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</b></span></font></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“According to Cohen, Trump’s sycophantic praise of the Russian leader during the 2016 campaign began as a way to suck up and ensure access to the oligarch’s money after he lost the election. But he claims Trump came to understand that Putin’s hatred of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, dating to her support for the 2011 protest movement in Russia, could also help Trump amass more power in the United States,” the newspaper reported.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He also gave details on the plans for Trump Tower Russia — and says Ivanka Trump was intimately involved.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Cohen says the Trump Tower plans called for a 120-story building in Red Square, including 30 floors devoted to a five-star hotel with an Ivanka Trump-branded spa and Trump restaurants, and 230 high-end condominiums for Russian oligarchs and leaders,” <em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Post</em> reported. “Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter, who is now a senior White House adviser, even selected the proposed tower’s high-end finishes, Cohen writes.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He also gave salacious details about attending a sex show in Las Vegas.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Cohen details a tawdry 2013 visit to a Las Vegas club, the Act, with Trump and Aras and Emin <b>Agalarov </b>— a Russian father-and-son oligarch duo. Cohen asserts that the group watched a debauched strip show that included one performer who simulated urinating on another performer, who pretended to drink it,” the newspaper reported. “Trump’s reaction to the show, Cohen writes, was ‘disbelief and delight.’”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump also reportedly apartheid-era South Africa, ridiculued his evangelical supporters, and offered shared his thoughts on Cohen’s then-15-year-old.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Look at that piece of *ss,” Trump reportedly said. “I would love some of that.”..? no twt</font></p><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ar<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">as Agalarov, the Russian billionaire who orchestrated the infamous June 2016 Trump Tower meeting with campaign officials, anonymously set up a U.S. shell company a month before the meeting as he prepared to move almost $20 million into the country, </span><em style="word-break: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Guardian</em><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> reports. <b>Agalarov reportedly set up the company alongside an accountant who has had clients accused of money laundering and embezzlement,</b> and the firm has since managed the U.S. finances of other Russians accused of mishandling millions of dollars. Special counsel Robert Mueller is looking into unusual financial activity and whether any of the money involved could have been used to fund Russian meddling in the U.S. presidential election—but Agalarov denies this. Scott Balber, Agalarov’s attorney, said the company was formed for “real-estate transactions.” He said: “Mr. Agalarov has not used the money you referenced—or any other money—to fund any activity relating to the U.S. election."</span></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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The suit alleges that the Trump campaign coordinated with the Russian government and Wikileaks during the 2016 campaign, using cyberattacks to hurt Hillary Clinton and elect Donald Trump. Many Trump associates are named as defendants, including Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, Paul Manafort, George Papadopoulos, Roger Stone and Rick Gates. Additionally, many Russia-linked individuals and entities are named, including Julian Assange,<b> Emin Agalarov, Aras Agalarov, Wikileaks</b>, and the Russian military intelligence service, the GRU. Donald Trump is not named as a defendant.</font></p><div class="links" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 25px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; overflow: hidden;"><a href="https://themoscowproject.org/collusion/dnc-files-lawsuit-against-the-trump-campaign-russian-government-and-wikileaks/" class="learn" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 35px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; touch-action: manipulation; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.45s ease 0s; letter-spacing: 0.02em; font-weight: 600; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Learn More</font></a></div></div><div class="single-row" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 4px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 35px; padding: 0px 0px 35px; background-repeat: no-repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h5 style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">White House Releases List of Russian Oligarchs</font></h5><p class="description" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 27.9px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The White House releases a list of Russian government officials and Russian oligarchs connected to Vladimir Putin. The document, which was compiled by the Treasury Department, carries no official penalties, and listed every senior official within the Kremlin and oligarchs with a net worth of $1 billion or more. Media sources later reveal that the document was copied from several open sources, including Forbes and the English-language Kremlin website.