Special Edition: Jaimie Nawaday on the Veselnitskaya Indictment
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🗓️ 9 January 2019
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Benjamin Wittes talks to Jaimie Nawaday, a former federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York, to discuss the indictment of Natalia Veselnitskaya over alleged obstruction of justice in a case Nawaday handled. Nawaday talks about Russian abuse of the American justice system and how Veselnitskaya colluded with the Russian chief prosecutor's office to frustrate American prosecutors.
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| 1:04.5 | I'm Benjamin Wittis and this is the LawFair podcast special edition January 8, 2018. |
| 1:11.3 | A few weeks ago I was asked to speak on a panel at George Mason University on Russian |
| 1:17.4 | abuse of the American legal system and I found myself speaking alongside a woman named |
| 1:23.6 | Jamie Nauode who had been a Southern District of New York prosecutor and she had a remarkable |
| 1:30.1 | story to tell. |
| 1:32.4 | Today I came into work and found that the US government had indicted the infamous Russian |
| 1:39.1 | lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya over precisely the conduct that Jamie described at that event. |
| 1:47.2 | So I did what any red blooded American would do under the circumstances. |
| 1:51.2 | I picked up the phone and called Jamie and asked her to record a podcast about it and |
| 1:56.0 | talked me through what happened, what Veselnitskaya and the Russian government had done and |
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