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THREAD: Emin Agalarov: The Perfect "Cut-Out" between Putin & TrumpThe thread includes a couple meetings & interactions that, to my knowledge, are previously unreported. Some of the instances are lesser known & I roped in the well known meetings for context. Please read & share.
Know/Unknown: Times & Places
NYC - Feb 1-2, 2013
Miss Universe NYC - Mar 7, 2013
Las Vegas - Jun 15-17, 2013
Trump Tower - Oct 8, 2013
Moscow - Nov 8-11, 2013
Moscow - Feb 1-5, 2014
Miami - Mar, 8-9 2014
Baku - Oct 21-23, 2014
Trump Tower - Feb, 2, 2015
Trump Tower - May 20, 20152/ NYC - Feb 1-2, 2013: Pop stars can move all over the world without raising suspicion. Emin was constantly in & out of NY, not only for his music career, but also because his mother & sister live nearby in Tenafly, NJ. Here he is meeting with Rudy Giuliani. Who introduced them?
3/ Miss Universe NYC - Mar 07, 2013: Emin flew into New York on March 2nd. March 7th, Emin met with Rob Goldstone at the Miss Universe Org building in NY, a block away from Trump Tower. They likely negotiated sums & logistics ahead of the June 2013, Miss USA, Las Vegas meeting.
4/ Las Vegas - Jun 15-17, 2013: Miss USA beauty pageant in Las Vegas. In this meeting, the group hashed out the remaining details for the Miss Universe Moscow, future deals & a quid pro quo. ($$$) Emin & Aras Agalarov, Donald Trump, Rob Goldstone, Michael Cohen & Ike Kaveladze.
5/ October 8, 2013: Emin Agalarov & Roman Beniaminov parked at 57th & 6th. They visited Trump Tower (57th & 5th) And/Or The Miss Universe Organization Building (56th & 6th). Roman is Emin's childhood friend, they went to Tenafly High School in NJ & Roman works for Crocus Group.
6/ Ignoring the Occam's Razor aspect of it for moment, I asked the question: Could Emin have been there recording a song or visiting his music label? In fact, he had made those rounds prior to the 8th, from Oct 3-7, 2013, but both locations were 30+ blocks away, downtown.
7/ Scott Balber, Ike Kaveladze’s attorney, told @thedailybeast that Roman Beniaminov told Kaveladze that he heard Rob Goldstone—Emin’s music manager—discuss “dirt” on Hillary Clinton before the June 9 2016 Trump Tower meeting. Both men work at Crocus Group
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Roman Beniaminov, a Low-Profile Real Estate Exec Turned Pop Star Manager, Knew About Russia’s ‘Dirt’ on HillaryInvestigators now may have another person to talk to about that infamous Trump Tower meeting.BETSY WOODRUFF
11.20.17 4:12 PM ET
Days before the infamous Trump Tower meeting in June 2016, a low-profile real estate figure with ties to powerful Russians alerted a meeting participant that the topic of “dirt” on Hillary Clinton could come up, The Daily Beast has learned.
That figure, Roman Beniaminov, didn’t attend the meeting himself. But he had close ties to several figures in and around it, including Emin Agalarov, the Azeri-Russian pop star who helped set up that Trump Tower confab and whose father is an ally of Vladimir Putin.
Ike Kaveladze was one of the participants in the June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower between Jared Kushner, Paul Manafort, Donald Trump Jr., and Kremlin-connected attorney Natalia Vesilnitskaya. Kaveladze told congressional investigators that when he was first invited to participate, he was under the impression that he would just be there as a translator and that the meeting would involve discussion of Magnitsky Act sanctions.
Scott Balber, Kaveladze’s attorney, told The Daily Beast that before Kaveladze headed from Los Angeles to New York for the meeting, he saw an email noting that Kushner, Manafort, and Trump Jr. would all be involved. He thought it would be odd for them to attend the meeting, so he called Beniaminov before heading to New York. Both Beniaminov and Kaveladze have worked with the Agalarov’s real estate development company, the Crocus Group.
