I posted many Michael Cohen / Trump Russia involvements before 2016
Here’s are my notes—

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔹" title="Small blue diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small blue diamond">Cohen is a childhood friend of Felix Sater
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔸" title="Small orange diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small orange diamond">Sater’s father was in the Mogilevich organized crime syndicate-Russia’s largest and most dangerous mob boss

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https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔹" title="Small blue diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small blue diamond">Cohen’s uncle, Morton Levine’s social club, El Carib, was the headquarters of Russian organized crime in the U.S.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔸" title="Small orange diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small orange diamond">Until the election, Cohen owned a stake in El Carib
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔹" title="Small blue diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small blue diamond">Cohen married a Ukrainian immigrant whose father got him into the taxi business

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https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔸" title="Small orange diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small orange diamond">Cohen’s father in law had at least one conviction of money laundering
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔹" title="Small blue diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small blue diamond">Cohen was a personal injury lawyer with mostly Ukrainian clients
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔸" title="Small orange diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small orange diamond">Cohen went from personal injury lawyer with mostly Ukrainian clients to the owner of a Moscow cab company

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https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔸" title="Small orange diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small orange diamond">Cohen was in a casino boat business with mobsters-to Trump real estate investor-money launderer-Trump’s personal lawyer
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔹" title="Small blue diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small blue diamond">”Fima Shusterman, Cohen’s father-in-law was a silent business partner with Trump, and a conduit for Russian investors in Trump properties

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https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔹" title="Small blue diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small blue diamond">Shusterman, who owned at least four New York taxi companies and set his son-in-law up in the yellow cab business
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔸" title="Small orange diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small orange diamond">Cohen ran 260 yellow cabs with his Ukrainian-born partner, the "taxi king" Simon Garber
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔹" title="Small blue diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small blue diamond">Cohen& #39;s Shusterman in-laws Shusterman bought 3 units in Trump Tower

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https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔸" title="Small orange diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small orange diamond">Cohen& #39;s father-in-law was funneling money into Trump ventures according to informants or NY Russian Mafiya “Red Star”
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔹" title="Small blue diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small blue diamond">Cohen was one of several attorneys who helped money launderers purchase apartments in a Trump Tower development in Sunny Isles Beach

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https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔸" title="Small orange diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small orange diamond">Cohen joined the Trump Organization around the time that the second Sunny Isles tower was being built
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔹" title="Small blue diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small blue diamond">Cohen invested $1.5 million in a short-lived Miami-based casino boat venture run by his two Ukrainian business partners, Arkady Vaygensberg and Leonid Tatarchuk

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https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔹" title="Small blue diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small blue diamond">Cohen’s casino boat business become the subject of a large fraud investigation but was bailed out by Trump

Cohen and Felix Sater—
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https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔸" title="Small orange diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small orange diamond">During Trump& #39;s campaign Sater was shopping a deal to build a Trump World Tower in Moscow
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔹" title="Small blue diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small blue diamond">Between Sept 2015 and Jan 2016, Sater tried to broker a deal for Moscow’s IC Expert Investment Company
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔸" title="Small orange diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small orange diamond"> Sater worked for IC Expert& #39;s owner, Andrei Rozov, after he left Bayrock

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https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔸" title="Small orange diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small orange diamond">Trump signed a letter of intent in October with IC Expert Investment for a Moscow hotel-condo with the option for a "Spa by Ivanka Trump
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔹" title="Small blue diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small blue diamond">VTB, a Russian bank subject to U.S. sanctions was providing financing for Trump Tower Moscow

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https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔹" title="Small blue diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small blue diamond">Sater& #39;s contact at the Trump Organization was his old friend, Trump& #39;s lawyer, Michael Cohen
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔸" title="Small orange diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small orange diamond">Shortly after Trump took office, Sater teamed up with Cohen to submit a Ukrainian peace plan to then national security advisor Michael Flynn

