Russian Lawyer Who Met Donald Trump Jr. Once Represented Spy Agency
A Kremlin spokesman, Dmitri S. Peskov, has said Ms. Veselnitskaya "has nothing to do with us." Still, the court documents showing the lawyer’s link to the Russian spy agency, which
was first reported by Reuters, are likely to intensify interest in her by American investigators who are examining the relationships between the Trump campaign and Russia.
The lawyer, Natalia V. Veselnitskaya, who is now at the center of the political intrigue over the Trump campaign’s possible collusion with Russia during Donald
J. Trump’s presidential campaign, represented a military unit founded by the Russian Federal Security Service in 2002, publicly available records show.
By IVAN NECHEPURENKOJULY 21, 2017
MOSCOW — The Russian lawyer who met with Donald Trump Jr. last year after his father had won the Republican nomination for
president had once represented Russia’s top intelligence agency in court, according to at least two public records.
President Trump’s eldest son agreed to a meeting with Ms. Veselnitskaya after she was described as a Russian government
lawyer who had obtained incriminating documents about Hillary Clinton, Mr. Trump’s Democratic challenger.
Ms. Veselnitskaya insisted after her June 2016 meeting with Mr. Trump’s son was first reported by The New York Times two weeks ago
that she had no ties to the Kremlin and never worked for the Russian government.
Ms. Veselnitskaya has since said she never had damaging information about Mrs. Clinton,
and President Trump has said he only learned about the meeting a few days before The Times reported it.