Top Democrat Requests Secret Service Records on Trump Jr. Meeting

The U.S. president has been dogged by allegations the Russian government worked to help him defeat his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.

President Donald Trump had a second and previously undisclosed meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin while both were in Germany for the G20 meeting.

People working for Browder also shared all her personal details with representatives of the State Department, Veselnitskaya said.

The White House did confirm this meeting took place, though they take issue with the characterization of it as a meeting, calling it instead a a “brief conversation at the end of a dinner”.

The Times reported that investigators found that Kaveladze had opened accounts at American banks that were then used to launder more than $1.4 billion from “unknown Russians and other Eastern Europeans”. The $300,000 campaign partly financed by Denis Katsyv, Prevezon’s owner and a client of Veselnitskaya’s.

Trump Jr. scheduled the gathering after Goldstone, a British publicist for Emin Agalarov, said Veselnitskaya might have damaging information on Clinton she could share.

It is wacky how often the Trumps find themselves in close proximity to accused worldwide criminals with ties to Russian oligarchs and Russia’s government.

Veselnitskaya’s work history could become fodder for federal and congressional investigators probing whether the Trump campaign coordinated with Russian Federation to meddle in the election.

But following official statements on what transpired, there was widespread confusion over whether Trump agreed, as Putin later said, to accept the Kremlin’s denial of any wrongdoing regarding interference in last years election.

Others in attendance included Russian-American lobbyist and former Soviet counterintelligence officer Rinat Akhmetshin and Rob Goldstone, a British-born music promoter who represents Emin Agalarov, a Russian pop star.

President Trump’s nominee to head the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Christopher Wray, testified at his Senate confirmation hearing last week that anyone offered a meeting claiming to represent a foreign adversary like Russian Federation should have contacted the FBI.

Natalia Veselnitskaya: An attorney who lobbied professionally against USA human rights sanctions on Russian Federation.

Still, talks held on Monday in Washington between Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov and U.S. Undersecretary of State Thomas Shannon did not go well, U.S. and Russian officials said Tuesday.

As Veselnitskaya was both defending Prevezon and working for its owner’s anti-sanctions campaign, US officials began scrutinizing her actions and communications.

Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Mark Warner, D-Va., speaking with NPR’s Geoff Bennett, said he understood that Kaveladze has “a colorful history”.

Kaveladze did not respond to multiple requests for comment via email, and Balber did not immediately return a request for comment from TPM.