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The '''Magnitsky Act of 2012''', commonly referred to as the '''Russian Sanctions bill''' was sponsored by Sen. [[John McCain]] at the urging of an ex-United States citizen who renounced his citizenship to avoid paying U.S. taxes.

The '''Magnitsky Act of 2012''', commonly referred to as the '''Russian Sanctions bill''' was sponsored by Sen. [[John McCain]] at the urging of an ex-United States citizen who renounced his citizenship to avoid paying U.S. taxes.

The law is named for Serge Magnitsky, an investigator who was allegedly starved and murdered on the 357th day of a 365-day sentence while in a Russian prison. His employer, [[Bill Browder]], is a billionaire global investor who renounced his U.S. citizenship in 1998 and became a [[UK]] citizen to avoid paying US taxes.<ref>Browder is the grandson of [[Great Depression|Depression]] and [[World War II]] era [[CPUSA]] General Secretary [[Earl Browder]]. In a review of ''[[New York Times]]'' reporter Anne Williamson's book, ''Contagion: The Betrayal of Liberty -- Russia and the United States in the 1990'', Paul Likoudis writes: "According to the [[socialist]] theoreticians at [[Harvard]], Russia needed to be brought into the [[New World Order]] in a hurry; and what better way to do it than [Jeffrey] Sachs' "shock therapy" -- a plan that empowered the degenerate, third-generation descendants of the original [[Bolshevik]]s by assigning them the deeds of Russia's mightiest state-owned industries -- including the giant gas, oil, electrical, and telecommunications industries, the world's largest paper, iron, and steel factories, the world's richest gold, silver, diamond, and platinum mines, automobile and airplane factories, etc. -- who, in turn, sold some of their shares of the properties to Westerners for a song, and pocketed the cash, while retaining control of the companies.

The law is named for Serge Magnitsky, an investigator who was allegedly starved and murdered on the 357th day of a 365-day sentence while in a Russian prison. His employer was [[Bill Browder]], the grandson of [[Stalin]]ist operative [[Earl Browder]]. Bill Browder renounced his U.S. citizenship in 1998 to avoid taxes and became a [[UK]] citizen. Browder made his billions looting the former [[Soviet Union]].<ref>In a review of ''[[New York Times]]'' reporter Anne Williamson's book, ''Contagion: The Betrayal of Liberty -- Russia and the United States in the 1990'', Paul Likoudis writes: "According to the [[socialist]] theoreticians at [[Harvard]], Russia needed to be brought into the [[New World Order]] in a hurry; and what better way to do it than [Jeffrey] Sachs' "shock therapy" -- a plan that empowered the degenerate, third-generation descendants of the original [[Bolshevik]]s by assigning them the deeds of Russia's mightiest state-owned industries -- including the giant gas, oil, electrical, and telecommunications industries, the world's largest paper, iron, and steel factories, the world's richest gold, silver, diamond, and platinum mines, automobile and airplane factories, etc. -- who, in turn, sold some of their shares of the properties to Westerners for a song, and pocketed the cash, while retaining control of the companies.

These third-generation Bolsheviks -- led by former [[Pravda]] hack Yegor Gaidar, grandson of a Bolshevik who achieved prominence as the teenage mass murderer of White Army officers, now heads the Moscow-based Institute for Economies in Transition -- became instant millionaires (or billionaires) and left the Russian workers virtual slaves of them and their new foreign investors."<br>[https://www.blacklistednews.com/HOW_CLINTON_AND_COMPANY_AND_THE_BANKERS_PLUNDERED_RUSSIA_IN_THE_%2790S/48111/0/38/38/Y/M.html HOW CLINTON AND COMPANY AND THE BANKERS PLUNDERED RUSSIA IN THE '90s], Paul Likoudis, January 2, 2016 </ref> With the collapse of the Soviet [[economic planning|command and control economy]], bankrupt [[Soviet]] government economic enterprises were privatized and sold off, attracting much needed outside foreign investment. Browder made very large investments and was a close ally of [[Vladimir Putin]].

These third-generation Bolsheviks -- led by former [[Pravda]] hack Yegor Gaidar, grandson of a Bolshevik who achieved prominence as the teenage mass murderer of White Army officers, now heads the Moscow-based Institute for Economies in Transition -- became instant millionaires (or billionaires) and left the Russian workers virtual slaves of them and their new foreign investors."<br>[https://www.blacklistednews.com/HOW_CLINTON_AND_COMPANY_AND_THE_BANKERS_PLUNDERED_RUSSIA_IN_THE_%2790S/48111/0/38/38/Y/M.html HOW CLINTON AND COMPANY AND THE BANKERS PLUNDERED RUSSIA IN THE '90s], Paul Likoudis, January 2, 2016 </ref> With the collapse of the Soviet [[economic planning|command and control economy]], bankrupt [[Soviet]] government economic enterprises were privatized and sold off, attracting much needed outside foreign investment. Browder made very large investments and was a close ally of [[Vladimir Putin]].