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The 'RussiaGate' Scandal
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short history
major & minor players
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"Whether or not the Trump campaign colluded with Russian interests, the campaign was at least the beneficiary of what national security agencies characterize
as Russian attempts to influence the election with inflammatory online reports targeting Hillary Clinton." ~~ August 2017 article at C.N.B.C.
"The crux of the matter: The battle around the treasonous actions of the Trump Team - versus restoring the Constitution - is being fought between
propagandists who lie and public servants who are vilified for telling the truth." — G.E. Nordell
18 U.S. Code § 2381 - Treason: “Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies,
giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than
five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.”
“Our boy can become president of the USA and we can engineer it. I will get all of Putin’s team to buy in on this, I will manage this process.”
and “I will get Putin on this program and we will get Donald elected.” ~~ from two emails in 2016 by Trump consultant Felix Sater
The F.B.I was investigating suspicious communications between the Trump Organization and various Russian persons and organizations from 2014, long before Donald Trump announced his run for U.S. President.
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'Special Counsel investigation, 2017-2019' entry at Wikipedia
'Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections' entry at Wikipedia
'timeline of Russian interference in U.S. elections' entry at Wikipedia
![Committee to Investigate Russia [est. 5/2017]](images/CommitteeToInvestigateRussia.jpg "Committee to Investigate Russia [est. 5/2017]")
| Leaders across the political spectrum formed the Committee to Investigate Russia in May 2017, an attempt to wake We The People up to already-existing cyber warfare, especially from the Russian government. The video of Morgan Freeman's warning was immediately attacked for all the wrong reasons by alt-right trolls and the mainstream media. The point that they missed is that The United States must take decisive action to protect commercial and government sites that are accessible on the internet from potential denial-of-service attacks as well as just plain shutdowns. The electrical grid, nuclear power plants, and aircraft & rail travel are all quite vulnerable to many forms of disruption. And then there is the matter of identity theft and stolen funds. |
watch 9/2017 promo [2:06] online at YouTube
U.S. Congress
House Judiciary Committee chairman Cong. Jerrold Nadler [D-NY]
House Oversight & Reform Committee chairman Cong. Elijah Cummings [D-MD]
House Ways and Means chairman Cong. Richard Neal [D-MA]
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
chairman Sen. Richard Burr [GOP-NC]
member Sen. Martin Heinrich [D-NM]
Organizations
Alfa-Bank JSC [est. 1990]
One of the largest private commercial banks in Russia, Alfa-Bank was founded by Israeli-Russian oligarch Mikhail M. Fridman.
Russian company website +
English company website •
company entry at Wikipedia
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Cambridge Analytica [2013-2018]
Alt-right politico Steve Bannon worked as vice president of the board of Cambridge Analytica, which is owned largely by the Mercer family, which also co-owns Breitbart News.
official company website •
entry at Wikipedia
got access to information on at least 50 million Facebook users. Facebook shares finished the day down 13 percent from a record high reached in February; Zuckerberg is said to
have lost $6B (virtual money) on that single day.
"Trumping Democracy: Real Money • Fake News • Your Data"
[Amazon streaming Nov 2017, DVD release Dec 2017]
 | "In the darkness of the web, democracy was trumped by data." • Explosive documentary that follows the money in the 2016 election cycle to the elusive billionaire Robert Mercer, who bought Breitbart News and funded the effort while inserting Steve Bannon into the presidential campaign as its manager. Mercer-owned company Cambridge Analytica used data of millions of Americans – acquired from Facebook, Google, banks, credit companies, social security, and more – and tactics honed during the U.K.'s Brexit campaign to identify voters deemed 'most neurotic or worried', whom they believed could swing for Trump. In the days before the election, using a little-known Facebook feature called 'dark posts', Cambridge Analytica deployed highly manipulative & personalized messages seen only one time by the user before disappearing. • 69-minute documentary film directed by Thomas Huchon
Cinema Libre color DVD [12/2017] for $11.63 Amazon Instant Video [11/2017] rental $3.99, purchase $9.99 bare credits at IMDb • official movie website • watch 11/2017 official trailer [3:04] online at YouTube |
"The Great Hack" [Netflix streaming July 2019]
