By Adam Entous, Greg Miller, Kevin Sieff and Karen DeYoung April 3 The United Arab Emirates arranged a secret meeting in January between Blackwater founder Erik Prince and a Russian close to President Vladimir Putin as part of an apparent effort to establish a back-channel line of communication between Moscow and President-elect Donald Trump, according to U.S., European and Arab officials. […]
By Theodore Schleifer, Julia Horowitz and Eugene Scott, Sun April 2, 2017 Washington (CNN) President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, did not include receiving thousands of dollars in speaking fees from three Russian companies in initial financial disclosures to the Office of Government Ethics, copies of the reports show. CLICK IMAGE for direct link […]
By Peter Lance April 1st, 2017. The Huffington Post. First published on investigating trump.com The Huffington Post 3:22 PM ET Regarding ex-National Security Advisor Michael Flynn’s recent request for immunity, there’s a lesson to be learned from a short-lived Mafia murder trial in Brooklyn nearly a decade ago. On March 30th, 2006 R. Lindley DeVecchio, a celebrated […]
Spencer Ackerman 30 March 2017 Donald Trump’s willingness to embrace Russian disinformation was one of the reasons Russia’s interference in the 2016 election worked, the Senate panel investigating the president’s alleged ties to the country heard on Thursday. CLICK IMAGE ABOVE for direct link to story. Decades of Russian covert attempts to undermine confidence in […]
Noah Kirsch Mar 31, 2017 Oleg Deripaska, an international aluminum tycoon, is one of five dozen Russian billionaires whose net worth has risen since Donald Trump’s election. The 49-year-old Muscovite has benefited tremendously from a global rebound in aluminum prices and a surge in the ruble’s value; his fortune has jumped $1.6 billion since November 8. […]
By SHANE HARRIS, CAROL E. LEE and JULIAN E. BARNES March 30, 2017 WASHINGTON—Mike Flynn, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, has told the Federal Bureau of Investigation and congressional officials investigating the Trump campaign’s potential ties to Russia that he is willing to be interviewed in exchange for a grant of immunity from prosecution, according to officials with knowledge […]
By MATTHEW ROSENBERG, MAGGIE HABERMAN and ADAM GOLDMAN MARCH 30, 2017 WASHINGTON — A pair of White House officials played a role in providing Representative Devin Nunes of California, a Republican and the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, with the intelligence reports that showed that President Trump and his associates were incidentally swept up in foreign surveillance by American […]
By Rosalind S. Helderman and Tom Hamburger March 29 In June, a Belarusan American businessman who goes by the name Sergei Millian shared some tantalizing claims about Donald Trump. CLICK IMAGE ABOVE for direct link to story. Trump had a long-standing relationship with Russian officials, Millian told an associate, and those officials were now feeding Trump damaging information […]
BY JOSH SAUL AND MAX KUTNER 3/29/17 Updated: FBI Director James Comey attempted to go public as early as the summer of 2016 with information on Russia’s campaign to influence the U.S. presidential election, but Obama administration officials blocked him from doing so, two sources with knowledge of the matter tell Newsweek. CLICK IMAGE for direct link to story. Well before […]
By Grant Gross Senior Editor, IDG News Service | MAR 30, 2017 The Russian government used “thousands” of internet trolls and bots to spread fake news, in addition to hacking into political campaigns leading up to the 2016 U.S. election, according to one lawmaker. CLICK IMAGE ABOVE for direct link to story. Disinformation spread on social media was designed to […]