</font></p><div class="links" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 25px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; overflow: hidden;"><a href="https://themoscowproject.org/collusion/white-house-releases-list-russian-oligarchs/" class="learn" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 35px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; touch-action: manipulation; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.45s ease 0s; letter-spacing: 0.02em; font-weight: 600; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Learn More</font></a></div></div><div class="single-row" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 4px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 35px; padding: 0px 0px 35px; background-repeat: no-repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h5 style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More Details of Trump Tower Meeting Revealed</font></h5><p class="description" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 27.9px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The New York Times publishes an email exchange between Goldstone and Donald Trump Jr. setting up the June 9, 2016, meeting in Trump Tower, explicitly identifying the purpose of the meeting as exchanging damaging information about Hillary Clinton from the Russian government.</font></p><div class="links" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 25px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; overflow: hidden;"><a href="https://themoscowproject.org/collusion/details-trump-tower-meeting-revealed/" class="learn" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 35px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; touch-action: manipulation; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.45s ease 0s; letter-spacing: 0.02em; font-weight: 600; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Learn More</font></a></div></div><div class="single-row" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 4px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 35px; padding: 0px 0px 35px; background-repeat: no-repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h5 style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The New York Times Reveals June 9 2016 Trump Tower Meeting</font></h5><p class="description" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 27.9px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The New York Times reports on the existence of the June 9, 2016, meeting in Trump Tower; Trump reportedly dictates Donald Trump Jr.’s misleading initial response to the revelations.</font></p><div class="links" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 25px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; overflow: hidden;"><a href="https://themoscowproject.org/collusion/new-york-times-reveals-june-9-2016-trump-tower-meeting/" class="learn" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 35px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; touch-action: manipulation; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.45s ease 0s; letter-spacing: 0.02em; font-weight: 600; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Learn More</font></a></div></div><div class="single-row" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 4px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 35px; padding: 0px 0px 35px; background-repeat: no-repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h5 style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump Hosts Miss Universe Pageant in Moscow</font></h5><p class="description" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 27.9px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump travels to Moscow for the Miss Universe pageant, where he meets with numerous Russian oligarchs, including Aras Agalarov, to explore future business ventures in Russia. Video and photo evidence place Trump at the Moscow Ritz-Carlton for the filming of Emin Agalarov’s music video during that trip. While in Moscow, Trump meets with several Russian businessmen and oligarchs, including Herman Gref, the CEO of Russia’s biggest state-owned bank, Sberbank. 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text-decoration-line: none;">You Tube video</a> released by a Russian pop singer who is a key figure in the <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/topics/russia-investigation" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">investigations</a> into ties between the Kremlin and the 2016 Trump campaign was a “satire” making fun of “some of the things I’ve been accused of,” the singer said Wednesday.</font></p><p class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" type="text" content="The video — entitled “Got Me Good” featuring a new song by Emin Agalarov — "><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span><a href="" https="https" www.npr.org="www.npr.org" emin-agalarov-trump-connected-russian-pop-singer-trolls-the-world-with-new-video="emin-agalarov-trump-connected-russian-pop-singer-trolls-the-world-with-new-video" rel="" nofollow="nofollow" noopener="noopener" quot="quot" target="" _blank="blank">caused a media stir</a></span> this week because it appears to mock Trump, a onetime business partner of the singer and his billionaire oligarch father, real estate developer Aras Agalarov." data-reactid="16" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The video — entitled “Got Me Good” featuring a new song by Emin Agalarov — <a href="https://www.npr.org/2018/06/26/623585516/emin-agalarov-trump-connected-russian-pop-singer-trolls-the-world-with-new-video" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">caused a media stir</a> this week because it appears to mock Trump, a onetime business partner of the singer and his billionaire oligarch father, real estate developer Aras Agalarov.</font></p><p class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" type="text" content="“I wish you at least could be honest,” Emin Agalarov sings to a Donald Trump look-alike in the video. “I wish you told me the truth.”" data-reactid="17" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-family: Georgia, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I wish you at least could be honest,” Emin Agalarov sings to a Donald Trump look-alike in the video. “I wish you told me the truth.”