Balber said that Beniaminov told Kaveladze that he heard Rob Goldstone— Emin Agalarov’s music manager—discuss “dirt” on Hillary Clinton. It’s never become completely clear what kind of “dirt” the Russians were talking about.
According to Balber, Beniaminov was the only person to give Kaveladze any information about the meeting’s purpose.
“That was the only data point Ike had, which was inconsistent with everything else he had heard, which was that the meeting was about the Magnitsky Act,” Balber said.
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In all of the discussion about the infamous Trump Tower meeting, Beniaminov’s name has rarely, if ever, come up. So his alleged role in informing Kaveladze about the plans suggests he may be yet another important player who could have relevant information for the various, ongoing investigations.
Beniaminov could not be reached for comment.
Beniaminov went to Tenafly High School in Bergen County, New Jersey, with Emin Agalarov, according to NorthJersey.com. Emin posted a picture of the two together in high school on Facebook last December.
In the years since then, he was Emin’s close associate. He worked with Emin to promote his music, as he detailed in numerous tweets. And this past May, Emin thanked him on Instagram for helping arrange a concert at the Lincoln Center.
Beniaminov’s Facebook page is private, but The Daily Beast reviewed screenshots from this summer where he said he used to be Emin’s general manager. The same screenshot showed he listed the Crocus Group as his most recent employer. Aras Agalarov—Emin’s billionaire father—helms the company.
Balber said it appears Beniaminov is still working with Emin to promote his music career, and that he was doing so at the time of the Trump Tower meeting.
Trump’s connections to the Agalarovs and to Crocus Group are well-documented. When Trump held the Miss Universe pageant in Moscow in 2013, it was hosted at the Crocus City Hall, which Aras Agalarov owns.
Olivia Culpo, who was Miss Universe in 2012, appeared with Aras and Emin Agalarov—as well as Donald Trump—at the 2013 Miss USA pageant in Las Vegas, as a Getty photo documents. She also attended the U.S. premiere of one of Emin’s pop songs, along with Trump.
Culpo’s representative did not respond to a request for comment.
The Agalarovs have made no secret of their fondness for Trump. In an interview on the Crocus Group website, published Nov. 13, 2013, Aras Agalarov said he was considering going into business with the future U.S. president.
“We discussed our joint projects right before our interview,” he said. “We have just shared our views on such projects and he said they were quite interesting.”
“We will complete one project and then go down to the next one,” Emin added. “We may theoretically consider a possibility of building a Trump Tower as one of our sky-scrapers.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/roman-ben ... on-hillary
8/ Moscow - Nov 8-11, 2013: At this point, Trump & the Agalarovs were, of course, partners for Miss Universe Moscow. But, Trump went out of his way to be in Emin's Music Video before the pageant & press events began. They were close & Trump made it a point to keep it that way.
9/ Miss Universe Moscow was rife with the Russian mob & cut-outs, too many to list but here's a few: Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov, Herman Gref, Rotem Rosen, Alex Sapir, Tamir Sapir, Bob Van Ronkel, Chuck LaBella, Vladimir Kozhin, Artem Kylushin, Philipp Kirkorov & others listed below.
10/ Moscow - Nov 8-11, 2013: It's alleged that Trump Skyped/Telephoned with Putin to solidify plans for: Trump Tower Moscow & Putin's assistance towards his Presidency. In attendance: Emin Agalarov, Yulya Alferova, Keith Schiller, Phil Ruffin.
(Woman in the 4th picture? Graff?)
11/ Moscow - Feb 1-5, 2014: Ivanka was in St Petersburg on Feb 1st, she only spent the day before leaving for Moscow on the 2nd. She met up with Emin Agalarov on Feb 4th at Crocus Group. Notably, Ivanka was accompanied by both Wendy Deng & Dasha Zhukova. (Roman Abramovich's wife)
12/ Miami - Mar, 8-9 2014: A month after Ivanka's Moscow trip, Emin Agalarov performed at the 2014 WGC-Cadillac Championship golf tournament, held at Trump National Doral near Miami, FL. Emin, Trump & Ivanka were all in attendance. Perhaps another effort by Trump to curry favor.