 | 2-hour documentary film streamed on Netflix since July 2019 • Co-produced, co-written & directed by Karim Amer; co-produced & co-written by Pedro Kos; co-directed by Jehane Noujaim; co-written by Erin Barnett; music by Gil Talmi; featuring whistleblower Brittany Kaiser, David Carroll, whistleblower Paul-Olivier Dehaye, Ravi Naik, Julian Wheatland, Carole Cadwalladr, Paul Hilder, Emma Graham-Harrison, whistleblower Christopher Wylie, Gill Phillips, Sarah Donaldson & Roger McNamee; with archive footage of: Steve Bannon, Jamie Bartlett, Gerard Batten, Maria Cantwell, Hillary Clinton, Damian Collins, Ted Cruz, Nigel Farage, TV journalist Amy Goodman, Chuck Grassley, Dean Heller, Lester Holt, Ian Lucas, Christian Matheson (MP), Seth Meyers, Alexander Nix (former CEO of Cambridge Analytica), Brendan O'Hara (MP), Barack Obama, Kamla Persad-Bissessar (Prime Minister of Trinidad & Tobago), Donald Trump & Mark Zuckerberg
DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • full credits at IMDb |
 | "Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and The Plot To Break America" [2019]  by Christopher Wylie, former Cambridge Analytica research director book explains how Cambridge Analytica harvested the information of tens of millions of Facebook users, then used the data to target people susceptible to disinformation, racist thinking, and conspiracy theories Kindle Edition from Random House [10/2019] for $14.99 Random House 9½x6¼ hardcover [10/2019] for $22.12 Profile Books 9½x6½ hardcover [10/2019] for $23.21 |
 | "Targeted: The Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower's Inside Story of How Big Data, Trump, and Facebook Broke Democracy and How It Can Happen Again" [2019] by Brittany Kaiser, former Cambridge Analytica business development director Kindle Edition from HarperCollins Publrs [10/2019] for $14.99 Harper 9x6 hardcover [10/2019] for $28.99 |
Concord Management and Consulting, LLC [est. 1995] of St. Petersburg, Russia
A Russian company controlled by several oligarchs, including Yevgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin and his mother; the U.S. Treasury Department in June 2017 added Concord to the list of companies sanctioned for Russia's military interventions in Crimea and the Ukraine; Concord was indicted in February 2018 for backing Internet Research Agency (the Russian 'Troll Farm') and its social media campaign to turn voters against Trump's 2016 opponent; lawyers for Concord filed to have the case thrown out, but a U.S. District Judge ruled on August 13 that Special Counsel Robert Mueller has the power to pursue the case against Concord and that Mueller's appointment by the Justice Department "does not violate core separation-of-powers principles" and that Mueller had not exceeded his authority.
official company website not found • entry at Wikipedia
Fusion GPS [est. 2011] of Washington, DC
official company website •
entry at Wikipedia
In April 2016, attorney Marc Elias hired Fusion GPS on behalf of the Clinton campaign; in June 2016, Fusion GPS subcontracted former MI6 agent Christopher Steele
to research and compile a private intelligence report on Donald Trump's dealings with Russia. Following Trump's election as president in November 2016, the completed
Steele dossier was handed to British and American intelligence services. On 10 January 2017, the Donald Trump–Russia dossier was published in full in BuzzFeed News,
denoting various ties between Trump and Russia. The owners of Russia's Alfa-Bank are suing BuzzFeed News,
Fusion GPS and co-founder Glenn R. Simpson,
and Christopher Steele for defamation and-or libel for being mentioned in the Steele dossier.
Internet Research Agency [est. 2013] based in the Olgino historic district of St. Petersburg, Russia
better known as the Russian 'Troll Farm' or the 'Trolls from Olgino'; funded by Yevgeniy Viktorovich Prigozhin, an oligarch with close ties to Russian President Putin.
official company website not found • entry at Wikipedia
Thirteen Russian nationals associated with the 'Troll Farm' were indicted on 16 February 2018; they are not likely to stand trial, but the immediate penalties include difficulties with banks and credit and loss of travel options (if they visit a signatory country, they will be arrested based on the American warrants - same problems that Julian Assange is dealing with). The charges include conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to commit wire fraud & bank fraud, and aggravated identity theft; named in the indictment were Mikhail Leonidovich Burchik, executive director; Mikhail Ivanovich Bystrov, general director; Aleksandra Yuryevna Krylova, director; and employees Dzheykhun Nasimi Ogly Aslanov (8 counts), Anna Vladislavovna Bogacheva, Maria Anatolyevna Bovda, Robert Sergeyevich Bovda, Irina Viktorovna Kaverzina (7 counts), Vadim Vladimirovich Podkopaev, Sergey Pavlovich Polozov, Yevgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin, Gleb Igorevitch Vasilchenko (8 counts), and Vladimir Venkov.
On 19 October 2018, the Justice Department unveiled the first foreign-meddling conspiracy case to arise from the 2018 midterm campaign, charging Russian accountant Elena Alekseevna Khusyaynova, 44, with helping to spread election disinformation through fake social media accounts; Khusyaynova was allegedly the chief accountant for 'Project Lakhta', a disinformation effort spearheaded by the St. Petersburg-based Internet Research Agency 'troll farm'; she is charged with 'conducting information warfare against the United States' and 'spreading content online that sought to fan the flames of political intensity through supporting radical groups and inciting racial tension'.
