Count Machuki wrote:wiki wrote:Deripaska is a friend of Nathaniel Rothschild, a major investor in both Glencore and United Company RUSAL. Together Deripaska and Rothschild hosted George Osborne and Peter Mandelson on Deripaska's yacht in Corfu in the summer of 2008. Osborne was then Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom and a friend of Rothschild from school and university. It was reported that Peter Mandelson had maintained private contacts over several years with Oleg Deripaska.
See, you'd think something like this would have JIMBO written all over it. But no.
Anybody see that Anastasia Vashukevich piece on the Maddow show last night? That freaking story is
nuts.
Please explain your point re me and the snippet from Deripaska's Wikipedia page. Did you read the whole page? Much less nefariousness than I thought. Most nefarious was this bit.
FBI recruitment attempt
According to anonymous sources cited by the 1 September 2018 New York Times′s report, Deripaska was twice approached by the U.S. government officials, including Bruce Ohr, as part of the U.S. government wider FBI–led recruitment effort to obtain informers in the circle close to Vladimir Putin: in September 2015 and in September 2016.[77] Ohr, then a United States Department of Justice official, was reported to have been in contact with the former employee of the British secret service MI6 Christopher Steele, who later compiled the incriminating dossiers on Donald Trump, and discussed cultivating Deripaska, among others.[77]
In September 2015, Ohr and Steele met with Deripaska to discuss "connections between Russian organized crime and Mr. Putin’s government, as well as other issues, according to a person familiar with the events." Deripaska laughed them off and did not agree to a second meeting.[77][78][79] Nevertheless, F.B.I. agents showed up unannounced at Deripaska's door in New York in September 2016.[77]
The attempts to turn Deripaska into an informant undertaken between 2014 and 2016 were unsuccessful, Deripaska notified the Russian authorities of the US efforts to recruit him,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleg_DeripaskaDid Rachel Maddow mention this in her report? I would guess that turning down then ratting out the FBI is where his troubles with the US started.
The fucking US are the meddlers, the interferers, the colluders,
Question authority.