laundering is to make things seem complicated, right? whenever you re following a money laundering story the money went here and th there and there was another person? that s the point. that s money laundering. the whole idea is the trail of the money is supposed to seem complicated. you re supposed to lose track of where the money is going and where it came from. that is money laundering. as a money laundering scheme, though, what was alleged in this rico lawsuit this was simple. money from putin, the russian got government that gets spent on buying proputin, prorussian government officials to run the nation of ukraine, right next door to russia, of great concern to vladamir putin. and yet they washed that money and tumbled it dry through this gas company and the gas deal, but that was just intention al -
profile of her that included her experience with money laundering and organized crime cases including investigations where she partnered with an fbi task force based in hungry which focused on eastern european organized crime. so just to recap the team here, the watergate special prosecutor and expert at flipping mob witnesses and expert in money laundering cases whose partnered extensively with an fbi task force that focuses on eastern european mob issues and a man described as the most april brilliant criminal lawyer in america. now today, according to the national law journal who nabbed this scoop today, today we learned about another eye catching lawyer added to mueller s staff. her name is is elizabeth preloegar.
they were doing with trump because that investment firm was quote closer to putin. why did you have to take the money closer to putin? tim o bryan from bloomberg news is just reporting that tonight. we got an exclusive first look at the reporting. he will be joining us in just a moment. but if his reporting proves out and between the racketeering lawsuit going ahead and the senate investigation and the financial documents as of today and the investigation robert mueller is leading as special counsel whose staff i should tell you includes the former fraud chief at the justice department who was involved in the prosecution of felix satyr for that pump and dump mob stock scheme all those years ago, if this new reporting from tim o bryan proves out about russian money pouring into trump properties and coming from sources close to putin through people known for their mob and money laundering ties, if that reporting proves out, we re left
that s obviously controversial. there is tons of litigation about that. there is also the matter that the prosecutors kept so much so secret about this case for so long. that was the point of controversy when loretta lynch moved up from the prosecutor s office to become attorney general and litigation about the secrecy about this case, as well. but now this story that has been intriguing from the very beginning, right? this story that s been an interesting wall street story, an interesting new york story, an interesting mob informant story, an interesting russia money laundering story, an interesting law enforcement story now has been already intriguing and lots of levels but now it s about to become a big national politics story because in that decade between the mob guys getting arrested, the indictment, in that decade between those guys getting picked up because of that fraud case, in that decade between those arrests, and felix sater pleading guilty to charges in the scheme, in tha
elizabeth prelogear. she comes from the solicitor general s office and there is important clerk ships on her resume. she s accomplished and well-regarded but can i point out one thing? she appears to be fluent in russian. from the national law journal today quote as an emery college under graduate, she majored in english and russian after graduating, she was a scholar in russia when she was first year at harvard law in 2006 she won a scholarship to study russian media and censorship. so if you think about the team here, watergate, mob, money laundering, criminal law, flew fluent in russian. any sense on what mueller is working on? watch this space.