On U.S. national mid-term election day 6 November 2018, the U.S. military Cyber Command blocked Russian troll factory Internet Research Agency's internet access.
law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom [est. 1948]
Skadden firm was hired by Paul Manafort to work on his behalf in Ukraine
Skadden's current or former employees/partners include:
Gregory Craig - under investigation about work for the Ukrainian government
Laura Ingraham, Fox News propagandist
Belgian-Dutch lawyer Alex R. van der Zwaan - convicted for lying about being a foreign agent
The Trump Organization []
Matthew Calamari, executive at the Trump Organization
personal attorney Michael D. Cohen worked as vice president at the Trump Organization
Ron Lieberman, executive at the Trump Organization
Abraham Wallach, executive vice president of the Trump Organization in 2000
Allen Howard Weisselberg [b. 1947], longtime Trump Organization CFO
described by The Wall Street Journal as Trump's 'financial gatekeeper'; granted immunity in 2018 by federal investigators over the investigation of Michael Cohen.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Weisselberg
U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence [est. 1977]
official website •
Wikipedia
U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence [est. 1976]
official website •
Wikipedia
"O.D.N.I. Statement on Declassified Intelligence Community Assessment of Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent U.S. Elections" [Jan 2017]
O.D.N.I. Statement - 1.51MB .PDF file [Jan 2017]
"Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Russian Active Measures: Part One" [July 25, 2019]
the report concludes that Russia attacked U.S. state election systems and spread disinformation in 2016
Volume 1: Russian Efforts Against Election Infrastructure - 23.9MB .PDF file [7/2019]
article by Vishnu Kannan at Lawfare blog website [est. 2015]
"Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Russian Active Measures: Part Two - Russia's Use of Social Media" [October 2019]
the report concludes that Russia's infamous 'troll farm' Internet Research Agency "sought to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election by harming
Hillary Clinton's chances of success and by supporting Donald Trump at the direction of the Kremlin"
Volume 2: Russia's Use of Social Media - 7.14MB .PDF file [10/2019]
article by Mikhaila Fogel at Lawfare blog website [est. 2015]
The Senate Intelligence Committee has so far released two installments of its five-part investigative report.
Individuals
Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee
Tennessee Senate [GOP, SD23], 1999-2002; Congress [GOP, TN-07], 2003-2018; running for U.S. Senate in 2018
Back in 2012, the Tennessee Democratic Party alleged that Blackburn "met with accused spy master Alexander Torshin when he visited Williamson County
as an election observer, squired by her former campaign president, attorney & friend G. Kline Preston IV".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsha_Blackburn
William Felix 'Bill' Browder, chief executive officer of Hermitage Capital Management 
One-time largest investor in the Russian stock market; his lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky [1972-2009], died mysteriously in prison and so Browder pushed for the Magnitsky Act of 2012
which authorizes the U.S. government to ban visas and freeze assets of human-rights violators around the world (such as Vladimir Putin and his cronies); Browder was mentioned
by name by Putin at the Helsinki Surrender Summit press conference in July 2018.
personal/book website •
Hermitage Fund [est. 1996] {website down 7/2018} •
entry at Wikipedia
 | "Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight For Justice" [2015] by Bill Browder Kindle Edition from Simon & Schuster Digital Sales [2/2015] for $12.99 Simon & Schuster 8½x5½ pb [10/2015] for $9.07 Simon & Schuster 9x6 hardcover [2/2015] out of print/used |
Russian gun rights lobbyist Mariya Butina 
2018 April: F.B.I. agents raided the home of Mariya Butina as part of an investigation of Russian intelligence operations that is separate from Mueller's team.
2018 July 15: F.B.I. agents arrested Mariya Butina on charges of being an unregistered agent of Russia, taking orders from mob-connected Russian politician Alexandr Torshin
while lobbying the N.R.A. and members of Congress; next day, the Justice Department unsealed an indictment for conspiracy against the U.S. (possible 5 years in prison)
and then a grand jury indicted her on the more serious charge of acting as an unregistered agent of the Russian government (possible 10 years in prison).
2019 April 16: Mariya Butina was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison.
Right To Bear Arms website (Cyrillic content) •
entry at Wikipedia
watch John Bolton 2013 video speaking to Russians about America's Second Amendment [3/2018 upload; 3:17] online at YouTube
watch 'Who Is Maria Butina' 7/2018 news segment from The Washington Post [1:46] online at YouTube
boyfriend Paul Erickson
longtime conservative-movement insider who helped Butina befriend people in the N.R.A.; Erickson was indicted in 2019 in South Dakota
on charges of several financial crimes, none of which involved Butina or Russia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erickson_(activist)
enigmatic funder Alexander Ionov { not the Russian soccer star }
New revelations in March 2019 suggest that one of Butina’s legal backers is a 30-year-old Russian with ties to the Kremlin who has long been trying
to meddle in American politics through an NGO that he runs.
