Special Edition: Anthony Cormier on Russia Wire Transfers
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🗓️ 17 January 2018
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Buzzfeed News has published a lengthy story by reporters Jason Leopold and Anthony Cormier entitled, "Investigators Are Scrutinizing Newly Uncovered Payments By The Russian Embassy." The story reports on an unusual set of wire transfers and movements of money by Russian diplomatic sources, including by former ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak in the period immediately surrounding Donald Trump's election and inauguration. The transactions, the story reports, are under scrutiny both from Special Counsel Robert Mueller and from the Senate Intelligence Committee. Cormier joined Benjamin Wittes on the podcast to discuss the story, the larger reporting stream of which it is a part, and what it may mean.
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| 0:30.2 | I'm Benjamin Widis and this is the LawFair podcast special edition January 17th 2018. |
| 0:39.4 | This morning Buzzfeed news reporters Jason Leopold and Anthony Cormier reported a story entitled |
| 0:48.1 | newly uncovered Russian payments are a focus of election investigation. |
| 0:53.9 | The subhead reads US authorities are pouring over hundreds of newly uncovered payments from |
| 1:00.2 | Russian diplomatic sources. |
| 1:03.2 | Among them are transactions by former ambassador Sergei Kislyak 10 days after the 2016 presidential |
| 1:11.4 | election and a blocked $150,000 cash withdrawal five days after the inauguration. |
| 1:20.0 | It's a story packed with fascinating reporting about financial transactions involving Russian |
| 1:27.5 | diplomatic sources. |
| 1:29.4 | I was joined today by one of the two reporters, Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporter |
| 1:36.2 | Anthony Cormier to discuss the story, the series of stories of which it is a part and |
| 1:43.4 | a path not taken by very many reporters on the Trump Russia story that of following the |
| 1:51.7 | money. |
| 1:53.1 | It's the LawFair podcast special edition Anthony Cormier on Russian wire transfers. |
| 2:02.0 | So Anthony, start if you will by just walking us through what you guys reported today because |
| 2:10.3 | it's actually a really complicated story that has a lot of different threads in it. |
| 2:18.2 | Right, right. |
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