Meridian, FBI, Trump Tower 2016, Samochornov

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-28/translator-from-trump-tower-meeting-is-said-to-meet-house-panel

"Samochornov lists himself on his LinkedIn page as having been a project manager at the Meridian International Center, a public diplomacy nonprofit that worked with State Department exchange programs. He also describes himself as a contractor running a company co-owned by professional interpreters that offers interpreting and conference services.

"We are professionally trained conference interpreters. All three of us have interpreted for the UN, the IMF, the World Bank, the US Department of State, many corporate clients in virtually all industries, not-for-profit organizations and labor unions," his page states. Some news reports have said he also has done translating work for the FBI."

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"https://www.thedailybeast.com/man-who-joined-russians-in-trump-meeting-just-an-interpreter-says-mother-in-law

"Samochornov, an American citizen, has worked as a translator for Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Russian lawyer who led the meeting with Donald Trump Jr. on June 9, 2016.

Samochornov translated for Veselnitskaya while she represented a Russian defendant in a money-laundering case in federal court last year and accompanied her to Belgium to promote a film critical of a U.S. anti-money laundering law."