So they’ve set up a “charity” to push the proposition that if the US gives them a pass for murdering a whistleblower, they’ll consider not condemning as many of their own children to die in orphanages. You can see why the GOP wants to learn from them.
(Meanwhile, the US has mostly given them a pass for the money laundering associated with the murder, settling their case for about 3 cents on the dollar.)
Excellent reporting!
This story has a glaring lack of mention of the dismissal of the Prevezon case, shortly after Trump took office.
(And almost immediately after US Attorney SDNY Preet Bharara’s firing.)
Wouldn’t Russian children be “somebody else’s babies”?
Hi, Kenga! Prevezon was actually settled, not dismissed, which I mention a couple of grafs above that first photo. But I get into the case a bit more deeply in my piece on Veselnitskaya from the other day, if you’re interested. Linked here. There’s a lot of unusual stuff in the case, notably a key witness who fell out a fourth-floor window in Moscow a few weeks before the trial date.
They’re white european (ish) babies adopted by Good White Christian Parents.
As a country we need to remember their crimes and prosecute them to the fullest. This Russian lawyer, her oligarch bosses and any Americans working with them need to pay the steepest price possible. We need to make the sanctions truly crippling on Russia. And we need to hit them back in a huge way on both the cyber war front, the political/diplomatic front and on the “another dead Russian who conspired to attack America has died of Polonium poisoning” front. Deadly serious about this.
Hey Sam - glad to make your acquaintance, and see you join the TPM team recently.
I’ll cop to not having been specific.
Insofar as the case goes - I’d say a settlement for ~2% of the proposed sanction is practically a dismissal.
There’s a linear relationship I think is quite relevant to this topic, between DTJr, Kushner, Manafort and Russian gov’t, oligarchy, and organized crime - which Veselnitskaya lays bare.
None of these things occurred in a vacuum - there is a relationship and an astonishing number of what could be called coincidences. I believe no story about the individual elements is accurate without at least a mention of them. (I am not, however, a journalist.)
I don’t know if it is just a matter that TPM reporters are too busy, or if there is a philosophical reason, but it seems rare for reporters to respond to comments in the story. I can see how it would be a large time suck to follow all the comments for everything you write, but I really appreciate when the reporter can respond to insightful questions raised in the comment section. I hope to see more of it. Thanks!
Those are not unreasonable assumptions, to be sure, and if you don’t see them in the piece it’s not because they’re unreasonable, but because they’re assumptions. I try to live by the hoary old reporter’s maxim, “If your mother says she loves you, check it out.”
After the May 18 meeting in Rohrabacher’s office, the California Republican proposed changing the name on the legislation, calling it “a gratuitous slap at Russia.”
So McCarthy was right, Rohrabacher is being paid by Putin. “Swear to God!”
Actually, they’re not. They’d be slavic babies from an Eastern nation.
And white.
Define “white” 
I’ll see your Slav and raise you an African:
they would be (Well, some of them) Real Caucasians.
Touche!
True…because the Caucasus are not in Europe.