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Hello and welcome to the Daily Beans for Thursday, January 2nd, 2020.

I'm your host A.G. and today we have an interview from the more she wrote

episode called Trump as a Russian asset.

And the interview is with the architect of the Magnitsky Act Bill Browder.

The interview originally air January 13th, 2019, and we discuss the indictment

at the time of Vesselnetzkaya. She's the Russian lawyer that was in the room

in the famous June 2016 Trump Tower meeting with Don Jr. Manifort and Goldstone

and other high-level Trump campaign officials. I hope you enjoy it.

All right, so back in the mid to late 2000s, some bad ombre's stole about $230 million

in a Russian tax fraud scheme and then laundered that money through real estate transactions

in New York using a Cypress-based investment firm called Prevazon Holdings.

Magnitsky, a tax fraud specialist, alleged that the theft was carried out by Russian officials

and Putin, a guy who we know gets rich stealing from the Russian people, targeted Magnitsky.

So they arrested him in 2008 and they beat him and starved him and tortured him,

didn't provide him health care while he was in prison and he died in Russian custody.

And then we get to Bill Browder. He's the CEO of Hermitage Capital,

who in response to Magnitsky's murder, lobbied Congress, U.S. Congress to pass the Magnitsky Act

to punish human rights violators. Obama signed it into law in 2012 and in response,

Putin banned U.S. adoptions of Russian children. Putin also put together a group of anti- Magnitsky

act lobbyists, which included Vesselnetskaya and she pitched her tale to folks like Dana

Rorobacher, who just recently lost his bid for Congress. And she even brought her Magnitsky

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