Lawyer Trump Hired For Russia Investigation Works For Russian Bank
The Lawyer Donald Trump Hired To Defend Him In The Russia Investigation Has A Major Russia Connection.
This week, Donald Trump officially hired a lawyer to defend him in the Russia investigation. Trump hired Marc Kasowitz, who has represented Trump before – including in the Trump University fraud case.
But Trump’s lawyer has a major connection to Russia himself. Kasowitz represents OJSC Sberbank. The state-run bank in Russia is currently in US federal court in a case that has been called a “textbook case of Russian corporate raiding.”
According to a report by Buzzfeed News, “The Sberbank lawsuit was filed in late November in the Southern District of New York and unsealed in January. The complaint claims that a Russian company, P-Granit, was the subject of a hostile takeover by its rivals starting in 2009. By using a series of shell companies and “straw men,” the rivals allegedly began to take control of P-Granit shares and “trapped” the firm’s owner as it tried to refinance loans with Sberbank.”
This new Russia connection is just the latest in what seems to be an endless number connections that Trump and his associates have to Russia.
