1. A paragrahp here is devoted to "Deposits by Columbus Nova, LLC". For a total of $416,665. EACH deposit was $83,333. Remember Columbus Nova? it's an investment management firm controlled by RENOVA Group, owned by? Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg. A KNOWN Putin friend. https://twitter.com/MikeScarcella/status/1131186648618868736
2. The following paragraph, though, is more damning. The search warrant connects the deposits of money to Cohen having handed Flynn the infamous "peace plan" for Russia and Ukraine, after Ukrainian MP Artemenko met with Cohen to discuss it, courtesy of Sater organizing dinner.
3. In case you have forgotten, Cohen has a brother whose father in law was directly involved in writing this "peace deal" that was of course to establish peace between Ukraine and Russia IN EXCHANGE FOR LIFTING SANCTIONS. Naturally the plan was a joke and an insult to Ukraine.
4. The above-mentioned father-in-law then died in circumstances that were never really clear (as usual), but regardless. The whole deal was exposed by a NYT article and Artemenko did an interview on CNN explaining how he had dinner with Cohen in NY etc.
5. Long story short, this is the infamous peace deal that Cohen left on Flynn's desk at the WH, in a sealed envelope. Flynn was STILL the NSA at that point. He was then forced to resign, and couldn't act on it. Point here? BOTH Cohen AND Flynn flipped. Mueller has it all.
6. The fact Mueller knew and then handed it to SDNY, means that SDNY ALSO has all of this . Even better, the SDNY search warrant says the US "Continues" to investigate if any of the financial dealings were connected to Cohen's distribution of the peace deal. Bloop!
7. This makes Cohen a DIRECT witness of possible CONSPIRACY WITH RUSSIA in an investigation that is still ongoing and that SDNY is in charge of. Meaning that SDNY AND NY STATE, too, as some of the crimes are being investigated by NY State as well, may hold a key to "collusion".
8. And there's good ole Felix Sater as well who DID testify and who is supposed to testify to Congress, too. He can confirm this. Mind you, it does NOT matter whether Russia succeeded in having sanctions lifted, it matters that Cohen took money as a TRUMP REP and involved the WH.
9. If Cohen testified that he took that money bc Trump asked him to do this job, then that is conspiracy on Trump's part, with Russia, even worse, it's taking money in order to shape foreign policy. It's not called treason nowadays but you get the picture.
10. This is just the part relating to Cohen's GMAIL account (BTW peeps, if you redact, make sure you do it everywhere, bc we can read both the email AND the phone number to reach Cohen at in the search warrant).
11. SDNY ordered Google to preserve all docs and correspondence and to hand over everything, and I mean EVERYTHING including docs Cohen may have submitted to open the account. Mueller then told them "and you better not breathe a WORD of this, ever". In legalese, but he did.
12. And I did not make a mistake here, this was signed by MUELLER on July 18, 2017. So, as we knew and as press had correctly reported, the acquisition of Cohen emails and other material happened long before the raid SDNY carried out.
13. And no for the TWIST as I delve into the Trump Org email account warrant... SOOO on the day of the presidential election (on or about Nov 8, 2016), "a telephone registered to COhen exchanged the first in a series of text messages with? THE CEO OF COLUMBUS NOVA LLC.
14. That would be ANDREW INTRATER, whose name has appeared in the Russia investigation so many times, I have lost count, mainly bc he manages Vekselberg's interests in the US AND bc it's crystal clear he is being investigated for funneling RU money to Trump, constantly.
15. It gets better. In about EIGHT months (From Nov 8, 2016 to July 14, 2017) telephone records show OVER 230 PHONE CALLS and 950 TEXT MESSAGES between Cohen's cellular phone and Intrater. Phone records show NO such texts/calls between them PRIOR to Nov. 8, 2016. REALLY!
16. That is an average of almost a phone call per day AND MULTIPLE text messages per day. 😂😂😂And NONE of that happened prior to the election, as in ever. (BTW... this means they checked phone records thoroughly for quite a long time span). ALL coincidence, right?😂😂 Amazing.
17. To make matters more interesting, the payments to Cohen mentioned before in the thread came from a SECOND account in the name of RENOVA US MANAGEMENT LLC. Columbus Nova received the money from RENOVA (so DIRECTLY from Vekselberg) and then wired it to Cohen.
18. This was done to make it appear like Columbus Nova was paying Cohen when RENOVA was actually paying. In fact: "The govt continues to investigate why the funds used to pay Cohen have been wired through this CN account as opposed to coming directly from the Renova US account. "
19. I don't think I need to explain why Vekselberg, a Russian oligarch with direct ties to Putin, tried to make it appear like he wasn't paying Cohen, but his company in the US was (Does he think Mueller, SDNY et al are this stupid? just LOL).
20. This warrant too mentions the entire Ukraine "peace deal" business, and in the same fashion points out that Cohen delivered the plan to Flynn at the WH after having had dinner with Trump. Plan aimed at lifting RU sanctions that Cohen may have been paid for by Vekselberg.
21. This is why Cohen's testimony is essential, bc if he told investigators that he indeed received the money bc of the "peace plan" while being Trump's personal attorney, and bc Trump wanted the job done, Trump is directly implicated. This is RU paying to lift sanctions.
22. We don't know yet what Cohen told investigators, either in Congress or at the FBI, about this matter.Pretty sure if this was nothing, it would have been unsealed long ago. This didn't come up during Cohen's hearing, bc this warrant was still sealed.
23. I understand this is an extremely delicate and dangerous type of investigation, bc we're talking about being paid by Russians to change foreign policy and lift sanctions, which is a gigantic crime, but we need to be told as much about Cohen's testimony on this as possible.
24. Between Jan 5 and Feb 20 2017, when the whole Ukraine peace deal business was ongoing, Cohen and Sater exchanged approximately TWENTY calls. On Jan, 11, 2017 "a call was exchanged between a cellular telephone registered to Cohen and a telephone registered to Flynn". Bloop!
25. Yet again, the warrant says the US "continues to investigate if any of the payments or financial relationships described above, or other relationships described further below, were connected to Cohen's involvement in the distribution of a plan to lift Russian sanctions."
26. PLS BEAR IN MIND ALL THIS IS WITH SDNY NOW, as they conducted the raid and acquired all the Cohen records. Meaning this is NOT over by a long shot and that everything regarding Columbus Nova, Renova, Vekselberg etc is still in play. Mueller is no dummy.
27. It is important to bear in mind , also, that we don't know what Cohen told the FBI about this. I don't know if he told them it was Trump ordering him to do certain things or not, so everything depends on that. Regardless, NY STATE is investigating this, too, so all is open.
28. The Trump inaugural committee is involved in this as well, and that's being investigated at a STATE level in NY as well, bc of Tom Barrack. There's NOTHING Trump/Barr can do about state probes, and that's why NY yesterday CLOSED the "double jeopardy loophole".
29. Next in NY, they'll bring to a vote the proposal to make TRUMP'S TAXES that NY has, available to Congress, should Congress request them. So: MARCH (bc you need to) to support justice and the rule of law and know those who are working on this NEED your support. /END
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