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Trump’s possible links with organized crime have been under scrutiny for many years.
Special Counsel investigation
Special counsel Robert Mueller, the former FBI director, is leading a sprawling investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, potential collusion and other potential crimes uncovered during the course of his investigation. He was appointed shortly after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey in May 2017. Mueller took over an investigation that Comey started under the FBI’s counterintelligence division in July 2016. This list includes actions taken before Mueller took charge.
Senate Intelligence Committee investigation
In January, the Senate Intelligence Committee opened its investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. The investigation is led by Sen. Richard Burr, the Republican committee chairman, and Sen. Mark Warner, the committee’s Democratic vice chairman. Burr said in October that the committee has already interviewed more than 100 witnesses and reviewed more than 100,000 pages of documents.
House Intelligence Committee investigation
The House Intelligence Committee is also investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 election. The committee is chaired by Rep. Devin Nunes, a Republican, but he stepped aside from the investigation in April after he became embroiled in a controversy of his own, relating to how he handled classified documents. Instead, Republican Rep. Mike Conaway is leading the probe alongside Rep. Adam Schiff, the Democratic ranking member. This panel’s investigation has been marred by bitter infighting and political tumult.
Senate Judiciary Committee investigation
The Senate Judiciary Committee, led by Republican chairman Chuck Grassley and Democratic ranking member Dianne Feinstein, is conducting its own investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. The panel oversees the Justice Department, so it is keenly interested in exploring whether the Trump administration interfered with the FBI’s affairs, which could amount to obstruction of justice.
House Oversight Committee
The House Oversight Committee is not undertaking a full-blown investigation into Russian meddling in the election. However, the panel has scrutinized some of the actions of Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn, as well as Comey’s firing.
Democratic Party Files Law Suit Against Russia and Trump Mob
Democratic Party sues Russia, Trump campaign and WikiLeaks alleging 2016 campaign conspiracy
Russia engaged in a “brazen attack on U.S. soil” the party alleges, a campaign that began with the hack of its computer networks in 2015 and 2016.
Trump campaign officials received repeated outreach from Russia, the suit says. “Rather than report these repeated messages and communications that Russia intended to interfere in the U.S. election, the Trump campaign and its agents gleefully welcomed Russia’s help,” the party argues.
Ultimately, Trump’s associates entered into an agreement with Russian agents “to promote Donald Trump’s candidacy through illegal means,” the suit concludes.
The video above provides the full historic significance of this law suit.
Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn started advising Trump on national security in early 2016. When Trump took office in January 2017, Flynn served as his national security adviser, but resigned after one month amid questions about his links to Russia. In December 2017, Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with the Russian ambassador during the Trump transition.
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Wilbur Ross
Donald Trump’s commerce secretary, Wilbur Ross, is doing business with Vladimir Putin’s son-in-law through a shipping venture in Russia.
Leaked documents and public filings show Ross holds a stake in a shipping company, Navigator, through a chain of offshore investments. Navigator operates a lucrative partnership with Sibur, a Russian gas company part-owned by Kirill Shamalov, the husband of Putin’s daughter Katerina Tikhonova.
The involvement of
Ross and Shamalov in
the shipping venture
dates back to 2011.
That year, Ross’s
investment firm, WL
Ross, began buying
into Navigator with
an investment that
gave him two seats
on the company’s
board. Meanwhile, in
Moscow, Shamalov
began investing in
Sibur, which was
formerly state
owned.
By January 2012, having built up his holding in the Russian company, Shamalov, then 29, was made deputy chairman of its management board. That summer, WL Ross took control of Navigator by buying a further $110m stake from the collapsed Lehman Brothers bank.
Shamalov is the son of Nikolai Shamalov, one of Putin’s oldest friends from St Petersburg, where Putin worked in the mayor’s office. He married Katerina in a secret ceremony in February 2013.
Ross and the Russians
Ross built lucrative connections to Russian business during a 40-year career that banked him an estimated fortune of $2.9bn, making him comfortably the wealthiest member of Trump’s cabinet.
His private equity firm, WL Ross, earned him a reputation as a ruthless corporate raider. Ross took over bankrupt companies, turned them around by slashing costs, and sold them for large profits. An early critic of free trade, who profited from tariffs to protect US steelmakers, Ross has been deputised by Trump to fulfill the president’s populist campaign promise to overhaul international trade deals.
In 2014, Ross led a €1bn takeover of the Bank of Cyprus, a favoured destination for Moscow oligarchs seeking to store their wealth. Until 2013, the bank’s biggest shareholder was the Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev. In 2008, as the US began to fall into a financial crisis, Rybolovlev bought a Florida mansion from Trump for $95m. The future president had paid $41m for it four years earlier.
Ross has been a trusted associate of the president since the early 1990s, when he helped to bail out Trump’s beleaguered casino portfolio in Atlantic City, New Jersey, which had left him on the verge of bankruptcy.
Ross sat on the senior leadership team of Bank of Cyprus alongside Vladimir Strzhalkovsky, a former KGB colleague of Putin’s who is also on the board of several state corporations in Moscow.
And in 2015, while Ross was vice-chairman of the bank, its Russia-based businesses were sold off to Artem Avetisyan, a Russian businessman who had been appointed by Putin to lead an agency responsible for strengthening ties between the Kremlin and business.
Satan's Residence
Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, has chosen to display his misanthropy defiantly by proudly displaying the Number Of The Beast prominently on the face of the New York property he, and his family, have been attempting to develop for several years.