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Стали известны подробности о поджигательнице автомобиля сотрудника Генштаба

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Родные подозреваемой в поджоге автомобиля генштаба ВС России Евгения Секретарева Елены Беловой рассказали, что женщина в последние дни была самая не своя. По их словам, она думала, что сама участвует в «спецоперации».

Они рассказали, что Белова постоянно разговаривала по телефону, и только после поджога выяснилось, что все это время она была на связи с мошенниками. Сначала они позвонили ей с традиционными мошенническими схемами – для борьбы некими бандитами, Беловой нужно было взять кредит на миллион рублей, передает Telegram-канала Baza.

Затем, по словам родственников, мошенники якобы дали ей задание «помочь российским военным» – и сжечь машину Секретарева. Все это время Елена была с мошенниками на связи.

По мнению семьи, Белова якобы попала под гипноз. Они звонили ей и ее дочке, когда женщина ушла из дома, они заявили, что ее похитили и требовали выкуп в полмиллиона рублей.

В семье рассказали, что Белова поддерживает спецоперацию и сама бы никогда не пошла поджигать машину, тем более военного начальника. Ночью Белову выпустили из полиции.

Между тем момент поджога автомобиля попал на видео. На видео видно, как подозреваемая подходит к автомобилю и что-то делает со стороны водительского сидения. Кадры опубликованы в Telegram-канале Shot.

О поджоге автомобиля работника Генштаба ВС РФ стало известно вечером 27 августа. BMW загорелась во дворе дома на Ленинградском шоссе. Больше всего пострадала задняя часть авто – выгорел багажник.

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«Солнцепек» уничтожил в ДНР группу украинских военных

  

В результате применения тяжелой огнеметной системы ТОС-1А под Бахмутом (Артемовском) в Донецкой народной республике уничтожена группа украинских военных.

Украинские военнослужащие предприняли попытку контратаки. Передвижения противника вовремя были обнаружены, и бойцы группы «Вагнер» применили ТОС-1А «Солнцепек» по скоплению войск противника, передает корреспондент РИА «Новости».

В результате огневого поражения были уничтожены десятки украинских военнослужащих. Атака противника на этом участке фронта была отбита.

Ранее Минобороны России сообщило, что в результате действий войск на Харьковском направлении ВСУ потеряли более 200 военных, а в районе населенного пункта Лозовое поражена 46-й аэромобильная бригада, пытавшаяся скрытно форсировать реку Ингулец.  

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Эксперт объяснил отказ Казахстана от экспорта вооружений

  

Решение Казахстана запретить экспорт вооружений до осени 2023 года может быть продиктовано желанием не портить отношения с Россией и Украиной, сказал газете ВЗГЛЯД гендиректор Института ЕврАзЭС Владимир Лепехин. О запрете поставок стало известно в субботу, ранее появлялись сообщения о поставках вооружений из Казахстана на Украину через третьи страны.

«Чтобы не испортить отношения с Россией, для Казахстана сегодня является приоритетом неучастие в российско-украинском конфликте. Ранее уже были попытки привлечь Казахстан к поставкам вооружений на Украину», – отмечает гендиректор Института ЕврАзЭС Владимир Лепехин.

Россия, полагает эксперт, тоже заинтересована в покупке вооружений за рубежом, в том числе и в Казахстане, «чье руководство приняло для себя решение не участвовать в этом». Таким образом, Нур-Султан исключает возможности испортить отношения с Киевом или с Москвой. «Чтобы не было реэкспорта казахстанской военной продукции через третьи страны, например, на Украину и в Россию, было принято решение приостановить экспорт. Это лучший выход в нейтральную позицию, чтобы не дестабилизировать ситуацию ни у себя, ни в рамках Евразийского экономического союза», – добавил собеседник.

О решении правительства Казахстана приостановить до конца августа следующего года экспорт военной продукции стало известно в субботу. Решение было принято по итогам заседания комиссии по вопросам оборонной промышленности с участием премьер-министра Алихана Смаилова. С предложением, которое было поддержано, выступило министерство индустрии и инфраструктурного развития.

Согласно утечкам, США и Великобритания рассчитывали закупать советские вооружения для Украины по всему миру после того как в странах бывшего Варшавского договора иссякли эти запасы. Лондон, как отмечали «Аргументы недели», уже закупал у Казахстана артиллерийские боеприпасы для украинской армии. Речь шла о снарядах для 122-мм гаубиц Д-30, 152-мм гаубиц Д-20 и для РСЗО БМ-21 «Град».

Поставки, общая цена которых оценивилась почти в семь млн долларов, якобы осуществлялись через Иорданию. Кроме того, появлялись данные о закупке в Казахстане более полутысячи БМП-1 и БМП-2 и двухсот российских бронетранспортеров БТР-82А. Впрочем, подобные сведения могли быть информационным вбросом с целью добиться раскола в Организации Договора о коллективной безопасности (ОДКБ), куда также входят Россия и Казахстан.

