Trump Commutes 27 Year Prison Sentence for Convicted Money Launderer

Russia's Deripaska Faces Western Investigations - WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB122359420472121077
Oct 10, 2008 - ..Attorney General Michael Mukasey, citing Russia and Central Asian nations, said that underworld figures' growing clout in energy and strategic-materials.. Glenn R. Simpson at glenn.simpson@wsj.com and..

House Ex-Staffer Caught in Probe - WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB121306664542359865
Jun 10, 2008 - Attorney General Michael Mukasey in April said the government has reconvened its long-dormant federal Organized Crime Council to combat what he called a new ... Write to ..Glenn R. Simpson at glenn.simpson@wsj.com ..

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump...busted-why-the-feds-settled-the-prevezon-case
Trump's Latest Russia Conspiracy Busted—Why the Feds Settled..
Harry Siegel 07.17.17
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Prevezon was represented at that appeal by Michael Mukasey, the former U.S. attorney general whose son, Marc, has been rumored as a potential replacement for Bharara in the SDNY.

(As if this wasn’t complicated enough: Michael Mukasey is also currently working along with Marc’s law partner, Rudy Giuliani, for Reza Zarrab, the Turk close with that country’s leadership charged by Bharara with busting Iran sanctions. The pair have told the judge in that case that they were retained to find an extrajudicial resolution—...—to get their client off the hook.)

“The SDNY refused when Veselnitskaya wanted that renewal” last January, the official said. “At the time she met with Donald Trump, Jr., she was not here on its authority.”

The SDNY also tried to use its authority to remove her translator, Samochornov, who later accompanied her to the Trump Tower meeting, from the Prevezon case, telling the judge that he was “really a member of the defense team,” ....

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-c...eting-threatens-to-break-a-deal-with-the-feds
Katie Zavadski 11.09.17
...The funds frozen ..belong to AFI Europe, a part of billionaire investor Lev Leviev’s Africa Israel Investments group. The Soviet-born diamond and real estate tycoon was who sold Jared Kushner,..floors in the old New York Times building in 2015. This transaction is reportedly being reviewed by special counsel Robert Mueller..

Prevezon bought a 30 percent stake in four Dutch AFI companies in 2008. At the time, the company was owned on paper by a Russian student, who sold a 100 percent stake in Prevezon to Denis Katsyv later that year for just $50,000, according to prosecutors. ..

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https://www.emptywheel.net/2018/01/10/the-misrepresentations-of-the-simpson-veselnitskaya-meetings/
The Misrepresentations of the Simpson-Veselnitskaya Meetings
January 10, 2018
..while it supports that Simpson saw Veselnitskaya at the court hearing (meaning Veselnitskaya is wrong on that point), it doesn’t support that she came from or returned to a meeting with Simpson directly before and after the Trump Tower meeting. Instead, it seems to support the case that Veselnitskaya and Simpson saw each other three days in succession because the Prevezon hearing was the stated purpose of her visit to the US. And Simpson’s claim that linguistic barriers prevented them from chatting that much seems credible.

..why the claim that Veselnitskaya had met with Simpson got leaked to Fox..

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https://www.richardsilverstein.com/...-sarandon-and-alan-dershowitz-have-in-common/
What Do Susan Sarandon, Alan Dershowitz and the Russian Mob Have in Common?
December 27, 2007 By Richard Silverstein
Susan Sarandon, Denise Rich..
...Lev Leviev is not a member of the Russian mob. He’s way beyond that..

..Recently, Leviev decided to expand his diamond and real estate business to New York, where he owns property worth well over $1 billion including the Plaza Hotel and New York Times building ($525 million). The store opening and accompanying protest was covered by The Forward and JTA,..

As the photo above indicates, Leviev is linked with former Russian mobster and now oligarch, Roman Abramovich in the diamond business. ..Leviev, not to be outdone, also owns an Israeli football club. According to Haaretz, Leviev and Abramovich are among the two largest donors to Elad, whose goal is the “Judaize” East Jerusalem by buying up Arab property and transferring it to Jewish ownership..

...As for Dershowitz, ever the entertaining clown, Dersh must’ve seen the brouhaha and decided he needed to get a slice of Sarandon’s PR. So he went down to the Leviev showroom and came out swinging his shopping bag..he said that he opposed Israeli settlements. How quickly they forget. After watching Dershowitz’s pathetic primping performance in this video...

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Mycroft said:

Maybe Trump was just trying to suck up to the Democrats.

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In Bukhara, 10,000 Jewish Graves but Just 150 Jews - The New York ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/07/world/asia/uzbekistan-bukhara-jews.html
Apr 7, 2018 - Today, many Jews now living in Queens, Israel and elsewhere, no matter whether they have any direct connection with Bukhara, often consider themselves “Bukharian Jews.” Among them is Lev Leviev, an Israeli billionaire and supporter of the Chabad movement who was born in Samarkand, an Uzbek city ...

