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Deripaska ultimately spent $25 million assembling a private search and rescue team that worked with contacts in Iran connected with his aluminum business.
Deripaska ultimately spent $25 million assembling a private search and rescue team that worked with contacts in Iran connected with his aluminum business.
Deripaska is one of the first Russians the FBI asked for help when it began investigating the ''Steele dossier''. The agents posited a theory that Trump's campaign was secretly colluding with Russia to hijack the U.S. election. {{Quotebox|"Deripaska laughed but realized, despite the joviality, that they were serious," said his agent [[Adam Waldman]]. "So he told them in his informed opinion the idea they were proposing was false. 'You are trying to create something out of nothing,' he told them."<ref>https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/387625-mueller-may-have-a-conflict-and-it-leads-directly-to-a-russian-oligarch</ref>}}
Deripaska is one of the first Russians the FBI asked for help when it began investigating the ''Steele dossier''. The agents posited a theory that Trump's campaign was secretly colluding with Russia to hijack the U.S. election.
{{Quotebox-float|"Deripaska laughed but realized, despite the joviality, that they were serious," said his agent [[Adam Waldman]]. "So he told them in his informed opinion the idea they were proposing was false. 'You are trying to create something out of nothing,' he told them."<ref>https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/387625-mueller-may-have-a-conflict-and-it-leads-directly-to-a-russian-oligarch</ref>}}
Deripaska once hired Paul Manafort as a political adviser. In an affidavit attached to the July 2017 warrant application, an FBI agent said he reviewed tax returns for a company controlled by Manafort and his wife that showed a $10 million loan from Deripaska.<ref>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-manafort/manafort-had-10-million-loan-from-russian-oligarch-court-filing-idUSKBN1JN2YF</ref> Mueller's indictment of Manafort makes no mention of Deripaska. Prof. [[Alan Dershowitz]] said he believes Mueller has a [[conflict of interest]] because Mueller's FBI previously accepted financial help from a Russian that is, at the very least, a witness in the current probe; {{Quotebox|"The real question becomes whether it was proper to leave [Deripaska] out of the Manafort indictment, and whether that omission was to avoid the kind of transparency that is really required by the law.'}}
Deripaska once hired Paul Manafort as a political adviser. In an affidavit attached to the July 2017 warrant application, an FBI agent said he reviewed tax returns for a company controlled by Manafort and his wife that showed a $10 million loan from Deripaska.<ref>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-manafort/manafort-had-10-million-loan-from-russian-oligarch-court-filing-idUSKBN1JN2YF</ref> Mueller's indictment of Manafort makes no mention of Deripaska. Prof. [[Alan Dershowitz]] said he believes Mueller has a [[conflict of interest]] because Mueller's FBI previously accepted financial help from a Russian that is, at the very least, a witness in the current probe;
{{Quotebox-float|"The real question becomes whether it was proper to leave [Deripaska] out of the Manafort indictment, and whether that omission was to avoid the kind of transparency that is really required by the law.'}}
Tony Podesta represented the [[Brussels]] based European Centre for Modern Ukraine (ECFMU), a front organization for former Ukrainian President [[Viktor Yanukovych]]. The ECFMU was founded to enhance [[EU]]-Ukrainian relations. The ECFMU is linked with the Ukrainian Party of Regions. Podesta was paid $900,000.<ref>Hosenball, Mark (December 20, 2013). [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-ukraine-lobbying/with-cash-ukraines-political-foes-bring-fight-to-washington-idUSBRE9BJ1B220131220 With cash, Ukraine's political foes bring fight to Washington]. ''Reuters''. Retrieved September 30, 2018.</ref>
Tony Podesta represented the [[Brussels]] based European Centre for Modern Ukraine (ECFMU), a front organization for former Ukrainian President [[Viktor Yanukovych]]. The ECFMU was founded to enhance [[EU]]-Ukrainian relations. The ECFMU is linked with the Ukrainian Party of Regions. Podesta was paid $900,000.<ref>Hosenball, Mark (December 20, 2013). [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-ukraine-lobbying/with-cash-ukraines-political-foes-bring-fight-to-washington-idUSBRE9BJ1B220131220 With cash, Ukraine's political foes bring fight to Washington]. ''Reuters''. Retrieved September 30, 2018.</ref>
The firm went defunct in the later half of 2017 as a result of the [[Mueller probe]] and the firm's unregistered lobbying for the European Centre for Modern Ukraine (ECFMU). Podesta Group did not file as an agent of a foreign power under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).
