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  11. Lachlan Markay, “Accused Russian Intel Asset Teamed Up with GOP Operative,” Daily Beast, April 4, 2018, https://www.thedailybeast.com/accused-russian-intel-asset-teamed-up-with-gop-operative-3.

  12. Tom Topousis, “Rudy Donor Linked to Russian Mob,” New York Post, December 22, 1999, http://nypost.com/1999/12/22/rudy-donor-linked-to-russian-mob/.

  13. David B. Green, “Who Is Lev Leviev, the Israeli Billionaire with Ties to Jared Kushner and Putin,” Haaretz, July 25, 2017, https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/who-is-the-israeli-billionaire-with-ties-to-kushner-and-putin-1.5435007.

  14. Anna Nemtsova, “Trump’s Rep with Russian Gambling Bosses,” Daily Beast, November 30, 2016, https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-rep-with-russian-gambling-bosses.

  15. Jeff Horwitz and Chad Day, “AP Exclusive: Before Trump Job, Manafort Worked to Aid Putin,” Associated Press, March 22, 2017, https://apnews.com/122ae0b5848345faa88108a03de40c5a.

  16. James S. Henry, “The Curious World of Donald Trump’s Private Russian Connections,” American Interest, December 19, 2016, https://www.the-american-interest.com/2016/12/19/the-curious-world-of-donald-trumps-private-russian-connections/.

  17. Caleb Melby and Keri Geiger, “Behind Trump’s Russia Romance, There’s a Tower Full of Oligarchs,” Bloomberg Businessweek, March 16, 2017, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017–03–16/behind-trump-s-russia-romance-there-s-a-tower-full-of-oligarchs.

  18. Bloomberg News, “Trump Hotel Toronto Building Set to Be Sold After Developer Defaults,” Financial Post, October 27, 2016, http://business.financialpost.com/news/property-post/trump-hotel-toronto-building-set-to-be-sold-after-developer-defaults.

  19. K&D LLC t/a Cork v. Trump Old Post Office LLC and Donald J. Trump, Case 1:17-cv-00731-RJL, United States District Court for the District of Columbia, https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000015b-f33f-de0a-a15f-ffbf45ad0001.

  20. “Gennady Timchenko, Real-Time Net Worth as of 4/25/18,” Forbes, April 25, 2018, https://www.forbes.com/profile/gennady-timchenko/; Mark Galeotti, “Putin and His Judo Cronies,” Foreign Policy, May 15, 2014, http://foreignpolicy.com/2014/05/15/putin-and-his-judo-cronies/.

  21. Dina Khrennikova and Irina Reznik, “Ross-Linked Firm Expanded Ties to Russia’s Sibur After Sanctions,” Bloomberg, November 9, 2017, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017–11–09/ross-linked-firm-expanded-ties-to-russia-s-sibur-after-sanctions.

  22. Adam Goldman, Ben Protess, and William K. Rashbaum, “Viktor Vekselberg, Russian Billionaire, Was Questioned by Mueller’s Investigators,” New York Times, May 4, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/04/us/politics/viktor-vekselberg-mueller-investigation.html.

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  INDEX

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  Ablyazov, Mukhtar, 157–58

  Abramoff, Jack, 118–19

  Abramovich, Roman, 115–16, 117, 159, 160, 265

  Acosta, Jim, 249

  advertisements touting Trump’s foreign policy expertise, 51

  Agalarov, Aras, 199–201, 204–06, 209–10, 211–12, 229, 235–36, 242–43, 265

  Agalarov, Emin, 199–201, 204–05, 211–12, 224, 229, 235–37, 242–43, 265–66

  Agalarova, Sheila, 201

  Agron, Evsei, 32–34, 162, 266

  Akhmetov, Rinat, 185–86

  Akhmetshin, Rinat, 241–43, 266

  al-Assad, Bashar, 220

  The Alfa Group, 119, 215–16

  Aliyev, Ilham, 200

  Aliyeva, Leyla, 200

  Allen, John, 37

  All Is Clouded by Desire (Block and Weaver), 171

  al-Qaeda

  9/11 terrorist attacks, 136–37

  1998 retaliatory bombing strike against, 135

  money laundering, 135

  and Russian FSB, 175–76

  “America First” policies

  1980s ads as a precursor to, 51

  Andropov, Yuri, 13, 60n

  anti-Magnitsky law (Dima Yakovlev Bill), 238

  anti-Semitism

  legislation to reduce, 27

  Macierewicz’s statements, 221

  in the Soviet Union, 27, 115

  The Apprentice (TV show), 129–30

  Arbat International, 57–58, 59, 63, 86–87

  Arif, Tevfik, 138–41, 142–44, 158, 160, 167, 266

  Åslund, Anders, 124

  Assange, Julian, 17, 223, 251, 255

  assassinations and mysterious deaths

  Berezovsky, Boris, 174

  Gongadze, Georgy, 171–72

  Klebnikov, Paul, 18, 172–73, 177

  Litvinenko, Alexander, 18, 178–79, 213

  Magnitsky, Sergei, 18

  Politkovskaya, Anna, 18, 173–74, 177

  Project Klebnikov, 173, 177

  statistics, 18n, 172

  assets (agents of influence)

