https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...ory.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.193f479bd096 Conservative writer Jerome Corsi says Mueller has summoned his stepson to testify before grand jury As part of their investigation, Mueller’s prosecutors have sought information about emails from 2016 that Corsi deleted from his computer, including exchanges with Stone, according to draft court documents that Corsi released last year. In Monday’s interview, Corsi said that Mueller’s investigators appeared focused on text messages he and Stettner exchanged in which Stettner said that a computer that had sat on Corsi’s desk had been “scrubbed,” an apparent reference to the deletion. https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/14/politics/trump-interview-mueller-request/index.html Trump's legal team rebuffed request for Mueller interview in recent weeks (CNN)President Donald Trump's legal team rebuffed special counsel Robert Mueller's request in recent weeks for an in-person session with Trump to ask follow-up questions. The request was made after Trump's team submitted written answers to a limited number of questions from Mueller's team focusing on before Trump was in office.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/se...cconnell-trump-on-russia-sanctions-resolution Senate Republicans rebuke McConnell, Trump on Russia sanctions resolution The Republican-controlled Senate voted 57 to 42 against the attempt by McConnell, R-Ky., to table the resolution crafted by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. The Republicans who defied McConnell on the procedural vote were Sens. Joe Kennedy, Susan Collins, Marco Rubio, John Boozman, Tom Cotton, Steve Daines, Cory Gardner, Josh Hawley, Ben Sasse, Martha McSally and Jerry Moran.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/15/politics/mueller-kilimnik-manafort/index.html Mueller confirms Kilimnik a focus of grand jury investigation Washington (CNN)Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort spoke to a federal grand jury last fall about his communications with Konstantin Kilimnik, including regarding an in-person meeting with the Russian associate and an email with him, special counsel Robert Mueller revealed Tuesday. The 31-page filing gives an unprecedented window into Mueller's work with the grand jury, which is typically secret. It's also the first confirmation from prosecutors that Kilimnik is still central to the grand jury's efforts. Based on recent filings from Mueller's team, Kilimnik appears to be at the heart of pieces of Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. The special counsel kept more details about the meeting secret in its Tuesday filing, such as what the in-person meeting was about and when it took place. An accompanying document with about 70 exhibits is also mostly redacted. Mueller's team has been redacting information in its recent court filings to protect other individuals and to keep secret its ongoing investigations, of which there are multiple still in the works. But the special counsel has not redacted Kilimnik's name. Mueller also revealed Tuesday that Manafort communicated with Kilimnik beginning on August 2, 2016.
https://www.axios.com/trump-told-co...wer-fb2b1c98-9773-41c7-b350-56bcc30be972.html Buzzfeed: Trump told Cohen to lie to Congress about Moscow tower https://slate.com/news-and-politics...n-trump-obstruction-lie-congress-mueller.html President Trump personally directed Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about the extent of his negotiations to build Trump Tower Moscow, BuzzFeed News reported Thursday, a revelation that could put Trump in serious legal jeopardy for obstruction of justice. BuzzFeed spoke to two federal law enforcement officials with knowledge of the Mueller investigation that said Cohen told the special counsel that, after the election, Trump instructed Cohen to lie to in his testimony before Congress about how long the tower project negotiations went on, which Cohen did, in order to minimize the links between the development project and the president. from BuzzFeed: Trump also supported a plan, set up by Cohen, to visit Russia during the presidential campaign, in order to personally meet President Vladimir Putin and jump-start the tower negotiations. “Make it happen,” the sources said Trump told Cohen. And even as Trump told the public he had no business deals with Russia, the sources said Trump and his children, Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr., received regular, detailed updates about the real estate development from Cohen, whom they put in charge of the project.
https://abcnews.go.com/beta-story-c...rump-russia-arrested-moscow/story?id=60451921 'Sex trainer' who claimed to have information on Trump and Russia arrested in Moscow An Instagram model and self-described “sex trainer” from Belarus, who last year drew international attention with unsubstantiated claims to have recordings relevant to the Russian electioninterference investigation, has been arrested at a Moscow airport on prostitution charges after she was deported from Thailand. Anastasia Vashukevich, better known by her online persona Nastya Rybka, was drawn into the Trump-Russia saga in 2018 after Instagram videos surfaced of her aboard a yacht with Oleg Deripaska, a Kremlin-connected Russian oligarch with long-standing business ties to Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort. After Vashukevich was arrested in Thailand last year on work permit violations, she claimed to have recordings relating to Russia and the 2016 election, and promised to hand information over to the FBI if the agency would guarantee her safety.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/21/us/politics/oleg-deripaska-russian-sanctions.html Deripaska and Allies Could Benefit From Sanctions Deal, Document Shows WASHINGTON — When the Trump administration announced last month that it was lifting sanctions against a trio of companies controlled by an influential Russian oligarch, it cast the move as tough on Russia and on the oligarch, arguing that he had to make painful concessions to get the sanctions lifted. But a binding confidential document signed by both sides suggests that the agreement the administration negotiated with the companies controlled by the oligarch, Oleg V. Deripaska, may have been less punitive than advertised. The deal contains provisions that free him from hundreds of millions of dollars in debt while leaving him and his allies with majority ownership of his most important company, the document shows.