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https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔸" title="Small orange diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small orange diamond">Sater, Cohen, Flynn’s “Peace Plan” would open the door to lifting sanctions on Russia and subsequently VTB Bank (financing Trump Tower i.e. Moscow Project)

Sater and Bayrock—

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https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔹" title="Small blue diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small blue diamond">Sater joined Bayrock, a real estate development company run by FSU (former Soviet Union) emigres in Trump Tower
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔸" title="Small orange diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small orange diamond">Sater began working directly with Donald Trump
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔹" title="Small blue diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small blue diamond">Sater and Bayrock were supplying Trump with income when Trump’s business were failing

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https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔹" title="Small blue diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small blue diamond">Michael Cohen’s contacts with Ukraine/Russia
Felix Sater
Paul Manafort
Michael Flynn
Steve Bannon
Sebastian Gorka
Steven Miller
Dmitry Peskov
Simon Garber
Evgeny Friedman
Leonid Tatarchuk
Arkady Vaygensberg
Ukrainian Capital Partners
Phillips Nizer
Bryan Cohen (brother)

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Cont’d
Cohen’s Russia Ukraine contact involvements

-Both Michael and Bryan’s wives are Ukrainian
-Grain Alliance (Ukrainian agriculture)
-Victor Topolov (money launderer)
-Semion Mogilevich-mobster
-Vyacheslav Ivankov-mobster
-Alex Oronov

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More—

-Oleg Deripaska
-Dmytro Firtash-gangster
-Tevfik Arif
-Aras Agalarov
-Andrii V. Artemenko
-J. D. Gordon

*J.D. Gordon, platform chairman, met with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak during the convention

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Tidbit
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔸" title="Small orange diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small orange diamond">Lawmaker Andriy Artemenko who held secret & #39;peace plan& #39; meeting with Cohen, Sater, and Flynn has been stripped of his Ukrainian citizenship

https://amp.businessinsider.com/andrey-artemenko-michael-cohen-trump-ukraine-2017-5

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Cohen—
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔸" title="Small orange diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small orange diamond">Michael Cohen incorporated two entities: Ukrainian Capital Partners LP and Ukrainian Capital Growth Fund Corp
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔹" title="Small blue diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small blue diamond">By the time Cohen entered Trump’s employ, Cohen, his relatives and partners had already purchased 11 Trump properties

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https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔹" title="Small blue diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small blue diamond">In addition to the Trump units, Cohen owns entire buildings around New York City
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔸" title="Small orange diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small orange diamond">In 2015, while working for Trump, he bought a $58 million apartment building on Manhattan’s Upper East Side

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Cohen’s brother, brother’s father-in-law—

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔸" title="Small orange diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small orange diamond">Cohen’s brother’s father-in-law is tied to Andrii Artemenko through business
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔹" title="Small blue diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small blue diamond">Artemenko is/was closely tied to Topolov, the allegedly money-laundering Ukrainian politician in business with Oronov, Bryan Cohen’s father-in-law

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https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔹" title="Small blue diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small blue diamond">Viktor Topolov is a wealthy Ukrainian closely associated with figures the FBI has identified as “well known” members of the Russian and Ukrainian underworld
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔸" title="Small orange diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small orange diamond"> Topolov employed a mob enforcer closely associated with Mogilevich, Russia’s most powerful mob boss

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https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔹" title="Small blue diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small blue diamond">Alex Oronov is Ukrainian billionaire businessman was Michael Cohen’s brother’s father-in-law
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔸" title="Small orange diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small orange diamond">Oronov died unexpectedly March 2017

https://www.cre8noh8.org/tag/donald-trump-jr/

https://www.cre8noh8.org/tag/donal... href=" https://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/03/06/how-did-alex-oronov-die-and-why-does-it-matter/