The firm went defunct in the later half of 2017 as a result of the [[Mueller probe]] and the firm's unregistered lobbying for the European Centre for Modern Ukraine (ECFMU). Podesta Group did not file as an agent of a foreign power under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).
===Greg Craig and the Clinton Foundation===
Greg Craig represented President [[Ronald Reagan]]'s attempted [[assassin]], John Hinckley Jr., and won a verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity. Reagan's press secretary, James Brady, was seriously maimed, crippled for life, and died as a result of his injuries 33 years later. A police officer, [[Secret Service]] agent, and President Reagan were all shot in the attempt. Hinckley remains free today. On January 20, 2009, [[President Barack Obama]] appointed Craig White House Counsel.
On April 11, 2019, [[Greg Craig]], [[Obama]]’s former White House Counsel and a partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, was indicted for lying about and concealing his work in Ukraine. Craig, who reportedly worked closely with Manafort, was paid more than $4 million to produce an “independent” report justifying Ukraine's trial and conviction of the former prime minister, [[Yulia Tymoshenko]]. Notably, Craig's name was not included in the “Black Ledger” leak from Leshchenko and Sytnyk.
The indictment notes that “a wealthy private Ukrainian” was fully funding the report. In a YouTube video, Craig publicly stated that “it was Doug Schoen who brought this project to me, and he told me he was acting on behalf of Victor Pinchuk,<ref>[https://themarketswork.com/2018/03/11/victor-pinchuk-the-clintons-endless-connections/ Victor Pinchuk, the Clintons & Endless Connections], by Jeff Carlson, March 11, 2018.</ref> who was a pro-western, Ukrainian businessman who helped to fund the project.”
“The Firm understood that its work was to be largely funded by Victor Pinchuk,” Skadden wrote in recent FARA filings.
Pinchuk put out a statement on Jan. 21, denying any financial involvement:
“Mr. Pinchuk was not the source of any funds used to pay fees of Skadden in producing their report into the trial and conviction of Yulia Tymoshenko. He was in no way responsible for those costs. Neither Mr. Pinchuk nor companies affiliated with him have ever been a client of Skadden. Mr. Pinchuk and his team had no role in the work done by Skadden, including in the preparation or dissemination of the Skadden report.”
Victor Pinchuk is the founder of Interpipe, a steel pipe manufacturer. He owns Credit Dnipro Bank, several ferroalloy plants and a media empire. He is also married to Elena Pinchuk, the daughter of former Ukrainian President [[Leonid Kuchma]].
Pinchuk has been accused of profiting immensely from the purchase of state-owned assets at severely below-market prices through political favoritism.
Between April 4 and April 12, 2016, Ukrainian Parliamentarian Olga Bielkov had four meetings, with Samuel Charap (International Institute for Strategic Studies), Liz Zentos (National Security Council), Michael Kimmage (State Department), and [[David Kramer]] (McCain Institute).
FARA documents filed by lobbyist Doug Schoen showed that he was paid $40,000 a month by Victor Pinchuk (page 5)–in part to arrange these meetings.
Schoen attempted to arrange another 72 meetings with congressmen and media (page 10). It is unknown how many of these meetings, if any, took place.
Schoen also helped Pinchuk establish ties with the [[Clinton Foundation]]. The ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'' reported on March 19, 2015, how Schoen connected Pinchuk with senior Clinton State Department staffers in order to pressure former Ukrainian President Yanukovych to release Yulia Tymoshenko–a political rival of Yanukovych–from jail. And the relationship between Pinchuk and the Clintons continued. According to the ''Kyiv Post'':
{{quotebox-float|“Clinton and her husband [[Bill Clinton|Bill, the 42nd U.S. president]], have been paid speakers at the annual YES and other Pinchuk events. They describe themselves as friends of Pinchuk, who is known internationally as a businessman and philanthropist.”}}
Although exact numbers are not clear, reports filed by the Clinton Foundation indicate that as much as $25 million of Pinchuk's donations went to the Clinton organization.
Pinchuk also has ties to Serhiy Leshchenko, the Ukrainian member of parliament who leaked the information on Manafort. Leshchenko had been a frequent speaker at the Ukrainian Breakfast, a traditional private event held at Davos, Switzerland and hosted by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation and has also been pictured with Pinchuk at multiple other events.
==Biden-Burisma scandal==
==Biden-Burisma scandal==