Escort Says Audio Recordings Prove Russian Meddling in U.S. Election
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[url]https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/05/world/asia/nastya-rybka-trump-putin.html[/url]
[quote]BANGKOK — A Belarusian escort with close ties to a powerful Russian oligarch said from behind bars in Bangkok on Monday that she had more than 16 hours of audio recordings that could help shed light on Russian meddling in United States elections.
The escort, Anastasia Vashukevich, said she would hand over the recordings if the United States granted her asylum. She faces criminal charges and deportation to Belarus after coming under suspicion of working in Thailand without a visa at a sex-training seminar in the city of Pattaya.
Ms. Vashukevich, who described herself as close to the Russian aluminum tycoon Oleg V. Deripaska, said that audio recordings she made in August 2016 included discussions he had about the United States presidential election with people she declined to identify.
Mr. Deripaska, a billionaire with close ties to Russia’s president, Vladimir V. Putin, also has business ties to Paul J. Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman. Mr. Manafort is under investigation by Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel looking into the campaign’s connections to Russia.
[B]“If America gives me protection, I will tell everything I know,” Ms. Vashukevich said on Monday. “I am afraid to go back to Russia. Some strange things can happen.”[/B][/quote]
Hope the CIA is on this.
Sounds like it could also be bullshit and she just wanna get out
[QUOTE=Ignhelper;53178767]Sounds like it could also be bullshit and she just wanna get out[/QUOTE]
Wouldn't her lying mean she would just end up getting jailed here or deported back? Seems like too big of a risk.
If she is telling the truth it could be vital evidence. Getting her would be worth it just in case. If she is being stupid and lying about it she should be ready to face the consequences.
If she's lying, she'll get deported back and conveniently ~[I]disappear[/I]~
If that is true, it is absolutely incredible, and we must secure that evidence by any possible means. However, as much as I'd like it to be true, I am still skeptical. She did potentially have the access to acquire this kind of evidence, but if she had this I cannot imagine how she could still be alive, especially while locked in a cell in Bangkok. Unless we already have agents on her cell, she's a sitting duck, and Putin has proven himself more than willing to eliminate those who are inconvenient to his aims.
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