russian lawmaker pressing this legal case against him, including, he mounted a campaign, a multifaceted campaign to try to block that fugitive lawmaker guy from getting asylum in the united states. and in order to establish that objective, he hired a very special kind of d.c. op tiff. he hired a nationalized u.s. citizen, a guy with extensive ties to russian intelligence and he was well known for being an effective pro-putin, pro-kremlin fixer and lobbyist in d.c. he was hired to run a smear campaign against the russian lawmaker who fled to the united states. this fixer guy got hired to do the work. he did the work. when it came time to get paid for the work, the fixer guy later admitted in court that the way he got paid for the job was that he was handed bags of hundred dollar bills, $70,000 or
these lawyers were pursuing in court and who was funding that smear campaign against their client back in the united states. so that was 2011. interesting case. then it happened again couple years later, that russian-born kremlin-friendly d.c. fixer with tie to russian intelligence, the guy who ran the smear campaign that included the sophisticated hacking and stealing operation on the guys lawyers computers. that same fixer guy in d.c. turned up working for another russian oligarch close to vladimir putin in 2013. this new oligarch, he owned a mining company that was head quartered in europe and he hired the russian born d.c. fixer guy to go after a rival company in his industry. he hired the fixer guy to go after a mining company called imr head quartered in switzerland. and sure enough they got hacked too.
$80,000 at a time in a bag. nice work if you can get it. now around the same time the fugitive russian lawmaker is both trying to get asylum in the united states, trying to defend himself from this cash money smear campaign as being paid for by the guy who he says stole all of his money back in russia and he s pursuing his legal case against that guy to try to get all of his money back. and around the time that the smear campaign was starting up against him led by this russian born d.c. fixer guy, his lawyers wi with, who were working on his original case against the oligarch guy, their computers got hack pd. lawyers were based in london. they were sent suspicious e-mails that contained spyware were malware. he was meant to infiltrate their computers. luckily the e-mails looked suspicious enough to the lawyers that they called in help and took steps to protect themselves. they tried first to find out who