The Guardian is out with a pice about Mueller & Co. hot on the trail of more Russians….
There was a drop a few days ago about Donald Trump Jr. possibly getting charged….
And there is the Roger Stone investigation….
The Manafort singing…
And who knows what else?
All the above do NOT sound like Mueller and Co. are ready to call it quits…
A Russian man who is said to have ties to Moscow’s intelligence services will be receiving renewed scrutiny from special counsel Robert Mueller’s inquiry into Russian 2016 election interference, according to former federal prosecutors.
Mueller is investigating Konstantin Kilimnik with assistance from three Kilimnik associates, including Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who mentored Kilimnik as a political operative for pro-Kremlin figures in Ukraine.
Kilimnik, an elusive 48-year-old, has already been charged by Mueller with witness tampering. His most recent business partner has been charged with illegally funneling $50,000 from a wealthy Ukrainian into Trump’s inauguration fund.
Kilimnik was also caught up in Manafort’s apparent intentions in 2016 to use his position at Trump’s side to settle multimillion-dollar debts claimed by their ex-client Oleg Deripaska, an oligarch close to Vladimir Putin, the Russian president.
In addition to Manafort, Mueller’s team is also making use of plea agreements with Manafort’s former deputy, Rick Gates, and with the lobbyist Sam Patten, both of whom were Kilimnik business associates and must cooperate with investigators…..
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“Konstantin Kilimnik” sounds like an associate of Rosa Klebb’s in From Russia With Love.
He, he, he….
A REAL Rusky, eh?
Or Ukrainian, which to V. Putiin’s mind is just about the same thing.
Ever since the satellite countries left the ‘Union’ he’s been trying to steal them back…..
They don’t WANT TO RETURN even if HE thinks they belong to him, eh?
Too bad his efforts to co-op Trump haven’t worked…..
He said that the greatest tragedy of the 20th century was — not World War I, World War II, Operation Barbarossa, Hiroshima & Nagasaki, the Holocaust or some ghastly famine — but the breakup of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Touche!