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Government Corruption

FBI Raids Home of Russian Oligarch Oleg Deripaska Who Refused to Go Along With Russiagate Coup

2021-10-20

[Forbes] FBI Raids Home of Russian Oligarch Oleg Deripaska This Morning in DC — He’s Connected to the Steele Dossier

FBI Agents reportedly swarmed the home of Russian Oligarch Oleg Deripaska this morning in Washington DC. There’s no mention in today’s reporting of the FBI’s efforts to have Deripaska work for them in 2016.

NBC News reports:

FBI agents on Tuesday swarmed the home of Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska in Washington, D.C., an agency spokesperson confirmed to NBC News.

The reason for their presence wasn’t immediately clear. The spokesperson said the agency is conducting "law enforcement activity at the home," but wouldn’t elaborate.

From 2019:
Russian oligarch's story could spell trouble for Team Mueller

[TheHill] Sometimes it is the quiet, elusive ones who come back to haunt you. And for ex-special prosecutor Robert Mueller, one of those might be a Russian billionaire named Oleg Deripaska.

The oligarch who once controlled Russia’s largest aluminum empire has been an international man of intrigue in the now-completed and disproven Trump collusion investigation.

Deripaska was a disaffected former business client of Donald Trump’s fallen campaign chairman Paul Manafort. He also was a legal research client of Trump-hating, Clinton-aiding British spy Christopher Steele. In his spare time, he was an occasional friendly cooperator with the FBI and its fired deputy director, Andrew McCabe.

And, at the height of the Russia collusion hysteria, Deripaska was sanctioned by the Trump administration to financially punish Russian President Vladimir Putin for his meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

With the Russia case, in which he had so many connections, now completed, Deripaska is breaking his silence. And what he has to say could impact Mueller’s July 17 testimony before Congress.

In a wide-ranging interview with me, Deripaska confirmed a story told to me more than a year ago by law enforcement sources: He was indeed interviewed by FBI agents in September 2016 during the early Russia probe, and he told them he strongly doubted the bureau’s theory that the Trump campaign, through Manafort, was colluding with Moscow to hijack the 2016 election.

"I told them straightforward, ’Look, I am not a friend with him [Manafort]. Apparently not, because I started a court case [against him] six or nine months before ... . But since I’m Russian I would be very surprised that anyone from Russia would try to approach him for any reason, and wouldn’t come and ask me my opinion,' " he said, recounting exactly what he says he told the FBI agents that day.

"I told them straightforward, I just don’t believe that he would represent any Russian interest. And knowing what he’s doing on Ukraine for the last, what, seven or eight years."

Deripaska’s interview with the FBI reportedly was never provided by Team Mueller to Manafort’s lawyers, even though it was potential proof of innocence, according to Manafort defense lawyer Kevin Downing. Manafort, initially investigated for collusion, was convicted on tax and lobbying violations unrelated to the Russia case.

That omission opens a possible door for appeal for what is known as a Brady violation, for hiding exculpatory information from a defendant.

"Recent revelations by The Hill prove that the Office of Special Counsel’s (OSC) claim that they had a legitimate basis to include Paul Manafort in an investigation of potential collusion between the Trump presidential campaign and the Russian government is false," Downing told me. "The failure to disclose this information to Manafort, the courts, or the public reaffirms that the OSC did not have a legitimate basis to investigate Manafort.
FBI is going to charge this guy to hide their own crimes in the Russiagate sedition coup?

Courtesy of Skidmark:

FBI raids $15million D.C. mansion of Russian oligarch and Putin ally Oleg Deripaska, who had ties to former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and ex-MI6 spy Christopher Steele
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]

Oleg Deripaska is an oil tycoon with close ties to Russia's President Vladimir Putin and his government in general

His spokesperson said Deripaska doesn't own either of the homes searched but raids are sanctions-related

The Washington, DC residence is reportedly worth around $15 million and is called Haft Mansion

Deripaska was implicated in a 2020 Senate report as having aided Russia's efforts to interfere in the 2016 US presidential election cycle, working closely with Paul Manafort

In 2018 the Treasury Department accused Deripaska of ordering the murder of a fellow businessman, and blacklisted him as well as other Putin allies and businesses link to him

Related: The Washington Post outed Mr. Deripaska as the owner of that property and a Manafort client in 2017.

Posted by:Woodrow

#10 Obviously false -- a complete fabrication based on nothing at all -- an obvious HOAX to anyone with even an amateur's knowledge of Russia, Russians, the Russian state or the Russian business milieu.

Russia was chosen because in certain circles it is firmly believed that conservatives are automatically revolted by anything connected to Russia/the Soviet Union. And therefore they would unthinkingly turn their backs on Donald Trump, even if they didn’t flee straight into the welcoming arms of Hillary Clinton.

It turned out that conservatives are capable of thought — whodathunkit?

Posted by: trailing wife 2021-10-20 22:24

#9 Might as well call the FBI the KGB now. It in fact is.

Posted by: Woodrow 2021-10-20 21:50

#8 "I told them straightforward, I just don’t believe that he would represent any Russian interest. And knowing what he’s doing on Ukraine for the last, what, seven or eight years."

Duh. The entire idea that Trump or his people were acting on behalf of Putin was retarded.

Obviously false -- a complete fabrication based on nothing at all -- an obvious HOAX to anyone with even an amateur's knowledge of Russia, Russians, the Russian state or the Russian business milieu.

What complete idiots we have running our Establishment institutions.

Posted by: Merrick Ferret 2021-10-20 21:39

#7 Biden is doing what ant-Putin Ukraine paid him and Hunter to do.

Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 2021-10-20 21:07

#6 Steele re-emerges after a protracted absence, selling the Russiagate narrative on ABC, and within a week, this guy who was questioned about the Manafort connection and opined that it was unlikely to have a pro--Putin aspect is targeted by the FBI? There are rarely coincidences linked to high profile DC bloodsport in recent years. Durham and the Mueller facade reveal are roiling the waters, and this is in that "fog of war" I think.

Posted by: NoMoreBS 2021-10-20 13:32

#5 With the Steele interview, Is the Durham investigation coming?

Posted by: Woodrow 2021-10-20 12:05

#4 They haven't questioned anybody about this for weeks, and were getting lonely.

Posted by: ed in texas 2021-10-20 11:05

#3 Is this yet another one of those unending, indefatigable, petty efforts by the left to "get Trump?" Another chapter in Russia, Russia, Russia?

Posted by: JohnQC 2021-10-20 09:32

#2 There’s no mention in today’s reporting of the FBI’s efforts to have Deripaska work for them in 2016.

Turning down an FBI pitch, understandable. Derogatory comments about Obama, Clinton, or Hunter Biden paintings, absolutely unforgivable.

Posted by: Besoeker 2021-10-20 01:33

#1 Seems a bit late in the day to be raiding Mr Deripaska's digs. Picking something up? Or leaving something behind...

Posted by: SteveS 2021-10-20 00:24

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