Bruh. Russia is really the evil empire 
RUSSIA/РОССИЯ THREAD—ASSANGE CHRGD W/ SPYING—DJT IMPEACHED TWICE-US TREASURY SANCTS KILIMNIK AS RUSSIAN AGNT
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I told yall Trump was effective at getting his enemies out. Its a matter of time before his private twitter handle and GoFundMe are active...
But its ok. In War, theres casualties on both sides...Mueller got the Samson-option tho
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The NYTimes finally mentions MOGILEVICH AGAIN
BRUCE OHR IS A LEGENDARY RUSSIAN MAFIA HUNTER!
Bruce Ohr Fought Russian Organized Crime. Now He’s a Target of Trump.
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The longtime Justice Department official Bruce G. Ohr, center, has come under fire from President Trump and his allies.CreditCreditLucía Godínez/Agencia El Universal, via Associated Press
By Adam Goldman and Katie Benner
- Aug. 27, 2018
But Mr. Ohr is far from corrupt, friends and former colleagues said. An experienced law enforcement official who spent years battling Russian organized crime, he developed a deep understanding of that dangerous underworld, they said, including raising concerns about at least one oligarch whose name has resurfaced amid the scrutiny of contacts between Trump associates and Russia.
As part of this work, Mr. Ohr, 56, met a British spy who specialized in Russia, Christopher Steele, and the two men developed a bond based on their shared expertise. Mr. Steele went on to investigate ties between Mr. Trump and Russia for the same research firm, Fusion GPS, where Mr. Ohr’s wife, Nellie, worked as a contractor.
Those connections have upended Mr. Ohr’s once relatively anonymous life, dragging him into the maelstrom of the Russia investigation. His meetings with Mr. Steele, who compiled a dossier of salacious, unverified material about Mr. Trump and was an F.B.I. informant, have prompted the president and his allies, armed with little evidence, to cast Mr. Ohr and his wife as villains, part of a pro-Clinton cabal out to destroy the president.
More consequently, Justice Department officials transferred Mr. Ohr, an associate deputy attorney general, to a less powerful post last year after learning about his contacts with Mr. Steele and the scope of his wife’s work. If he loses his security clearance, which is under review along with those of former senior national security officials viewed by Mr. Trump as political enemies, he would probably be forced to leave federal law enforcement after nearly three decades.
“For him to be in the Justice Department, and to be doing what he did, that is a disgrace,” Mr. Trump said of Mr. Ohr earlier this month to reporters.
On Tuesday, Mr. Ohr is to appear before a closed hearing of the House Judiciary and House Oversight committees, jointly investigating F.B.I. and Justice Department activities related to the 2016 election. Republicans are likely to ask Mr. Ohr why he met with Mr. Steele even after the F.B.I. terminated its relationship with Mr. Steele for speaking to the media and who approved the meetings.
Those who know Mr. Ohr seem perplexed that the president has singled him out. Co-workers and former associates describe him as a scrupulous government official who cares deeply about the Justice Department.
“He’s a small player in a bigger, broader stage here,” said Chris Swecker, a former senior F.B.I. official who worked with Mr. Ohr. “I feel bad for him. I think he is well intentioned. I view him as someone who would never do anything malicious.”
Mr. Ohr’s lawyer, Joshua Berman, declined to comment for this article.
A graduate of Harvard Law School, Mr. Ohr joined the Justice Department in 1991 from a law firm in San Francisco. As a federal prosecutor in Manhattan, he twice won top awards and rose to be chief of the district’s violent gangs unit.
He had a knack for managing people and pushing cases forward, former associates said, which helped propel him to a job at the Justice Department in Washington in 1999 as the head of the organized crime and racketeering section. He provided the F.B.I. with resources to prosecute cases and navigated relationships with the intelligence community, brokering disputes and earning the respect of the F.B.I. and prosecutors.
As oligarchs and gangs flourished in Eurasia after the fall of the Soviet Union, Mr. Ohr, his deputies, the F.B.I. and federal prosecutors tackled Russian crime syndicates, said J. Kenneth Lowrie, a former federal prosecutor who was Mr. Ohr’s longtime deputy.
