he never gets to leave. of ukraine s military aid. now, what s his background that he always has to stay in vienna, might make him a better fit inside this scheme? austria. why is that? that s where he is under house he s the former executive arrest. he is a ukraine an billionaire, director of the wisconsin a favorite of the kremlin who is republican party. so maybe that s enough. a billionaire because of the that s perfect. kremlin. he is described as an upper echelon associating of russian they have got to get the real people, the career people, especially the people who know what s illegal, they have got to organized crime. he was arrested several years ago after the u.s. government get them out of the way so they requested his arrest because can instead install the million dollar inaugural donor and the they wanted him extradited to this country to face trial on a guy from the wisconsin republican party to be in charge multi billion dollar bribery of what is otherwise to be the pro
expensive lawyers that money can buy. if you got the money to spend, why not spend it on that? 2017, around the time the new york times reporting manafort s mysterious financial ties. federal prosecutors argued in court why it is so important to get their hands-on the cash. why they needed to have an extradited to the united states and why he needed to go on trial in this country and their climbs to the court in the summer of 2018 including this startling assertion from prosecutors. firtash has been identified by united states law enforcement as two upper-echelon associates of russian organized crime. their prosecution will disrupt this organized crime group.
received from the party of regions. one of the kremlin-connected oligarchs to whom manafort was indebted initially got himself sanctioned by the u.s. government which looked like it might be financially devastating for him, but alas, he was rescued from those sanctions at the last moment by republican senator mitch mcconnell of kentucky whereupon deripaska s firm somewhere found it in its heart to invest hundreds of millions of dollars building a new aluminum plant in mitch mcconnell s home state. that still leaves firtash. dmitry firtash still in vienna, still fighting extradition to the united states against these bribery charges, still fighting because he does not want to face federal prosecutors who said formally and in writing to the court that they belief hve him be an upper echelon associate of russian organized crime. in june of this year the supreme court in austria ruled dmitry firtash, indeed, could be extradited to the u.s. he still hasn t been, though. he is using his infi
manafort s mysterious financial ties to dmytri firtash and oleg deripaska, federal prosecutors were arguing in court about why it was important to get their hands on firtash, why firtash s case shouldn t be dismissed, why they needed to have him extradited to the united states, why he needed to go on trial in this country. and their claims to the court in the summer of 2017 including this startling assertion from justice department prosecutors. dmytri firtash has been identified by u.s. law enforcement as an upper echelon associate of russian organized crime. his prosecucessecution will dis this organized crime group and prevent it from taking further criminal acts within the united states. this prosecution, therefore, seems to protect this country, its commerce and its citizens from the corrupting influence and withering effects of international organized crime. so this is like a remarkable thing in american politics, right? once again, like, you re alive now. you ll always be able
to the senate judiciary committee and cnn political correspondent sara murray with us as well. what does this hire signal to you, elliott? i know dan. that is a top prosecutor and a great lawyer with a long history of building investigations. so it s clear this is not just some partisan hit job, daniel is not a hack or anything like that, is that they want to get to the truth. if the public can believe that these investigations are a quest for truth and not a partisan hit job, then they ll succeed. his background in russian organized crime, why is that significant to note? because it s very hard to get information out of foreign countries. it s very hard investigations are hard to build as a general matter. russia is a particularly thorny place because you re dealing with mutual treaties and all kinds of things like that that complicate prosecution. so i think it s very hard to get someone not tied to russia but who knows how to investigate in russia. i wouldn t get into the