05-10-2018, 12:42 PM
The documents released by Avenatti on Tuesday publicly tie the Cohen investigation to the Russia Interference investigation for the first time through Cohen's LLC shell company's financial activity.
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Special investigator Mueller seems to have known all about it months ago, however. The companies that wired money into Cohen's shell company have all confirmed that they were questioned by the Mueller team previously.
Vekselberg is the Russian oligarch whose plane was recently stopped by Mueller's team when it landed in the U.S. He is now sanctioned.
He has a net worth of about $15.5 billion, making him the fifth-richest person in Russia, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. In addition to controlling Renova (the Russian parent company of Columba Nova, an investment firm run out of Seattle by Vekselberg's cousin Andrew Intrater) Vekselberg heads Skolkovo, a tech incubator financed by the Russian government that’s often touted as being the Kremlin’s answer to Silicon Valley.
Lots more detail:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/09/us/po...v=top-news
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/...yond-cohen
Special investigator Mueller seems to have known all about it months ago, however. The companies that wired money into Cohen's shell company have all confirmed that they were questioned by the Mueller team previously.
Vekselberg is the Russian oligarch whose plane was recently stopped by Mueller's team when it landed in the U.S. He is now sanctioned.
He has a net worth of about $15.5 billion, making him the fifth-richest person in Russia, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. In addition to controlling Renova (the Russian parent company of Columba Nova, an investment firm run out of Seattle by Vekselberg's cousin Andrew Intrater) Vekselberg heads Skolkovo, a tech incubator financed by the Russian government that’s often touted as being the Kremlin’s answer to Silicon Valley.
Lots more detail:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/09/us/po...v=top-news
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/...yond-cohen