Trump advisor & Russian agent Michael R. Caputo
diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma 9/2020; job at H.H.S. expired 1/2021
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Caputo
 | "The Ukraine Hoax: Impeachment, Biden Cash, and Mass Murder" propaganda film [Jan 2020] Co-produced by Michael Caputo and 25-year business partner Sergey Petrushin, who is a Russian oligarch living in Miami, with 'support' from Andrii Derkach (Russian intelligence agent), Konstantin Kilimnik (Russian intelligence agent and associate of Paul Manafort), and Andrii Telizhenko (Russian intelligence agent and close associate of Rudy Giuliani). The film was broadcast once on 21 January 2020 on the One America News Network (OANN) and was released on DVD in May 2020 thru Surfside Productions, LLC; since then, the film has basically disappeared: DVDs are not available at Amazon, no credits at IMDb, and the film entry at Wikipedia contains a mere 200 words, and very little detail information. |
 | "The Ukraine Hoax: How Decades of Corruption In The Former Soviet Republic Led To Trump's Phony Impeachment" [2020] by Michael R. Caputo Kindle Edition from Bombardier Books [2/2020] for $9.99 Bombardier Books 8¼x5½ pb [2/2020] for $18.00 Bombardier Books 8½x5½ hardcover [2/2022] for $27.00 
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Trump's longtime personal attorney Michael D. Cohen
worked as vice president at the Trump Organization
Wikipedia
Michael Cohen's lawyer Lanny Davis (July 2018)
Mark Corallo
former spokesman for President Trump's legal team, plans to tell Special Counsel Robert Mueller how Donald Trump Sr. and people
close to him crafted a false press release about Donald Trump Jr.'s 2016 meeting at Trump Tower with Russians.
Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska
2018 April: Oleg Deripaska, a Russian oligarch close to the Kremlin, was sanctioned by the United States.
2018 June 27: Federal court officials unsealed a search warrant application from July 2017 that says that a company controlled by
Paul Manafort and his wife received a $10 million loan from Oleg Deripaska.
retired Army LtGen Michael T. 'Mike' Flynn
former Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency under Barack Obama from 7/2012 to 8/2014
principal at lobbying firm Flynn Intel Group [est. 2014] from 8/2014 to 12/2016
former White House National Security Advisor {{appointed 1/2017 > resigned 2/2018}}
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Flynn
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_Intel_Group [est. 2014]
http://www.flynnintelgroup.com/ {website down? 2018}
 | "The Field of Fight: How We Can Win The Global War Against Radical Islam and Its Allies" [Instant New York Times Bestseller 2016] by Lieutenant General (Ret.) Michael T. Flynn & Michael Ledeen Kindle Edition from St. Martin's/Macmillan [7/2016] for $9.99 St. Martin's Griffin 8¼x5½ pb [5/2017] for $10.87 St. Martin's Press 8½x5¾ hardcover [7/2016] for $14.84 |
Flynn was due to be sentenced Tuesday 12-17 for lying to the FBI but that event has been postponed to March 2019.
Two former associates of Michael Flynn, Bijan Kian and Ekim Alptekin, were indicted Monday 12/17/2018 on allegations of conspiracy and illegally acting as agents of foreign governments. The Justice Department said that both men were involved in a 'conspiracy to covertly influence U.S. politicians and public opinion' against Fethullah Gulen, a Turkish cleric living in Pennsylvania whose extradition has been requested by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (Flynn's lobbying firm Flynn Intel Group was used as part of this effort).
