering case and her representation of Prevezon Holdings &#8211; a</strong><strong> ;major Russian money-laundering case that was unexpectedly settled in New York in May of 2017</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>She ; represented the Russian real estate conglomerate in a case brought by former Manhattan U.S. attorney Preet Bharara in 2015</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Bharara was fired days before the $230million money laundering case against Prevzon was settled  ;for a ;mere $6million while ; the prosecutor&#8217;s office was left to pickup the huge welfare tabs for the Russian witnesses and legal team</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Prosecutors allege she concealed her secret cooperation with a Russian prosecutor in the case </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Language in the indictment it is believed, further cements Veselnitskaya&#8217;s ties to the Russian government</strong></span></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Veselnitskaya allegedly was working to overturn anti-corruption laws around the world with the aid of late Russian ;Deputy prosecutor-general Saak Karapetyan, a long term ally of President Vladimir Putin</span></strong></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Veselnitskaya met with Trump surrogates Donald Trump Jr, Paul Manafort and Jared Kushner in Trump Tower during 2016 campaign</span></strong></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #000000;">She later claimed they discussed prospect of overturning Magnitsky Act; Don Jr said they talked about Russian adoption policy</span></strong></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Karapetyan was killed when his ;helicopter ;crashed in Kostroma, northeast of Moscow, killing all aboard on Oct 4, ;just hours before Dutch security unveiled the identities of four GRU spies</span></strong></h6>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><strong><img class="" src="https://i2.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Natalia-Veselnitskaya-1.jpg?zoom=0.8999999761581421&;ssl=1&;w=450" alt="Natalia Veselnitskaya 1" width="580" height="731">Kremlin connected lawyer ;</strong><strong>Natalia Veselnitskaya [photo], has been charge with obstructing justice in a 2015 high level case brought by ;</strong><strong>Fed prosecutors in New York ; ;</strong></h6>
<div>Cleaning up the unsavory settlement of a past unrelated case, federal prosecutors in New York have filed a criminal indictment against Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Russian lawyer who led the Russian delegation at the infamous Trump Tower meeting with ;Donald Trump ;Jr. and other top level members of the Trump campaign team.<br />
The charges allege Veselnitskaya obstructed justice in a ;<a href="https://konniemoments.com/2017/07/15/how-come-natalia-veselnitskaya-russian-lawyer-who-met-with-don-trump-jr-enjoyed-lavish-u-s-taxpayer-funded-meals-hotel-accomodations-during-2015-case/">civil case relating to money laundering and forfeiture of assets.</a><br />
The Kremlin connected attorney represented a Russian real estate conglomerate in a case brought by former Manhattan U.S. attorney Preet Bharara in 2015, who was fired before the $230million money laundering case against Prevzon. The case was ultimately settled  ;for a ;mere $6million while prosecutor ;Bharara’s office was ordered to reimburse Prevezon $50,365.72 for bringing three people from Russia, including ;Veselnitskaya, ; to New York City from Oct. 13 to Oct.16, 2015 for depositions.<br />
The hefty sum included “airfare, hotels, meals, and interpreter services,” according to a Nov. 25, 2015 letter filed by prosecutors.<br />
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Almost two years after that &#8216;sweetheart deal&#8217; settlement, the indictment states that defense attorney Veselnitskaya obstructed justice in her representation of Cyprus-based Prevezon Holdings by making an &#8216;intentionally misleading declaration&#8217; in the case, a major Russian money-laundering case that was <a href="http://A major Russian money-laundering case was unexpectedly settled in New York">unexpectedly settled in New York</a> in May of 2017.<br />
Her alleged obstruction relates to her statements about her cooperation with the Russian government in the case.<br />
While she stated that investigative findings that were presented to the court were &#8216;independently drafted,&#8217; in fact Veselnitskaya &#8216;well knew but concealed from the Court&#8217; that she helped to draft them, fed prosecutors said.<br />
She cooperated with a senior Russian prosecutor &#8216;in secret.&#8217;</div>
