2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP FAMILY/DONALD JR: “Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, who met with Donald Trump Jr. during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, wants permission to return to the United States to defend a claim by prosecutors that her client’s company has failed to pay a $6 million settlement in an international money laundering case.
Veselnitskaya represented Prevezon Holdings Ltd, a Russian-controlled company, which in May this year agreed to pay nearly $6 million to the U.S. government to settle a $230 million Russian tax fraud case related to Hermitage Capital, an American fund that invested in Russia.
In a court filing in federal court in Manhattan on Monday U.S. prosecutors said the settlement payment was due on Oct. 31, but in a letter on Tuesday filed in federal court in Manhattan lawyers for Prevezon disagreed…
Veselnitskaya met Donald Trump Jr in New York last year while she was in the United States to represent Prevezon in the money laundering case.
Trump Jr. said in a statement at the time that he and Veselnitskaya ‘primarily discussed a program about the adoption of Russian children’ after Russia in 2012 banned adoptions of Russian children by Americans in retaliation for sanctions imposed under the U.S. Magnitsky Act…
Trump Jr. has released emails related to the meeting during last year’s election that described Veselnitskaya as a Russian government attorney who could provide information that would ‘incriminate Hillary and her dealings with Russia and would be very useful to your father.’ “
-Karen Freifeld and Joel Schectman, “Russian lawyer who met Trump Jr. seeks return to U.S. to defend money laundering settlement,” Reuters, Oct. 31, 2017 06:12pm