policy advisor Jeffrey D. 'J.D.' Gordon
Gordon founded Protect America Today, a national security-themed Super PAC in February 2012. Gordon encountered Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak and dozens of other foreign ambassadors at the U.S. State Dept.-sponsored Global Partners in Diplomacy Program during the Republican National Convention in July 2016 in Cleveland, Ohio; Gordon did not
acknowledge that fact until March 2017. Gordon left his campaign role as director of national security in August of 2016 for a position in Trump's transition team; in the following
two months, he exchanged emails with gun rights activist & alleged Russian agent Mariya Butina, inviting her to various events.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._D._Gordon
whistleblower Brittany Kaiser
former Cambridge Analytica business development director • entry at Wikipedia
| | "Targeted: The Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower's Inside Story of How Big Data, Trump, and Facebook Broke Democracy and How It Can Happen Again" [2019] by Brittany Kaiser, former Cambridge Analytica business development director Kindle Edition from HarperCollins Publrs [10/2019] for $14.99 Harper 9x6 hardcover [10/2019] for $28.99 |
Russian Ambassador Kislyak
Russian businessman Mikhail Lesin [1958-2015]
Lesin, former key adviser to Vladimir Putin, was found dead in his room at The Dupont Circle Hotel in Washington, DC on 5 Nov 2015; the official ruling is that he died of blunt force trauma after falling repeatedly in his room while intoxicated; the 2016 Steele Dossier suggests that Lesin was accidentally bludgeoned to death by Russian security who were supposed to scare him; Levin's death took place just days before he was to meet with Justice Department officials about the inner workings of the Russian television channel RT. A Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed nearly two years prior finally produced documents from the city’s medical examiner in March 2019: Lesin sustained a complete fracture of his neck 'at or near the time of his death', which finding offers no clear-cut evidence of foul play.
Kushner-Trump Family Department President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner Russian-American entrepreneur Yuri Milner Donald Trump, Jr.
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Paul Manafort Department former campaign chairman Paul John Manafort, Jr.
political consultant Tad Devine
Manafort business partner & Trump campaign aide Richard W. 'Rick' Gates III
former business associate W. Samuel Patten
political strategist Daniel Rabin
Jeffrey Yohai
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former White House Counsel Don McGahn
2019 April 22: Rep. Jerrold Nadler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, issued a subpoena requesting that former White House Counsel McGahn testify before the panel on May 21; the committee gave McGahn until May 7 to hand over documents related to former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn's discussion of sanctions with former Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, to President Trump's firing of former FBI Director James Comey, and possible pardons for Flynn, Trump's ex-lawyer Michael Cohen, and Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort; the committee is investigating whether Trump obstructed justice.
Special Investigator Robert S. Mueller III Mueller served as Assistant U.S. Attorney, 1986-87; as United States Attorney, 1990-93; as United States Assistant Attorney General, 1998-2001; and as Acting U.S. Deputy Attorney General, 2001; served as Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 2001 to 2013; appointed in May 2017 as Special Counsel to investigate Russian interference in U.S. elections official F.B.I./history homepage • IMDb listing • Wikipedia "The Lie Detector" cover story in the 3 July 2017 issue of TIME Magazine official Special Counsel homepage • Special Counsel Investigation, 2017-2019 entry at Wikipedia full text of AG Barr's 3/24/2019 4-page cover-up document Robert Mueller wrote on March 27 that Barr's letter “did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance
Mother Jones Magazine posted the entire 448-page redacted "Mueller Report" on their website on the day of release
video "The Truth About Trump Collusion and Obstruction In The Mueller Report"
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Congressman Devin Nunes [GOP CA-22] represents Tulare
chairman of the House Committee on Intelligence since 2015; stage-managed the release of a lying 4-page memo in February 2018 stating that no evidence was found
of collusion between Trump and the Russians and alleging surveillance abuses by the F.B.I. The Democratic minority members of the committee issued a 10-page rebuttal memo
(at first blocked by the White House, then released under pressure) spelling out the many falsehoods in the Nunes 'spin' memo. (Basically, the committee found no evidence
because they did not investigate – and prevented Democrats from doing so.)
{ full text of the Nunes 'spin' memo •
full text with NPR fact-checking }
Cong. Nunes sued Twitter and two Twitter accounts in March 2019 for defamation, demanding $250M in damages; he announced the lawsuit on Fox News; the Devin Nunes’ Cow parody account went from 1,000 followers to 400,000 followers in less than 48 hours; the other parody account is Devin Nunes' Mom.
Carter Page
http://www.intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/carter_page_hpsci_hearing_transcript_nov_2_2017.pdf
George Papadopoulos
Papadopoulos was hired as a foreign policy advisor to the Trump campaign in March 2016; he was interrogated by F.B.I. agents in January 2017 regarding any Trump campaign connections with Russia and arrested in July for making false statements to the F.B.I.; he pled guilty in October 2017, which became news two weeks later. After months of cooperation with Mueller's team, Papadopoulos's lawyers asked for zero jail time; however, in September 2018 the judge handed down a sentence of 14 days in prison, 12 months of supervised release, 200 days community service, and a fine of $9,500 •
entry at Wikipedia
Richard Pinedo of Santa Paula, California
After indictment for several charges of facilitating payments through stolen identities, Pinedo pled guilty to one count of identity fraud in February 2018; he is a self-described digital marketing strategist who once ran a website that sold stolen bank account and credit card information to people needing to get around security measures on online marketplaces such as Amazon and eBay. He insists, believably, that he had no idea that any of his customers were Russian nationals.