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9/15/06 - Chabad of the Five Towns
www.chabadfivetowns.com › ... › Opportunities › E-Newsletter Archives › 2006
We thank Mr. & Mrs. David & Tammy Friedman for co-sponsoring this campaign in memory of David's father, Rabbi Morris Friedman, R' Shmuel Moshe B”R Yechiel Dov HaKohen, OB"M. Rabbi Friedman was known for his ... Your Personal Roadmap to Meaningful Holidays, for men and women, with Rabbi Zalman Wolowik.

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[h=3]Meet the Mogul: Lev Leviev -- New York Magazine[/h]nymag.com/news/intelligencer/31549/

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Oct 24, 2007 - He now owns huge swaths of Brooklyn and a growing number of Manhattan trophies—and he's just getting started. “We are going to expand dramatically in the next year,” says Rotem Rosen, the chief of the American branch of Leviev's holding company, Africa-Israel. Here's everything you need to know ...

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Rosen met with Michael Cohen on Friday and Rahm Emmanuel's brother, (net worth, $200 million) two days later....really?
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/The-Lounge-April-172018-549998
The Lounge: April 17,2018
By MICHAL GALANTI

/ April 16, 2018 21:16
3. Rotem Rosen
Rotem Rosen, an Israeli real estate mogul in New York, was invited last Sunday by his friend, Ari Emanuel, who’s known as the ‘king’ of American show business and co-CEO of William Morris Endeavor (WME), to the UFC final fight in New York. Ari also happens to be the brother of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, a former senior Obama administration official.

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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jeff-berg-new-agency-icm-426189
Jeff Berg Speaks: Plans for New Agency, What Really Happened at ICM (Exclusive)
5:38 PM PST 3/5/2013
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Berg, 65, told nearly no one about the trip, certainly none of the partners at the agency he had been with since its formation in 1975 and had headed for about three decades before being deposed in a May takeover orchestrated by 28 agents at the company. After all, he was about to discuss the type of life-altering plan that had not been successfully realized since four of his own underlings, led by Ari Emanuel, exited ICM to form Endeavor in March 1995 -- after being caught by a security guard as they smuggled out files in the middle of the night...
....His new deal -- put together by Berg's personal attorney, Ken Ziffren, and attorney Josh Grode -- has ruffled the feathers of his former ICM colleagues, who learned about it the hard way: when news leaked Oct. 26, while he still was working from his corner office at ICM....

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Who are the mystery men photographed sharing cigars with Michael Cohen?
Who are the mystery men photographed sharing cigars with Michael Cohen? - ABC News
By Ali Dukakis
Lucien Bruggeman
Apr 18, 2018

......MRR Development did not respond to ABC News’ request for comment on this story. ABC was not able to contact Rosen on Monday after repeated attempts to contact him at phone numbers attributed to him. ABC News was not able to reach Rotonda at multiple phone numbers attributed to him, his former office, and his apartment on Monday either.
The two men have surfaced repeatedly on the periphery of Donald Trump’s social and business circles and have been recurring characters in the cast that surrounded the future president before he moved to the White House.
In 2007, Rosen, an Israeli-American businessman, married the daughter of Alex Sapir, who developed the Trump SoHo building in Manhattan, at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, according to reports from the time. A year later, an invitation to their son’s bris ceremony included Donald Trump and Jared Kushner on the guest list.
In 2013, Rosen attended the infamous Miss Universe Pageant in Moscow. A photograph taken at the pageant shows Rosen alongside Trump.

A real estate developer by trade, Rosen reportedly took part in discussions about breaking ground on a Trump Tower in Moscow, according to various news outlets. ABC News has reported that conversations about a Trump Tower in Moscow did take place, but that the project never moved beyond preliminary talks.
Rosen also worked for the American branch of a holdings firm called Africa Israel Investments Ltd., a company owned by Israeli diamond mogul Lev Leviev, who has business ties with Jared Kushner and personal ties with Russian President Vladimir Putin. In 2007, Leviev told The New York Times that he considers Putin a “true friend”. In 2015, Kushner’s family company, Kuchner Cos., purchased part of the old New York Times building from Leviev’s firm, Africa Israel.
Jerry Rotonda is a former Deutsche Bank executive who served as CFO for the company’s wealth management division.
Though it is unclear whether Rotonda had any direct involvement in business deals with Trump, Deutsche Bank has backed Trump development projects. Deutsche Bank lent the Trump Organization more than $300 million for real estate transactions before Trump became president, ABC News has previously reported. The bank helped finance a number of Trump’s high-profile developments, including the renovation of the Old Post Office in Washington, the purchase of the Doral golf course in Florida and the construction of an office building in Chicago.
In December of 2017, ABC News reported that the special counsel Robert Mueller had sent a subpoena to Deutsche seeking records.

Mueller issues subpoena to Deutsche Bank in Russia probe

“Deutsche Bank takes its legal obligations seriously and remains committed to cooperating with authorized investigations into this matter,” a company statement said at the time. Trump’s legal team disputed reports the subpoena is related to the president.
According to public records and confirmed by a source close to him, Rotonda lives in Trump World Tower in Manhattan – where Michael Cohen has served on the Board of Directors. ...

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