Somehow, the NY Times can't come up with a photo of Irakly Kaveladze, a known money launderer.
Somehow, the 8th person at the Trump Tower meeting on June 9, 2016 isn't even listed:
"A translator named Anatoli Samochornov was in the meeting between Donald Trump’s campaign team and two Russian lobbyists last year.
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.
Samochornov has a long track record of interpreting for governmental agencies and dignitaries, including Russia’s leading human rights activist and the U.S. State Department.
Samochornov’s work for Veselnitskaya extended outside of the courtroom.
Veselnitskaya formed a nonprofit group called the Human Rights Accountability Global Initiative Foundation, which employed Akhmetshin as a lobbyist. The group’s stated purpose is to restart the adoptions of Russian children to the U.S. by repealing the Magnitsky Act.
In April 2016, Samochornov interpreted for Veselnitskaya at an aborted screening of an anti-Magnitsky Act documentary in Belgium.
Federal prosecutors claimed in court that Samochornov was an “officer” of Veselnitskaya’s group.
In one exchange from May 2017, prosecutors and defense attorneys sparred over whether Samochornov should be allowed to serve as an interpreter for Denis Katsyv, owner of Russian company Prevezon on trial for money laundering.
Samochornov was named on Friday by Rinat Akhmetshin, a lobbyist who also attended the Trump Tower meeting. Samochornov’s mother-in-law confirmed he was at the meeting in an exclusive interview with The Daily Beast at his home on Thursday morning."
https://www.thedailybeast.com/man-who-joined-russians-in-trump-meeting-just-an-interpreter-says-mother-in-law
"He has apparently been engaged in lobbying efforts that seem to have some connection to at least the defendants’ lawyers in Washington,” assistant U.S. attorney Paul Monteleoni said, according to a court transcript."
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Trump Tower Russia Meeting
"Donald Trump Jr. arranged a meeting with a Kremlin-connected lawyer after being told that the Russian government wanted to share damaging information about Mrs. Clinton.
After the meeting was uncovered by The New York Times, the Trump team pushed a false narrative about the reason for holding it."
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/03/20/us/politics/mueller-investigation-people-events.html
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https://www.businessinsider.com/us-lawmakers-question-irakly-kaveladze-trump-tower-meeting-donald-trump-jr-2017-12
Photo of Kaveladze:
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The panels knew Kaveladze was at the June 9, 2016 meeting but became more interested in him after learning he also attended a private dinner in Las Vegas in 2013 with Trump and Agalarov as they celebrated an agreement to hold that year's Miss Universe pageant in Moscow, the sources said."
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