Yevgeniy Viktorovich Prigozhin
Russian oligarch with close ties to President Putin; primary funder of the Internet Research Agency 'Troll Farm' [est. 2013];
Prigoshin's holding company Concord Management was sanctioned in June 2017 for meddling in U.S. elections.
Russian dictator Vladimir Putin
K.G.B. agent 1975-91 (mostly in Germany); Director of the Federal Security Service, 1998-99;
Prime Minister of Russia, 1999-2012; President of Russia, 1999-2008 and 2012-present
more info on the Working Minds / Worry About / Tyranny Page / Vladimir Putin Section
 | "Putin's Propaganda Machine: Soft Power and Russian Foreign Policy" [2015] by Marcel H. Van Herpen Kindle Edition from Rowman & Littlefield [10/2015] for $17.60 {sic} Rowman & Littlefield Publrs 9x6 pb [10/2015] for $29.20 Rowman & Littlefield Publrs 9½x6¼ hardcover [10/2015] for $71.75 |
Republican Senator Risch
named in June 2018 as being investigated by the Mueller team
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein
Felix Henry Sater
Moscow-born former mobster, now living in USA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Sater
Sater was convicted in 1998 of fraud involving a $40 million penny stock 'pump and dump' scheme conducted by the Russian Mafia and his company White Rock Partners; in return for a guilty plea, he agreed to assist the F.B.I. and federal prosecutors as an informant; in 2009, he was sentenced to pay a $25,000 fine and served no prison time.
2019 Feb 5: Buzzfeed posted more than 200 pages of communications between Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen and Felix Sater, clearly showing the conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Russians.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions
testified in open hearing in June 2017 before Senate Intelligence Committee about his contacts with Russian officials during the 2016 campaign
Christopher Steele
former intelligence officer for British MI6
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Steele
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump%E2%80%93Russia_dossier
Peter Strzok
Longtime F.B.I. agent and former lead Russia investigator sent text messages disparaging President Trump;
he was escorted out of the agency's headquarters in June 2018 ahead of expected disciplinary action.
Aleksandr Porfiryevich Torshin
accused spy master, also the maybe-handler, maybe just close personal friend of accused Russian agent Mariya Butina; visited as an 'election observer' in Tennessee in 2012; very definitely attended the N.R.A.'s convention in Nashville in 2015. In April 2018, the U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions on 23 Russian nationals, including Torshin, whose assets in the United States were frozen and whose entry into the United States barred, besides being subject to other financial penalties.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Torshin
Belgian-Dutch lawyer Alex R. van der Zwaan
Indicted in February 2018 and pled guilty to lying to Mueller's F.B.I. investigators about lobbying for former Ukraine leaders; he is son-in-law to a wealthy Russian linked to Putin.
Van der Zwaan's firm, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, worked with former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort and former Trump campaign aide Rick Gates.
On April 3rd, lawyer van der Zwaan was sentenced to 30 days in prison and ordered to pay a $20,000 fine (he reportedly faced as much as five years in prison)
Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya
Watkins & Wolfe 
The Department of Justice notified New York Times reporter Ali Watkins in February 2018 that it had seized her phone & email records, going back several years, in an inquiry into leaks of classified information. The Times said that the seizure might have been related to her report for BuzzFeed News about attempts by Russian spies to recruit Carter Page in 2013 before he worked as a foreign policy adviser for President Trump's campaign. Watkins once had a personal relationship with James A. Wolfe, former director of security for the Senate Intelligence Committee, who was arrested in June 2018 on charges that he lied to the F.B.I. about his contacts with three reporters. In October 2018, James Wolfe pled guilty to one of the three charges that he faced for lying to the F.B.I. about his contact with a reporter; under the deal, prosecutors will seek to dismiss the other two counts at his December sentencing, where he could get from zero to six months in prison.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Watkins
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_A._Wolfe {empty}
whistleblower Reality Leigh Winner 
The former Air Force linguist was arrested in June 2017 on allegations that she gave members of the news media a secret report about Russian efforts to influence
the 2016 presidential election and was denied bail as a possible flight risk. (By charging her under the 101-year-old Espionage Act, she will not be allowed to defend herself
by arguing that the release of the document was in the public interest.) She pled guilty in June 2018 to a felony charge of leaking classified information;
the deal with prosecutors calls for a 63-month prison sentence and three years of supervised probation.
