15 July, 2017
Akhmetshin served in the Soviet military and is suspected of having ties to Russian intelligence. The contents seem similar to those described by Akhmetshin in Friday's interview.
One of the lawyers representing President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner in the ongoing Russian Federation investigation is abandoning the case, according to Yahoo News.
Akhmetshin's role, or the reason why he would be included in the meeting, is not stated in the emails. CNN has reached out to Akhmetshin for comment.
Russian Federation expected USA officials to set out proposals aimed at resolving the issue at that meeting, she added. Though NBC did not reveal the Russian lobbyist's name, the Associated Press confirmed with Rinat Akhmetshin that he was at the meeting, along with a Russian translator.
Putin told reporters earlier this month that Trump appeared to agree with Moscow's position that it did not interfere in last year's election during their meeting at G20. In October, the US intelligence community said it was confident the Russian government was behind the cyber-hacking campaign.
But Trump's former campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, denies any collusion.
The agencies said earlier this year that Russian Federation sought to help Trump win the election by hacking private emails from Democratic Party officials and disseminating false information online.
The White House has continued to deal with the fallout from the meeting since its existence was first reported six days ago. Cobb's role is separate from Trump's outside legal team, led by NY lawyer Marc Kasowitz.
That case was dropped. You released the emails only after being informed that The New York Times was about to do so.
The Kremlin has often complained about the act.
On Friday, Akhmetshin told The Washington Post that he was on his own in NY when he got a phone call from Veselnitskaya. He told AP that he didn't think the meeting was of any significance. The newspaper reported yesterday, citing unnamed people familiar with the matter, that Manafort disclosed the meeting to congressional investigators questioning his foreign contacts.
Schiff called "deeply disturbing" the emergence this week of Akhmetshin, who told AP he was "loosely part of Russian counterintelligence" when he was in the Soviet Army, though Trump Jr. never mentioned or acknowledged he was at the meeting.
Donald Trump Jr. claimed the meeting was about Russia's ban on adoptions by USA families. It was not immediately clear if the person he referred to was Akhmetshin. Although Trump Jr. has insisted that Vesenikstaya mainly wanted to talk about Russian adoptions, Akhmetshin said she brought a folder with information about an American hedge fund operating in Russia that she believed was funneling money to the Democratic National Committee.