  categories of, 16

  testing to see if Trump was a potential Soviet asset, 15–16, 46–47

  Trump as an asset of Putin, 4, 166–68, 223–25

  Atlantic City, New Jersey, 48–49, 91–92, 121–22

  Averin, Alexandr, 58

  Averin, Viktor, 58–59, 88–89, 197

  Bagli, Charles, 155

  Baier, Bret, 261

  Baker, James, 182

  Balagula, Marat, 34–35, 82, 266

  Balber, Scott, 237

  Bank of New York (BONY), 87

  bankruptcy of Trump casino properties, 66, 91–92, 122n

  Bank Secrecy Act, 122

  Bannon, Stephen, 234, 254

  ban on American adoption of Russian children, 238

  Barbour, Haley, 119

  Barbour Griffith & Rogers, 119, 215–16

  Barnum, P.T., 228–29

  Barrack, Tom, 232–33

  Barrett, Wayne, 12, 24, 25, 52

  Barry, David S., 133

  Barsukov, Vladimir, 75, 77–79, 175

  bartering trade, 109–10, 113–14

  Basic Element, 216

  Baturina, Yelena, 94

  Bayrock Group LLC, 128, 130–31, 138–44, 149–51, 155–58, 167, 224, 229, 243

  beauty pageants, 92–93, 146, 204–06, 208–09, 211–12

  Begemot Ventures International (BVI), 233

  Behar, Richard, 173, 177

  Behrends, Paul, 242

  Benghazi investigation, 246

  Bennett, Barry, 235

  Berezovsky, Boris, 76, 99–100, 173, 174, 223

  Berger, Samuel, 106

  Beria, Lavrentiy, 97

  Berkovich, Vladimir, 85

  Berliner, Mina Yuditskaya, 115n

  Berlin Wall, fall of the, 60, 61, 70

  Beyrle, John, 94

  Bharara, Preet, 204, 237

  “The Billion Dollar Don” episode of Panorama (TV show), 56

  Birshtein, Boris, 70–71, 89, 145, 171, 266–67

  Black, Charlie, 249

  Black, Manafort, Stone, & Kelly lobbying firm, 181–83

  Black, Manafort & Stone lobbying firm, 45, 51

  Blair, Gwenda, 20

  Blane, Milton, 134

  Blavatnik, Leonard, 216–17

  Blazek, Petr, 43

  Block, Alan A., 171

  Blood Covenant (Franzese), 6

  Blowing Up Russia: The Secret Plot to Bring Back KGB Terror (Felshtinsky and Litvinenko), 103, 175

  Bogatin, David, 8–10, 12–13, 15–16, 82, 120, 221, 223, 267

  Bogatin, Jacob (Yakov), 107, 120, 267

  Bollenbach, Stephen, 92, 125

  Borovoi, Konstantin, 127

  Boyko, Oleg, 203, 267

  Bratva. See Solntsevskaya Bratva

  Breaux, John, 216

  Breedlove, Philip, 220

  Breitbart News, 234

  Brexit

  Russia’s interference with the vote for, 220–21, 247–48 />
  Brezhnev, Leonid, 13, 60n

