Mukasey, Trump Tower June 9 2016, Prevezon, and Erdogan Reza Zarrab

By Nicole Hong
June 1, 2017 2:02 p.m. ET


A federal judge on Thursday ruled that former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey can continue to act as lawyers for a Turkish businessman jailed in the U.S., despite potential conflicts of interest in the case.

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KATIE ZAVADSKI
11.29.17 1:02 PM ET


Rudy Giuliani and Michael Mukasey tried to broker a prisoner exchange between the United States and Turkey to free their Turkish client, Reza Zarrab, he testified in Manhattan federal court Wednesday.

Zarrab said on the stand he hired lawyers to attempt to negotiate a prisoner exchange between the U.S. and Turkey “within the legal limits,” but that they were unsuccessful. He did not name the attorneys, but Giuliani and Mukasey were previously identified as the lawyers working to strike a diplomatic deal for Zarrab.

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"That was the same day that Michael Mukasey, who served as attorney general under George W. Bush, appeared before a panel of three judges on the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to argue that Prevezon—the Kremlin-tied company then charged with hiding a fraction of a $230 million Russian tax scheme in Manhattan luxury real estate—should be allowed to keep a lawyer it had effectively poached from the other side.

Veselnitskaya, who represented the company’s owner as it prepared to defend itself at trial, did not register an official appearance with the appeals court, and the SDNY declined to comment on her presence there.

A recording of the proceeding, obtained by The Daily Beast, makes clear that both of her stops in Manhattan that day

—in court and then in Trump Tower—

were part of the same aggressive Kremlin campaign to try and overturn the Magnitsky Act, which infuriated President Vladimir Putin by imposing sanctions on 44 prominent Russians."



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