Добавим, что в этом году неоднократно возникали перебои в работе нефтепровода Каспийского трубопроводного консорциума (КТК) из-за технических проблем на терминале в Новороссийске, через который реализуется в том числе и нефть из Казахстана. Летом президент Казахстана Касым-Жомарт Токаев поручал правительству изучить альтернативные маршруты экспорта нефти в обход России. Но цена альтернативных маршрутов оказалась менее выгодной. Официальный Нур-Султан пока не сообщал о каких-либо конкретных сроках заключения контрактов и начала транспортировки нефти в обход России.

На прошлой неделе Токаев встречался в Сочи с Владимиром Путиным. Казахстанский гость напоминал о том, что обе страны объединяет самая протяженная сухопутная граница в мире в 7,5 тыс. километров. Некоторые наблюдатели расценили эти слова Токаева как сигналы внутренней аудитории о том, что конфликта с Россией опасаться не стоит и визит носил дружеский характер.

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Болгария отказалась вести переговоры с Газпромом о новом договоре

Болгария ограничится переговорами в рамках действующего договора с Газпромом и не намерена вести диалог о новом соглашении, заявил вице-премьер по экономической политике технического правительства страны Христо Алексиев во время переговоров с генеральным директором дирекции «Энергетика» Европейской комиссии Дитте Юль-Йоргенсен.

«Представители Еврокомиссии были ознакомлены с подходом технического правительства по обеспечению поставок природного газа в краткосрочный и долгосрочный период. Долгосрочный план предусматривает объявление международных торгов по поставкам сжиженного газа. Предполагается, что техническое правительство даст старт процедуре, но решение о заключении подобного соглашения будет принято новым выбранным правительством. Болгария подтвердила и интерес своего участия в механизме совместного приобретения энергоносителей, которые будут созданы в рамках Энергетической платформы ЕС», – передает ТАСС слова Алексиева.

Подчеркивается, что техническое правительство Болгарии «не намерено вести разговоры о новом краткосрочном, среднесрочном или долгосрочном договоре с Газпромом, а ограничится переговорами с ним в рамках действующего соглашений.

В апреле Газпром приостановил поставки российского газа в ряд стран, включая Болгарию, контрагенты которых не произвели оплату за энергоресурсы в установленные сроки и отказались осуществлять платежи в рублях.

В июне болгарский парламент впервые в своей истории вынес вотум недоверия правительству. Теперь уже бывший глава правительства Болгарии Кирил Петков обвинил в своей отставке посла России Элеонору Митрофанову.

Напомним, в пятницу министр энергетики страны Росен Христов заявил, что Болгария готова возобновить с Газпромом переговоры по поставкам газа, ожидает от российской компании ответа в ближайшее время.

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В Госдуме потребовали от Украины безоговорочной капитуляции

  

Лидер ЛДПР Леонид Слуцкий заявил, что Россия рассмотрит возможность переговоров с украинской стороной только в случае ее готовности к безоговорочной капитуляции, а также если Украина будет готова к качественному сокращению своих вооруженных сил и полной денацификации.

«Хочу пояснить господам-националистам. Мы готовы рассматривать переговорный процесс, если украинская сторона будет готова к безоговорочной капитуляции, если украинская сторона будет готова к качественному сокращению своих вооруженных сил, полной безоговорочной денацификации», – отметил парламентарий в видео, размещенном в его Telegram-канале.

Последний контакт между странами был в июле, когда в Стамбуле прошли четырехсторонние переговоры с представителями Турции, ООН, Украины и России по вопросу организации вывоза сельхозпродукции из черноморских портов.

Ранее советник главы офиса украинского президента Владимира Зеленского Михаил Подоляк в интервью изданию «Бабель» заявил, что сам факт таких переговоров будет означать победу России над Европой и Украиной, цивилизационную катастрофу, а также падение всей глобальной системы безопасности.

До этого президент Украины Владимир Зеленский заявил, что существует «последняя черта», после которой Киев откажется от переговоров с Москвой.

Речь идет о судебном процессе над нацистами, которые издевались над мирными жителями в Мариуполе. Зеленский заявил, что реакция Киева на это будет однозначной.

Глава МИД России Сергей Лавров в свою очередь заявлял, что в текущей ситуации мирные переговоры России с Украиной не имеют никакого смысла.

Напомним, постпред России при ООН Василий Небензя заявил, что, он хотел бы увидеть решение конфликта на Украине, установленное путем переговоров, но при условии, что цели спецоперации будут достигнуты.

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Пугачева рассказала, чем займется в России

  

Певица Алла Пугачева заявила, что вернулась в Россию, чтобы «навести порядок» в головах.

«Порядок наводить. В моей голове, в вашей голове», – ответила Пугачева на вопрос РенТВ, чем планирует заняться в России.

Также она утвердительно ответила на вопрос о том, пойдут ли ее дети в школу 1 сентября.

«У них ножки есть, здоровые. Да», – заявила певица.