  Brighton Beach, New York

  economic decline, 28

  Fred Trump’s real estate projects, 20–21

  “Little Odessa,” 28, 131

  Odessa Restaurant, 34

  as a place to recruit more Soviet spies, 28–29

  questionable lifestyles of new Russian residents, 30–31

  Russian Mafia’s presence, 27–31, 82–83

  Brooke Group, 93

  Browder, Bill, 18–19, 218, 238, 239, 240

  Buchanan, Pat, 105

  Buck, Brendan, 247

  Bukharin, Nikolai, 97

  Bulgarian Cooperative Bank, 62

  Bulger, Whitey, 151

  Burns, William, 188

  Bush, Billy, 256

  Bush, George H. W., 52, 53, 60, 235

  Bush, George W., 219

  Bush, Jeb, 234–35

  Buslaev, Vitaly Yuryevich, 165

  Butina, Maria, 217, 227

  BuzzFeed investigation of real estate sales to shell companies, 14

  Cali cartel (Colombia), 85

  Calvery, Jennifer Shasky, 122

  Cambridge Analytica, 233–34, 251, 256–57

  Cambridge Spy Ring, 41

  campaign donations, 239

  Carle, Glenn, 4

  casino businesses, 48–49, 66–67, 91–92, 121–22

  Casso, Anthony, 162

  Castellano, Paul, 25

  censorship

  dissidents sent to mental hospitals, 174

  media, 173–75

  Center for the National Interest policy speech, 250

  Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

  undercover operatives in embassies, 149

  Chabad Lubavitch organization, 115–17, 144, 159–61, 167, 243, 260

  Chaika, Yuri, 240

  Channel One Russia (ORT), 99

  character traits sought by the KGB, 47

  Chazov, Yevgeny, 44–45

  Chernenko, Konstantin, 13, 60n

  Chernomyrdin, Viktor, 119

  Chernoy, Lev, 114, 144, 158–59

  Chernoy, Mikhail, 113–14, 144, 158–59, 202, 267

  Chodiev, Patokh, 140

  Christie, Chris, 234–35

  Chubais, Anatoly, 96

  Churkin, Vitaly, 49, 267

  Circle of Brothers, 65

  Clapper, James, 4

  Clinton, Bill

  1998 bombing strike against al-Qaeda, 135

  photo with Gregori Loutchansky, 231n

  Stinger antiaircraft missiles recovery operation, 135

  Clinton, Hillary

  assumption of a presidential win, 260–62

  Benghazi investigation, 246

  campaign donations, 239

  concession to Donald Trump, 1, 263

  debates against Trump, 258–59

  DNC’s favoring of, 251–52

  email hacking, 222, 231, 252–53, 259

  incriminating information on, 236

  in Obama’s cabinet, 219

  support for Yulia Tymoshenko, 185

  use of a private email server, 252, 259

  and Vladimir Putin, 219–20

  Clinton Foundation, 255

  Clinton Global Initiative, 239n

  Clodo, Dietmar, 85–86, 196, 198

  Cohen, Bryan, 164

  Cohen, Michael D., 32, 132, 162–66, 202, 207, 229–30, 243–44, 268

  Cohn, Roy, 23–26, 47, 51, 132

  Colombo crime family, 5–11

  Comey, James

  characterization of Trump, 4–5

  investigation into the Clinton email hacking, 259

  Trump’s account of his 2013 trip to Russia, 212

  Commodore Hotel (later Grand Hyatt Hotel), 23, 25–26, 29, 113

  Coney Island, New York, 20–21

  Constitutional crisis, potential, 98

  Conway, George, 123n

  Conway, Kellyanne, 48n, 123, 254

  corruption

  Bank Secrecy Act violations by Trump Taj Mahal, 122

  Crocus Group’s award of massive government contracts, 200–01

  pay-for-play K Street lobbyists, 118–20, 217

  poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko, 178–79, 213

  and Putin, Vladimir, 67, 77–78, 98–101, 175, 178–79, 185–86, 200

  Putin’s political positioning as a fighter of, 96–97

  Russian journalists’ attempts to expose, 177–79

  wiretapping scandal regarding Polish politicians, 221

  in Yeltsin’s administration, 101–02

  Cosa Nostra Five Families crime syndicate

  collaborations with the Russian Mafia, 7–8, 82–83

  Colombo crime family, 5–11

  Comey’s comparison of Trump to, 4–5

  construction industry influences, 25

  Gambino crime family, 21–22, 25, 162

  Genovese crime family, 21–22, 25, 134, 162

  Lucchese crime family, 15, 26, 162

  Crane, Richard, Jr., 121n

  Crimea, 5, 17, 69n, 215, 223, 245

  Crocus Group, 199–201, 209

  Crooks, Rachel, 153

  Cruz, Ted, 233–35

  Cuomo, Mario, 52

  Curtis, Adam, 194

  cyber warfare

  Brexit tweets, 221, 247–48

  Democratic National Committee hacking, 227–28, 246–47, 250–53

  email hacking of Hillary Clinton, 222, 231, 252–53, 259

  email hacking of John Podesta, 255–56

  Facebook profile information, 256–57