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<h6 class="image-wrap fff-pic"><img class="" src="https://i2.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/natalia-veselnitskaya-1.jpg?zoom=0.8999999761581421&;ssl=1&;w=450" alt="Natalia Veselnitskaya 1" width="580" height="823"><strong>Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya attended a Trump Tower meeting in 2016 with Donald Trump Jr. and other top Trump officials. She is accused of covering up her cooperation with Russian prosecutors in an unrelated case</strong></h6>
<div>That language in the indictment further cements Veselnitskaya&#8217;s ties to the Russian government, as much as suggested in the original emails that served to set up the Trump Tower meeting.<br />
The case relates by the U.S. government&#8217;s efforts to recover millions worth of property and New York real estate from Prevezon that was involved in laundering a tax fraud scheme, prosecutors say.<br />
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The perpetrators plowed some of the monies from the tax fraud scheme into New York real estate – funds the U.S. government sought to recover.<br />
In the scheme &#8216;corrupt Russian government officials defrauded Russian taxpayers out of approximately 5.4 billion rubles, or over $200 million,&#8217; according to the indictment.<br />
The case does not relate to the infamous Trump Tower meeting.</div>
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<h6 class="image-wrap fff-pic"><img class="" src="https://i2.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Paul-Manafort-Donald-Trump-Jr-Jared-Kushner-1.jpg?zoom=0.8999999761581421&;ssl=1&;w=450" alt="Paul Manafort, Donald Trump Jr, Jared Kushner 1" width="580" height="347"><strong>Former Trump campaign manager ;Paul Manafort [left], who is now in prison awaiting sentencing on corruption charges, Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner [center], and ;Donald Trump Jr. have all admitted to attending the contentious 2016 Trump Tower meeting with the Russian delegation</strong></h6>
<div>However, the parent company of multiple victims hired ;Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky to help in their effort. Magnitsky ultimately ended up dead in a Russian prison – and his name is associated with the Magnitsky Act, which allows for imposition of sanctions on human rights violators in Russia.<br />
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The Magnitsky act continues to be a major irritant to the Russian government, and the lifting of sanctions appears to have been one of her primary objectives during the Trump Tower meeting, which was initially arranged after the dangling of potential dirt on Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential campaign.<br />
<strong>Related: ;</strong> <a href="https://konniemoments.com/2017/07/15/how-come-natalia-veselnitskaya-russian-lawyer-who-met-with-don-trump-jr-enjoyed-lavish-u-s-taxpayer-funded-meals-hotel-accomodations-during-2015-case/">How Come? Natalia Veselnitskaya, Russian Lawyer who met Don Trump Jr. enjoyed, US tax payer-funded meals, hotel accommodations during 2015 case</a></p>
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<div class="mh-excerpt"><strong>‘She came for a deposition and wasn’t even deposed in person during the all expense paid trip’ Russian lawyer who met with Trump Jr. enjoyed lavish, U.S.</strong> ;<a title="How come? Natalia Veselnitskaya, Russian lawyer who met with Don Trump Jr. enjoyed lavish, U.S. taxpayer-funded meals, hotel accomodations during 2015 case –" href="https://konniemoments.com/2017/07/15/how-come-natalia-veselnitskaya-russian-lawyer-who-met-with-don-trump-jr-enjoyed-lavish-u-s-taxpayer-funded-meals-hotel-accomodations-during-2015-case/">[&#8230;]</a></div>
<p>The U.S. attorney&#8217;s office settled the case against Prevezon last year for ;$5.8 million, a small fraction of the monies originally alleged to have been involved.<br />
The indictment references an earlier complaint about the scheme itself, which involved claiming tax refunds based on the stolen identities of three companies held by a foreign investment fund. The stolen refunds were claimed by arranging &#8216;false contractual defaults against the stolen companies,&#8217; and then claiming refunds based on the defaults that didn&#8217;t happen.</p>
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<h6><strong><img class="" src="https://i1.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Sergei-Magnitsky-1.png?zoom=0.8999999761581421&;ssl=1&;w=450" alt="Sergei Magnitsky 1" width="580" height="372">Exiled Russian attorney Sergei Magnitsky represented fraud victims and ultimately died in Russian police custody</strong></h6>
<h6><img src="https://i2.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/former-manhattan-u-s-attorney-preet-bharara.jpg?zoom=0.8999999761581421&;w=620&;ssl=1" alt="Former Manhattan U.S. attorney Preet Bharara" width="580" height="386"><strong>The Russian lawyer represented a Russian real estate conglomerate in a case brought by former Manhattan U.S. attorney Preet Bharara [photo] in 2015, who was fired before the $230million money laundering case against Prevzon was settled  ;for a ;</strong><strong>mere $6million in 2017</strong></h6>