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https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔹" title="Small blue diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small blue diamond">Oronov set up a Jan 2017 meeting between Cohen and Russian officials to discuss “peace plan” between Russia and Ukraine that would have formalized Putin’s control over Crimea
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔸" title="Small orange diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small orange diamond">The Peace Plan was hand-delivered to Michael Flynn prior to his forced resignation

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https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔸" title="Small orange diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small orange diamond">The “peace plan” meeting brought together Mr Artemenko, Mr Cohen and Felix Sater—American-Russian long-time business associate of Mr Trump who is reported to have ties to the Russian mafia
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔹" title="Small blue diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small blue diamond">Artemenko, Cohen, and Felix Sater met at the Loews Hotel, NYC late January 2017

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https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔹" title="Small blue diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small blue diamond">Artemenko claimed to have evidence — “names of companies, wire transfers” — showing corruption by the Ukrainian president, Petro O. Poroshenko, that could help oust him
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔸" title="Small orange diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small orange diamond">The Peace Plan would also relieve sanctions against Russia’s VEB Bank financing Trump Moscow Project

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https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔹" title="Small blue diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small blue diamond">Sergey Gorkov of VEB Bank met at least once with Kushner and Sergey Kislyak about sanctions
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔸" title="Small orange diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small orange diamond">VneshEconomBank Russian government-owned has been under U.S. sanctions since July 2014
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔹" title="Small blue diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small blue diamond">Note-Gorkov has been ousted from VEB
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔸" title="Small orange diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small orange diamond">Kislyak also gone

https://amp.ft.com/content/4192386c-5f43-11e8-9334-2218e7146b04

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Cohen and Sater—
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔹" title="Small blue diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small blue diamond">Cohen and Sater are childhood acquaintances who entered the Trump orbit at the same time, circa 2000-2001
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔸" title="Small orange diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small orange diamond">Cohen made an extraordinary string of Trump property purchases
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔹" title="Small blue diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small blue diamond">Sater moved into business in Trump Tower

https://whowhatwhy.org/2017/09/18/spotlight-michael-cohen-trumps-mysterious-lawyer-deep-ukraine-ties/

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https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔹" title="Small blue diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small blue diamond">Felix Sater—Trump’s associate and Cohen’s close partner in the Trump Moscow Project and Peace Plan to relieve Russia sanctions so the project can go forward Trump associate received more than $21M in Kazakh oligarchs& #39; money laundering scheme

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/trump-associate-received-21m-alleged-oligarch-scheme-article-1.3953189

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https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔹" title="Small blue diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small blue diamond">2005 Sater, appears as Trump’s Russian agent
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔸" title="Small orange diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small orange diamond">Sater is a childhood friend of Cohen
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔹" title="Small blue diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small blue diamond">In 2006, Sater traveled to Moscow again with Donald Jr. and Ivanka
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔸" title="Small orange diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small orange diamond">Sater arranged for Ivanka to sit in Putin’s private chair at his desk and office in the Kremlin https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-putin-chair-ivanka-russia-email-felix-sater-sitting-deal-private-seat-a7918566.html?amp">https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl...
Sater, Cohen, Trump, Sergei Millian, and the Russian American Chamber of Commerce—

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔸" title="Small orange diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small orange diamond">Sater worked for Bayrock
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔹" title="Small blue diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small blue diamond">Trump invited Bayrock’s Siarhei Kukuts aka Sergei Millian to a horse race in Miami
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔸" title="Small orange diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small orange diamond">In 2006, Millian founded the Russian-American Chamber of Commerce (RACC)

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https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔹" title="Small blue diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small blue diamond">In 2009, RACC appealed to the US Congress “to foster necessary political changes to produce a healthier economic environment” and to grant permanent normal trade relations status to Russia
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔸" title="Small orange diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small orange diamond"> Millian said, “we (Trump and Millian) met at his office in New York

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“We (Trump and Millian) met at his office in New York, where he introduced me to his right-hand man—Michael Cohen. He is Trump’s main lawyer, all contracts go through him”

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