“Until 9/11, organized crime was one of the main priority criminal programs at the Justice Department,” said Mr. Lowrie, who retired in 2008. “Russian organized crime was a focus. Bruce knew a lot of the Russia stuff and traveled there.”
Mr. Ohr’s section supported the 2000 prosecution of Pavlo Lazarenko, the former prime minister of Ukraine, who was convicted of money laundering, wire fraud and extortion in a case brought by the office of the United States attorney in San Francisco at the time, Robert S. Mueller III, who is now the special counsel.
Also under Mr. Ohr’s oversight, a Russian crime boss, Semion Mogilevich, was indicted in 2003 on charges of defrauding a company outside of Philadelphia out of $150 million. The case made headlines and laid the groundwork for Justice Department efforts to combat Russian organized crime overseas.
When Mr. Mogilevich’s lawyer tried to broker a deal, the F.B.I. refused, holding out for his surrender. Meeting with his lawyer, Mr. Ohr held firm as well, backing the F.B.I., according to a former agent.
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Christopher Steele, the former British spy and F.B.I. informant, compiled a dossier that contained salacious material about the president.CreditVictoria Jones/Press Association, via Associated Press
“Occasionally you run across people from the Justice Department who have an air of superiority toward agents, and Bruce had none of that,” Mr. Swecker said. “He was just the opposite. He was well liked at the F.B.I. and fought for their cases.”
Mr. Ohr was a manager, not a litigator, who built bridges with law enforcement agencies around the world, former Justice Department officials said. He sent top deputies to Hungary to root out the nascent Russian mob in the early 2000s. F.B.I. agents viewed the commitment as a sign of his seriousness about combating Russian organized crime.
In 2006, Mr. Ohr was part of a group of government officials who revoked the visa of Oleg Deripaska, a Russian billionaire and aluminum magnate. Officials were concerned that Mr. Deripaska might try to come to the United States to launder illicit profits through real estate, a former law enforcement official said.
Mr. Deripaska, a close ally of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, has been tied to the former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who was convicted last week of tax and bank fraud. In 2016, Mr. Manafort offered private campaign briefings to Mr. Deripaska, raising concerns about the prospect of Russians wielding influence inside the White House. In April, the United States imposed sanctions on Mr. Deripaska.
In 2007, Mr. Ohr met Mr. Steele, who was still with MI-6, the British spy service, according to a former senior American law enforcement official who knows both men. Both governments approved their contacts, the former official said.
Mr. Ohr moved on to other senior jobs, starting in 2010 as counsel for international relations in the Justice Department’s transnational organized crime and international affairs section, where he bolstered partnerships with foreign law enforcement agencies. In 2014, he became the director of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces, distributing grant money to bolster prosecutorial work.
He stayed in touch with Mr. Steele, meeting him in Rome in 2014 and in Washington in 2015.
For the F.B.I., their relationship would come in handy. A longtime informant who provided valuable tips on corruption, Mr. Steele violated his confidentiality agreement with the F.B.I. when he disclosed to a reporter in the months before the 2016 election that he had been working with the bureau. He had expressed frustration that his information about Mr. Trump, gathered for Fusion GPS, the research firm that hired him on behalf of Democrats to research the candidate, had gone seemingly nowhere in the F.B.I.
In early November 2016, the agent handling Mr. Steele told him not to obtain intelligence “on behalf of the F.B.I.”
That did not stop F.B.I. agents from collecting coveted information from Mr. Steele. While the F.B.I. could no longer considered him a confidential informant, former officials said, agents eager to assess the dossier as part of their counterintelligence investigation into links between Trump associates and Russia’s election interference could still document what he was telling a third party — Mr. Ohr.
And when Mr. Ohr approached the F.B.I. about his relationship with Mr. Steele, bureau officials saw an opportunity.
Mr. Ohr met with Mr. Steele almost a dozen times beginning in late 2016 through May 2017, according to congressional officials. F.B.I. agents interviewed Mr. Ohr after the meetings and documented the information.