<p>According to federal prosecutors, defends in the Prevezon action filed papers with the court in 2015. In her own declaration, Veselnitskaya stated that she had &#8216;gone to great lengths&#8217; to get a copy of a document from the Russian prosecutors&#8217; office.<br />
That document, filed in 2014, included investigatory findings that &#8216;exonerate all Russian government personnel, and accused investment company personnel of committing fraud. It also accused Magnitsky himself of committing the Russian Treasury Fraud, when as the feds outline he reported it.</p>
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But based on emails and even software that tracks editing changes, prosecutors in New York say she participated in drafting the response, and emailed the personal account of a supervising Russian prosecutor.<br />
The Russian prosecutor then helped Veselnitskaya create the &#8216;false impression&#8217; that she hadn&#8217;t assisted – even helping her file a complaint against the Prosecutor General&#8217;s Office seeking access to the documents she helped create.</p>
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<h6 class="mol-para-with-font"><img src="https://i1.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Saak-Karapetyan-left-was-closely-tied-to-lawyer-Natalia-Veselnitskaya-right-1.jpg?zoom=0.8999999761581421&;resize=620%2C383&;ssl=1" srcset="https://i1.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Saak-Karapetyan-left-was-closely-tied-to-lawyer-Natalia-Veselnitskaya-right-1.jpg?zoom=0.8999999761581421&;resize=580%2C357&;ssl=1" alt="Saak Karapetyan [left] was closely tied to lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya [right] 1.JPG" width="580" height="356"><strong>Russia&#8217;s Deputy prosecutor-general Saak Karapetyan [left], died in a helicopter crash on Oct 4, 2018. He was closely tied to lawyer ;Natalia Veselnitskaya [right], of the Trump Tower meeting fame – leading to widespread speculation of a coverup</strong></h6>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">The first email in a chain released by Donald Trump Jr. also references a Russian prosecutor.<br />
The email, from British music publicist Rob Goldstone to Trump Jr. referenced Trump-connected pop singer Emin and stated: &#8216;Emin just called and asked me to contact you with something very interesting.&#8217;<br />
&#8216;The Crown prosecutor of Russia met with his father Aras this morning and in their meeting offered to provide the Trump campaign with some official documents and information that would incriminate Hillary and her dealings with Russia and would be very useful to your father,&#8217; according to the email.<br />
The charges against Veselnitskaya were filed under seal December 20, 2018 and unsealed Tuesday.</p>
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<h6 class="mol-para-with-font"><img src="https://i2.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/ag-jeff-sessions-3.jpg?zoom=0.8999999761581421&;resize=620%2C412&;ssl=1" srcset="https://i2.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/ag-jeff-sessions-3.jpg?zoom=0.8999999761581421&;resize=580%2C385&;ssl=1" alt="AG jeff Sessions 3.jpg" width="580" height="385"><strong>House Judiciary Committee Democrats</strong><strong> ;at the time demanded former</strong><strong> ;Attorney General Jeff Sessions [photo] clarify whether Veselnitskaya had a hand in settlement talks between Prevezon Holdings Ltd. and the Dept of Justice</strong></h6>
<p>Significantly, the government’s case against Prevzon Holdings Ltd. was expeditiously settled by the Trump administration, &#8216;on terms incredibly favorable to the defendant&#8217;, and only after ;Preet Bharara, ;the former chief protagonist on the government side was inexplicably ;fired by the incoming administration.<br />
The feds settled with Prevezon for just $6 million in May, 2017, only two days before the trial for alleged money laundering in a $230 million tax fraud.<br />
House Democrats ;are ;up in arms demanding ;why the Trump Justice Department agreed to suddenly settle the major case for so little money.<br />
House Judiciary ranking member John Conyers and other Democrats wrote a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions asking if Veselnitskaya participated in Prevezon settlement talks.</p>
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Kremlin connected lawyer at center of notorious Trump Tower meeting indicted – Natalia Veselnitskaya has been charged with obstruction of justice in separate case and accused of being secretly in league with top Russian prosecutor
