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Bethere
03-23-2017, 12:33 AM
It just gets deeper and deeper.


https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/03/paul-manafort-tried-help-russian-oligarch-oleg-deripaska-suspected-mob-ties-gain-us&ved=0ahUKEwjct9aM9OvSAhWF64MKHfbyABQQqOcBCBowAA&usg=AFQjCNGzpYKfeLqKooFTClb4XakK1OFB9wManFort's relationship with Deripaska began at least several years before they inked this contract when the Russian oligarch was banned from entering the United States due to his suspected connections to Russian organized crime. In the early 2000s, the aluminum magnate enlisted Manafort, a veteran lobbyist and fixer with a reputation (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/04/13/top-trump-aide-led-the-torturers-lobby.html) for representing foreign despots and thugs, to help him secure a visa so he could travel to the United States, according to a source with knowledge of the arrangement,In the late 1990s, the US State Department had refused to allow Deripaska (reportedly one of the richest men in Russia) visit the United States. As the Guardian reported (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/oct/31/oleg-deripaska-us-visa-rusal) in 2008:
A senior former State Department official said US officials who considered Deripaska's case in 1998 believed he was associated with several Russians involved in organised crime, including Anton Malevsky, head of the notorious Ismailovskaya Brotherhood. Others believed by the US authorities to be his associates were involved in the so-called Aluminium Wars during the mid-1990s which resulted in dozens of killings. Deripaska has always strenuously denied any links to organised crime.The State Department official said: "There are four grounds that are relevant in Deripaska's case. Number three is, does this person have criminal associations and relationships? That's the one that applied to Deripaska."