  “fake news,” 17–18, 193–94, 223, 257

  hackers and bots, 255–56, 262–63

  media reports about Russian hacking, 253–54, 258–59

  Russian influence campaign regarding 2016 US presidential elections, 227–28

  Czechoslovakia

  information gathering on Donald Trump, 42–43

  StB (secret police), 42–43, 53–54

  surveillance of Ivana Zelníčková’s father, 38–39, 42–43

  data mining, 233

  Davis, Rick, 231

  Dawisha, Karen, 18–19, 103

  DeLay, Tom, 119

  Dellums, Ron, 242

  Democratic National Committee hacking, 227–28, 246–47, 251–52

  Denman, Diana, 248–49

  Denson, Charles, 21

  Deripaska, Oleg, 120, 185–86, 215, 232–33, 235, 243, 254, 268

  Derkach, Leonid, 81, 108–09, 171–72

  derzhavnost (Russia’s imperial reach), 106, 170

  Desai, Bhairavi, 164

  Deutch, John, 80n

  Devine, Tad, 231

  Dezer, Gil, 125

  Dima (Our Kind of Traitor), 55

  Dima Yakovlev Bill (anti-Magnitsky law), 238

  DiNatale, Jimmy, 48n, 123n

  dissolution of the Soviet Union, 60

  Dixon, Tasha, 211

  Dobrovolsky, Leonid, 73

  Dodson, James, 207

  Dole, Bob, 52, 120, 215, 235

  Dombey, Norman, 178

  Dubinin, Yuri, 46–47, 49, 269

  Dubinina, Natalia, 46–47, 268

  Dubovitsky, Natan. See Surkov, Vladislav

  Dunbar, Mike, 52

  Duvalier, Jean-Claude, 15

  Dzhyha, Mykola, 171

  Eastern Bloc countries

  abandonment of Russia, 170–71

  joining NATO, 16, 106, 170

  economic problems of Russia post-Cold War, 61, 73–77

  Ehrlich, Gregory, 165

  El Caribe Country Club, 32, 34, 162–63

  Elson, Monya, 83

  Emmerson, Ben, 178n

  energy resources trade

  “It’s a Gas” investigation of the Turkmen-Ukraine gas trade, 112

  Kazakhstan, 140

  Russia, 113–14, 188–89

  sweetheart deals brokered by Putin’s associates, 188–89

  “the Trio” (Maskevich, Chodiev, Ibragimov), 140, 145, 158–59, 167

  Ukraine,
90, 107, 112–13, 180, 188–89

  Engel, Eliot, 242

  Erdoğan, Recep Tayyip, 141

  Estrin, Melvyn, 163

  Eural Trans Gas (ETG), 112

  Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation, 140, 216

  Executive Intelligence Review, 50–51

  exit polls, 261–62

  Fainberg, Ludwig, 85

  “fake news”

  Pizzagate, 257

  Putin’s “virtual” war using, 17–18, 193–94, 223, 257

  Farage, Nigel, 220

  Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

  Democratic National Committee hacking investigation, 227–28, 246–47

  FBI-Hungarian National Police Organized Crime Task Force, 108, 217

  Federal Witness Protection Program, 83

  fight against radical Islamist terrorism, 136–37

  investigation of Semion Mogilevich, 108, 217

  pursuit of Italian Mafia over Russian Mafia, 36

  warnings about Russian organized crime, 218

  Felshtinsky, Yuri, 101, 103, 164–65, 175

  59 Russian connections of Donald Trump, 265–79

  Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), 122

  Financial Times, 14

  First Chief Directorate (FCD), 46

  Firtash, Dmitry, 109–13, 166, 180, 185, 188–89, 234, 269

  Fisher, Marc, 130

  Fisher, Ronel, 143

  Fisherman, Igor, 107, 111

  FL Group, 158, 167

  Flynn, Michael, 230, 250, 269

  Foer, Franklin, 182, 232

  Ford, Gerald, 22, 235

  Fortune (magazine), 37–38

  Foruper Limited, 119

  Frank, Thomas, 14

  Franzese, John (Sonny)

  ascent into the Five Families crime syndicate, 6

  gas-tax-evasion scam, 6–10

  professional reputation, 7

  release from prison, 5

  Franzese, Michael, 6–10

  Freeh, Louis, 4, 218, 237

  Freidman, Evgeny, 164

  Frelick, Bill, 220

  Friedman, Alan, 185

  Friedman, David, 93n

  Friedman, Robert I., 30–31, 83

  Fursin, Ivan, 187, 188–89

  Fusion GPS, 213

  Galeotti, Mark, 195n

  Gambino crime family, 21–22, 25, 162

  gambling ring arrest in Trump Tower (2013), 201–04

  The Gang from Lubyanka (Litvinenko), 78, 175

  Garber, Simon, 164

  Garten, Alan, 126–27, 142, 147–48, 154

  gas-tax-evasion scam of the 1980s, 6–10, 34–35, 82, 132

  Gates, Rick, 184, 187, 231, 254, 269

  Gazprom energy company, 76, 112, 180, 188–89, 216

  Genovese crime family, 21–22, 25, 134, 162

  Geovanis, David, 95, 270

  Gerasimov, Valery, 195

  Gerasimov Doctrine, 195n, 262

  Gessen, Masha, 69

  Giuliani, Rudy, 159

 

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