Republicans have seized on the meetings. Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa and the head of the Senate Judiciary Committee, asked the Justice Department to declassify the F.B.I.’s reports on them. “It seems like he is a key player,” Representative Jim Jordan, Republican of Ohio and a staunch supporter of the president, told Fox News this month.
But the arrangement was not unusual, former law enforcement officials said. Senior F.B.I. officials were aware of the Steele meetings and those involved followed internal guidelines, a former official said.
Mr. Ohr’s contacts with Mr. Steele were one small part of a broader effort to determine whether the allegations in the dossier were true, a former official said. The F.B.I. also did not have all the reports that Mr. Steele had produced and agents were keen to get them.
Conservatives have also targeted Ms. Ohr, whose contract work at Fusion GPS involved monitoring Russian news media and compiling connections between Mr. Trump and Russia from public documents. She did not work on the dossier, according to a person familiar with her work for GPS.
Mr. Ohr still has a job at the Justice Department, though he is functionally no longer a manager. It is unclear how long that will last. Mr. Trump has called for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to fire Mr. Ohr.
“It seems that Bruce had two sins: He met with Chris Steele and his wife worked for Fusion GPS. None of that seems wrong to me,” Mr. Lowrie said. “Bruce is a straight arrow. He was totally nonpartisan, as we all were expected” to be.
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They knew Deripaska was laundering russian money via real estate...remember this sale of that decrepit florida mansion from Dmitry Rybolovlev? 
'Follow the money': Senator probes Trump's $95 million mansion sale
'Follow the money': Senator probes Trump's $95 million mansion sale
ExodusNirvana
Change is inevitable...
I'm conflicted about McCain
He is by all accounts "a hero" for flying into Nam over that area, getting shot down, getting tortured, refusing to get sent home until his men were. He's a soldier. Can't fault a soldier for following orders even if the Vietnam War was wrong.
He said that the NFL players have their right to kneel or not stand during the anthem
He has called out Trump and the rest of his party for spitting on what this country stands for in terms of the way one carries themselves and exercises the duties of the office of POTUS
But...his party is and continues to be the destruction of this country from the inside out. He fed into that Acorn bullshyt a few years back. He is responsible for Sarah Palin being on the national stage, which is what helped prop up this Tea Party bullshyt, which helped bring Trump to the WH.
He is by all accounts "a hero" for flying into Nam over that area, getting shot down, getting tortured, refusing to get sent home until his men were. He's a soldier. Can't fault a soldier for following orders even if the Vietnam War was wrong.
He said that the NFL players have their right to kneel or not stand during the anthem
He has called out Trump and the rest of his party for spitting on what this country stands for in terms of the way one carries themselves and exercises the duties of the office of POTUS
But...his party is and continues to be the destruction of this country from the inside out. He fed into that Acorn bullshyt a few years back. He is responsible for Sarah Palin being on the national stage, which is what helped prop up this Tea Party bullshyt, which helped bring Trump to the WH.
He's a republican in the sense that if you vote democrat, you ultimately see what he is, you still vote democrat.
He's why I vote for Democrats. He's the best they had to offer and it was never enough.
OG's speaking out
If trump wins in 2020, people really might leave the country. Like. For real this time.
Poetical Poltergeist
Precise and cold hearted
There no way he wins unless something major happens like the dems not winning in Nov.
Hood Critic
The Power Circle
Or if he is able to start a war/conflict. His 180 on NK is so obvious.
Poetical Poltergeist
Precise and cold hearted
Iran too. Lordy drop those tapes!
Gonna be funny to hear him backpeddle on NK. He's blaming China already. Repubs will just follow along like a lost puppy.
Mitchell Lama is a NYC subsidiy program that keeps rents low in some NYC Apartments/Coops..
When I was reading the article about how Trump was finagling the laws for his high rise apartments with the details about keepin some apartments for low/moderate income families it made me think of the Mitchell’s Lama program that I was lucky enough to be raised in.
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