entry at Wikipedia
Works About 'RussiaGate'
 | "Impeachment: A Citizen’s Guide" [2017] by Cass R. Sunstein “Sunstein has written the story of impeachment [that] every citizen needs to know. This is a remarkable, essential book.” — Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin Kindle Edition from Harvard Univ Press [10/2017] for $5.25 Harvard Univ Press mass pb [10/2017] for $5.53 |
 | "Collusion: Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win" [2017] by Luke Harding (a Moscow-based foreign correspondent for The Guardian) Kindle Edition from Vintage/Random House [11/2017] for $9.99 Vintage Books 8x5 pb [11/2017] for $10.17 |
 | "Hacks: The Inside Story of The Break-ins and Breakdowns That Put Donald Trump In The White House" [2017] by Donna Brazile
Kindle Edition from Hachette Book Group [11/2017] for $14.99 Hachette Books pb [10/2018] for $16.99
Hachette Books 9¼x6½ hardcover [11/2017] for $15.27 |
 | "Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War On America and The Election of Donald Trump" New York Times bestseller [2018] by Michael Isikoff & David Corn Kindle Edition from Twelve/Hachette [3/2018] for $15.99 Twelve/Hachette 9x6 pb [3/2019] for $15.99 Twelve/Hachette 9x6 pb [undated] for $18.47 Twelve/Hachette 9x6½ hardcover [3/2018] for $18.00 |
 | "Trump/Russia: A Definitive History" [2018] by Seth Hettena Kindle Edition from Melville House/Penguin [5/2018] for $17.99 Melville House 8¼x5½ pb [3/2019] for $16.99 Melville House 9¼x6¼ hardcover [5/2018] for $20.79 |
 | "Dirty Rubles: An Introduction To Trump/Russia" [2018] by Greg Olear Kindle Edition from Four Sticks Press [5/2018] for $8.99 Four Sticks Press 7¾x5 pb [5/2018] for $12.99 |
 | "The Plot To Destroy Democracy: How Putin's Spies Are Winning Control of America and Dismantling The West" [2018] by Malcolm Nance
Kindle Edition from Hachette Books [DUE June 2018] for $14.99 Hachette Books hardcover [DUE June 2018] for $22.67 |
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"House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and The Russian Mafia" [2018] New York Times bestseller by Craig Unger
Kindle Edition from Dutton/Penguin [8/2018] for $14.99 Bantam Press 9¼x6 pb [8/2018] for $16.91 Dutton 9¼x6¼ hardcover [8/2018] for $19.35 |
 | "The Apprentice: Trump, Russia, and The Subversion of American Democracy" [2018] by Greg Miller Kindle Edition from Custom House/HarperCollins [10/2018] for $14.99 Custom House/HarperCollins 9x6 hardcover [10/2018] for $19.36 Custom House 9x6 hardcover [10/2018] for $14.99 |
 | "The Plot To Control The World: How The US Spent Billions To Change The Outcome of Elections Around The World" [2018] by Dan Kovalik Conspiracy theorist Kovalik has a point here: the United States (and-or fascist corporations) should stop meddling in 'democratic processes' in other countries; however, to suggest that America in recent years gives orders to Russia/Putin is ridiculous, since the action since Emperor Trump's inauguration has been Russia controlling or 'meddling with' the U.S.A. Kindle Edition from Hot Books/Simon & Schuster Digital Sales [11/2018] for $13.99 Hot Books 9x6 pb [11/2018] for $14.85 |
 | "Dividing America: How Russia Hacked Social Media and Democracy [8/2019] by Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado not yet available on Amazon; official website includes options for FREE ebook download, print copy purchase, and sending a copy to 'Moscow' Mitch McConnell |
Movies & TV, Stageplays, Other Media
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"Our New President"
 | 'A film composed almost completely of clips from the modern Russian propaganda machine – it is terrifying' • Maxim Pozdorovkin, the film’s Russian-American director, said "My idea was to make a movie based entirely on actual footage without a single true statement in it." • Co-produced by Joe Bender & Laura Poitras; co-produced, written & directed by Maxim Pozdorovkin; featuring Donald Trump & Vladimir Putin
12-minute short version [Sundance Festival Jan 2017] credits at IMDb • watch 4/2017 short version [12:04] online at YouTube 77-minute feature-length version [Third Party/Field of Vision 2018?]
credits at IMDb • official movie website |
"Inside The Russian Info War Machine" documentary [Java Films France 2018?]