</font></span></p><p class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" type="text" content="The Agalarov video got particular attention because it appears to reference some of the more sensational, although uncorroborated, allegations about Trump’s 2013 visit to Moscow when he partnered with the Agalarovs to stage the Miss Universe pageant and initiated a deal to build a Trump Tower in the Russian capital." data-reactid="18" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-family: Georgia, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Agalarov video got particular attention because it appears to reference some of the more sensational, although uncorroborated, allegations about Trump’s 2013 visit to Moscow when he partnered with the Agalarovs to stage the Miss Universe pageant and initiated a deal to build a Trump Tower in the Russian capital.</font></p><p class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" type="text" content="At one point in the video, Agalarov can be seen leading a parade of scantily clad women into a hotel suite so they can dance on a bed while Trump watches — evoking the unproven allegation in the dossier by former British spy Christopher Steele that Kremlin officials had a compromising tape taken during that trip of Trump in his room with prostitutes." data-reactid="19" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-family: Georgia, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At one point in the video, Agalarov can be seen leading a parade of scantily clad women into a hotel suite so they can dance on a bed while Trump watches — evoking the unproven allegation in the dossier by former British spy Christopher Steele that Kremlin officials had a compromising tape taken during that trip of Trump in his room with prostitutes.</font></p><p class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" type="text" content="Look-alike actors portray Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Hillary Clinton and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, mysteriously exchanging envelopes and briefcases, throwing back shots of vodka and playing poker." data-reactid="20" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-family: Georgia, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Look-alike actors portray Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Hillary Clinton and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, mysteriously exchanging envelopes and briefcases, throwing back shots of vodka and playing poker.</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">mojo</font><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Known in Russia as the “fertilizer king,” this billionaire oligarch bought a Palm Beach mansion from Trump in 2008 for $95 million—more than twice what Trump paid for it in the mid-2000s. It was a surprisingly high price, given Florida’s crashing real estate market and an appraisal for much less. At least twice during the campaign, Rybolovlev’s plane was in the same location as Trump’s, fueling speculation of deeper ties.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">For years, this Ukrainian natural-gas titan cut deals with Russia’s state-owned gas company, Gazprom. Putin’s administration sold him Russian gas at a steep discount, and Firtash resold it in Ukraine, reinvesting some of the profits into electing pro-Putin politicians, including Viktor Yanukovych. In 2008, Firtash partnered with Manafort on an $885 million deal to buy and redo a New York hotel. The deal fell apart, but a few years later Firtash and Manafort were together again—this time named in a lawsuit alleging that Firtash laundered money through a New York investment fund established with Manafort’s help to send back to Ukraine for political use. (The case was dismissed in 2015.) Since 2013, the United States has sought to extradite Firtash from Austria to face bribery charges in an unrelated case.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Oleg Deripaska</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">This billionaire aluminum magnate was denied entry to the United States in the mid-1990s because of suspected ties to the Russian Mafia. A few years later, Manafort helped Deripaska try to secure a visa to come to the United States. In 2006, Deripaska reportedly hired Manafort for a $10 million annual contract; Manafort reportedly pitched Deripaska on a plan to bolster Putin’s image in the United States and elsewhere. In 2014, Deripaska sued Manafort for accepting a $19 million investment and then failing to account for the funds. (The suit is pending.)</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Aras Agalarov</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">This billionaire’s real estate company, Crocus Group, has secured multiple contracts from the Kremlin, and Agalarov personally received a medal of honor from Putin. In 2013, Agalarov partnered with Trump to bring the Miss Universe pageant to Moscow, where it was hosted at one of his lavish properties. The day before the pageant, Agalarov helped organize a meeting for Trump with more than a dozen of Russia’s top moguls. Agalarov claims he and Trump made a deal to build a Trump Tower in Moscow following the pageant, a venture that never materialized.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Emin Agalarov</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Trump starred in a 2013 music video with this middling Russian pop star (the son of Aras Agalarov). It was shot on the morning of the Miss Universe pageant in Moscow, where Emin performed two numbers. In a March 2017 interview, Emin described an ongoing relationship—including “messages” and a handwritten note—with the Trump family that continued after Trump’s inauguration. “Now that he ran and was elected, he does not forget his friends,” Emin said.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Viktor Vekselberg</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The Ukrainian oil baron with past ties to the Kremlin is reportedly worth $12.8 billion. Through his company Renova, he holds a 5.5 percent stake in the Bank of Cyprus, where Wilbur Ross served as vice chairman of the board until his confirmation as US commerce secretary in March.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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