13/ Bonus Round: On May 14, 2014, we find Emin Agalarov back in New York, outside Rockafeller Center, only 6 Blocks from Trump Tower. As I mentioned earlier, Emin was frequently in New York, but given the recent string of events & his proximity to Trump Tower, I found it notable.
14/ Baku, Azerbaijan - Oct 21-23, 2014: Although I cannot confirm that there was a meeting, we know that Ivanka Trump & Emin Agalarov were both in "Old City,"(A part of Baku, Azerbaijan) at the same time. Emin had seen Ivanka in Miami & toured Moscow with her earlier in the year.
15/ Baku, Azerbaijan - Oct 21-23, 2014: Here, Emin is pictured with his grandmother in Old City, Baku, where she lived. On the 23rd, Emin is pictured in Moscow's streets where he remarks "Freezing Moscow," this suggests confirmation that he had just returned from Baku that day.
16/ Trump Tower - Feb, 2, 2015: Emin Agalarov visited Trump Tower in NY. Apparently, Russians involved in this conspiracy lacked social media discipline, just like us.
Cambridge Analytica started FB data harvesting with GSR in May 2014 & the social media weapon was nearly ready.
17/ Trump Tower - May 20, 2015: Emin Agalarov visited Trump Tower in NY. It's true that a business relationship existed between Trump & Crocus Group with regard to Trump Tower Moscow but we now know these meetings were more than that, they were planning something, something big.
18/ On Tuesday, June 16, 2015, less than a month after Emin Agalarov & Donald Trump's meeting in Trump Tower, Donald Trump gives a speech & announces that he's going to run for President of the United States.
Of course, weak & incoherent words on Russia.
http://time.com/3923128/donald-trump-an ... nt-speech/ …
19/ September 2015. The FBI contacts the Democratic National Committee's help desk, cautioning the IT department that at least one computer has been compromised by Russian hackers. A technician scans the system and does not find anything suspicious.
20/ On Sept 18, 2015, Aras Agalarov does a tabloid interview. Trump's cultivation by a charismatic pop star is nearly complete.
"Emin & Mr. Trump have a good relationship, I have a good relationship."
"And Emin had seen him *recently*, there in America."
https://www.kp.ru/daily/26435.5/3306339/ …
22/ On Sept 21, 2015, Hugh Hewitt interviews Trump, he brings up MU2013:
"I was with the top level people, both oligarchs & generals, & top of the government people. I can't go further than that, but I will tell you that I met the top people & the relationship was extraordinary."
23/ In April 2016, @GeorgePapa19 meets with Joseph Mifsud who told him about Russia's cache of emails.
May 2016, George Papadopoulos told Australian diplomat, Alexander Downer, during a meeting in London, that Russia had thousands of emails that would embarrass @HillaryClinton.
23/ On June 3, 2016, Rob Goldstone emailed Donald Trump Jr, offering up incriminating information on Hillary Clinton.
"This is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr Trump"
"If it's what you say, I love it."
24/ On June 9, 2016, the infamous Trump Tower meeting, discussing HRC dirt & sanctions. Attendees included Donald Trump Jr, Natalia Veselnitskaya (SVR), Rinat Akhmetshin (GRU), Anatoli Samochornov, Ike Kaveladze(Crocus), Paul Manafort, Jared Kushner & Rob Goldstone.(Emin's Proxy)
25/ June 12, 2016, during an interview on British television, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says that the website has obtained & will publish a batch of Clinton emails.
Events leading up to & including the June 9, 2016 meeting, sealed the treason deal.
26/ It can be seen that Emin Agalarov played a key role in the hand holding & cultivating of Donald Trump. However, there wasn’t a huge amount Trump could do to say no. Trump knows what Putin has on him & it’s bad, real bad. @JohnBrennan knows & Robert Mueller, definitely knows.