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Bill Browder, an American investor, whose business in post-Soviet Russia ran afoul of Putin, believes Republican congressman Rohrabacher, and Libertarian Rand Paul, have both been compromised by Russia.
In 2016, Dana Rohrabacher flew to Moscow for a meeting with Russia’s deputy general prosecutor. We he returned to D.C., the California Republican lobbied to take an expanded version of the Magnitsky Act, a bipartisan law that allows the US to sanction Russan human rights offenders, OFF the congressional agenda. The bill was named in honor of Sergei Magnitsky, Browder’s lawyer, who died in 2009 in a Moscow prison. (Browder successfully lobbied Congress to pass the Magnitsky Act in 2012.)
Rohrabacher also returned from Russia with a propaganda film he screened for colleagues in his office. Rohrabacher’s attempt to block the expanded bill failed.
“There is absolutely no reason why any member of Congress would do this … unless there was something else going on,” Browder said. “Somehow the Russians have got damaging information on Dana Rohrabacher, or that they’ve found some way of financing him in such a way that they’ve influenced his behavior.”
Rohrabacher isn’t the only congressman Browder suspects is in Putin’s pocket.
“The other person I am very suspicious about is Rand Paul,” Browder said, noting that the Kentucky Republican senator traveled to Moscow in August and a week later called on Trump to lift sanctions on a pair of Russian lawmakers who are on the so-called Magnitsky list.
“Why would he do that? The people of Kentucky don’t want that to happen,” Browder said. “It makes no sense to me why a U.S. politician under the circumstances right now would be trying to loosen sanctions on Russia.”
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