French title "Guerre de L'Information au Coeur de La Machine Russe"
 | 90-minute documentary with English subtitles; French TV journalist Moreira investigates how Russia manipulates public opinion, undermines democratic governments, and attempts to alter world events. The public face of foreign policy is the state news channels: Sputnik and Russia Today; but working in the shadows is the hidden part of foreign policy: the hackers and trolls pushing the Russian agenda, 'a message tainted with illegitimacy'
Directed by Paul Moreira DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • Amazon Instant Video [2018] not yet available credits at IMDb • official movie site watch 3/2018 official trailer [2:59] at YouTube |
"Active Measures" [indep Aug 2018]
 | "shocking, brilliant, and devastating - an absolute must-see" • presents details of how Russian president Vladimir Putin attacked the 2016 American presidential election in collaboration with the Trump campaign • Co-produced, co-written & directed by Jack Bryan; co-produced & co-written by Marley Clements; with archive footage of Donald J. Trump & Vladimir Putin; featuring Jeremy Bash, Nina Burleigh, Alexandra Chalupa, Hillary Clinton, Heather Conley, John Dean, Richard Fontaine, Dan Fried, Steven Hall, Scott Horton, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, journalist Michael Isikoff, Herb Lin, John Mattes, Sen. John McCain, Michael McFaul, Molly McKew, Evan McMullin, Steven Pifer, John Podesta, Alina Polyakova, Asha Rangappa, Mikhail Saakashvili, Eric Swalwell, Craig Unger, Clint Watts, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, Jonathan Winer, James Woolsey
DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • full credits at IMDb • official movie website • movie entry at Wikipedia watch 8/2018 official trailer [2:04] online at YouTube |
Fake-News & Anti-Propaganda
 | "The Plot To Scapegoat Russia: How The C.I.A. and The Deep State Have Conspired To Vilify Putin" [2017] by Dan Kovalik, Introduction by David Talbot
Kindle Edition from Skyhorse/Simon & Schuster Digital Sales [6/2017] for $13.99 Skyhorse Publng 9x6 pb [6/2017] for $12.00 "Rosja Jako Kozyol Ofiarny (Russia As Sacrificial Goat)" [Poland 2018] Wektory Polish-language 8¼x5¾ pb [2018] for $24.74 |
 | "Russiagate: The Second 100 Days - Deep State/Media Coup d'Etat!" [2017] by T.M. Ballantyne Jr., Foreword by Jerome R. Corsi, PhD book's premise is that since Emperor Trump was elected, the Media/Left have been in open rebellion, now expressing itself in 'an undeniable coup d’etat', and this book seeks 'to discern and expose their true intent' – oh, balderdash! Ballantyne Books 9x6 pb [8/2017] for $14.99 |
 | "Russiagate: The Establishment Lie - Debunking The Lie That Blames Russia For America's Problems" [2018] by Gordon J. Dimmack of U.K. author Dimmack has earned a reputation on social media as a troll; this book as described could be either for or against 'the establishment', hard to tell; in any case, Dimmack has mixed viewpoints, i.e. he thinks global warming is very real 61-page Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [2/2018] for $4.99 181-page indep 9x6 pb [2/2018] for $14.99 |
 | "Killing The Deep State: The Fight To Save President Trump" [2018] by Jerome R. Corsi, PhD Kindle Edition from Humanix Books [3/2018] for $16.19 {sic} Humanix Books 9¼x6¼ hardcover [3/2018] for $17.99 |
 | "The Russia Hoax: The Illicit Scheme To Clear Hillary Clinton and Frame Donald Trump" [2018] by (Fox propagandist) Gregg Jarrett There are enough brainwashed idiots in America to make this tripe an Amazon bestseller! "The evidence suggests that partisans within the F.B.I. and the Department of Justice, driven by personal animus and a misplaced sense of political righteousness, surreptitiously acted to subvert electoral democracy in our country." — BAH! The 'deep state' concept is horsesh*t. Kindle Edition from Broadside e-books [7/2018] for $14.99 Broadside Books 9x6 hardcover [7/2018] for $16.79 |
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"Liars, Leakers, and Liberals: The Case Against The Anti-Trump Conspiracy" [2018] by {Fox TV judge} Jeanine Pirro There are enough brainwashed idiots in America to make this troll-job an Amazon bestseller! "There are dark forces that seek to obstruct and undermine the president" – Well, maybe, but they're all in the White House, m'dear. Kindle Edition from Center Street/Hachette [7/2018] for $9.99 Center Street 8x5¼ pb [3/2019] for $10.68 Center Street 9½x6¾ hardcover [7/2018] for $18.36 |
 | "Spygate: The Attempted Sabotage of Donald J. Trump" [2018] by {Florida podcaster} Dan Bongino, D.C. McAllister & Matt Palumbo There are enough brainwashed idiots in America to make this tripe an Amazon pre-order bestseller! A falsely-advertised work of fiction. Kindle Edition from Post Hill Press [10/2018] for $9.99 Post Hill Press 9x6 hardcover [10/2018] for $17.70 |
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L i n k s
'Special Counsel investigation, 2017–present' entry at Wikipedia
'Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections' entry at Wikipedia
'timeline of Russian interference in U.S. elections' entry at Wikipedia
'Investigating Trump' blog, active Jan-July 2017
here on the 'RussiaGate' Scandal Page at Spirit of America Bookstore
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