Ранее дизайнер Игорь Гуляев опубликовал видео с Примадонной, предположительно, в центре Москвы. Она сообщила, что «уже давно просто не могла никак собраться», чтобы официально объявить о возвращении из-за рубежа.

СМИ: Польша останется без мяса и молока через две недели

После подорожания углеводородов часть польских заводов либо закрылись, либо сократили объемы своего производства, связанного с пищевой промышленностью, сообщило издание Wiadomosci.

Компания Grupa Azoty закрыла завод, производящий удобрения и компоненты, необходимые для создания пластмассы, а химические заводы фирмы Capital стали производить на 10 процентов меньше аммиака. В результате промышленного коллапса в пищевом производстве возникла нехватка необходимых товаров, таких как углекислый газ, пишет Wiadomosci.

По прогнозам представителей пищевой отрасли, через 2–3 недели в Польше в магазинах исчезнут мясо, молочные продукты и другие товары. По их словам, уже треть польских продуктовых предприятий прекратила работу из-за недостатка сырья.

Ранее сообщалось, что пивные и молочные заводы Польши оказались под угрозой закрытия.

До этого представитель Greenpeace Polska Марек Юзефяк заявил в эфире программы Onet Rano, что Польше хватит газа до декабря, а потом страна столкнется с дефицитом на уровне 40%.

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В Европе произошел бум «сухого туризма»

Реки, озера и водохранилища в Европе обмелели из-за сильнейшей засухи, на поверхности появились объекты, которые были скрыты от людей, что вызвало прилив туристов к новым достопримечательностям, сообщает АТОР.

Так, в сербском Прахово в обмелевшем Дунае на поверхности оказались остовы 20 военных кораблей, затопленных немецкими войсками в 1944 году при отступлении под натиском советских войск, передает РИА «Новости».

Сейчас потопленные корабли значительно осложняют судоходство – безопасный участок сузился со 180 до 100 метров.

В Испании из-под воды показался доисторический дольмен Гуадальпераль, сто лет назад найденный немецким археологом Хьюго Обермайером. Считается, что круг из десятков мегалитических камней, называемый «испанским Стоунхенджем», появился за 5 тыс. лет до нашей эры. Дольмен находится в водохранилище Вальдеканьяс, которое из-за засухи заполнено всего на 26 %.

В обмелевшем водохранилище Сау показалась затопленная в 1962-м церковь Сан-Рома. Теперь она стала новой местной достопримечательностью.

В Италии в конце июня в реке По показалась затонувшая баржа времен Второй мировой войны. В реке Тибр на поверхности появился обычно затопленный римский мост I века до нашей эры.

В Германии обмелевшие реки приносят убытки организаторам речных круизов. В городе Кауб уровень воды снизился до 36 сантиметров. Во Франции в некоторых районах высохли участки Луары. Напомним, засуху в Европе

называют одной из самых сильных за последний 500 лет.

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Bloomberg: Россия может перекрыть газ Евросоюзу на год без негативных для себя последствий

  

Нынешних доходов от продажи топлива Москве хватит «чуть более чем на год» в случае прекращения поставок в ЕС, сообщило агентство Bloomberg со ссылкой на заявление экономиста консалтинговой компании Лиама Пича.

«До тех пор, пока цены на нефть и уровень экспорта остаются на текущих высоких уровнях, профицита текущего счета России будет достаточно, чтобы поддерживать его даже при отключении от основного газового рынка», – приводит Bloomberg слова Пича.

Экономист считает, что нынешних доходов от продажи топлива Москве хватит «чуть более чем на год» в случае прекращения поставок в ЕС. Без этого рынка Россия может зарабатывать до 20 млрд долларов в квартал на экспорте газа, несмотря на сокращение объемов.

Напомним, в пятницу стоимость газа в Европе превысила 3500 долларов за 1 тыс. кубометров.

Власти стран ЕС предупреждают, что миллионы граждан уже в ближайшие месяцы могут остаться без электричества и отопления, прогнозируются веерные отключения электроэнергии, дефицит газа и гигантские счета за энергоснабжение.

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Путин разрешил гражданам ДНР, ЛНР и Украины находиться в России без ограничения сроков

  

Президент Владимир Путин подписал указ о праве граждан ДНР, ЛНР и Украины пребывать в России без ограничения сроков при условии дактилоскопии, фото и медосвидетельствования, соответствующий документ опубликован на официальном интернет-портале правовой информации.

«Установить что: граждане Донецкой Народной Республики, Луганской Народной Республики и Украины: вправе временно пребывать в РФ без ограничения сроков, установленных Федеральным законом от 25 июля 2002 года «О правовом положении иностранных граждан в Российской Федерации», при условии прохождения ими в порядке и сроки, которые определены этим Федеральным законом, обязательной государственной дактилоскопической регистрации, фотографирования, а также медицинского освидетельствования на наличие или отсутствие факта употребления ими наркотических средств», – передает РИА «Новости» текст указа.

Также в документе указано, что граждане ДНР, ЛНР и Украины вправе осуществлять в России трудовую деятельность без разрешения на работу или патента.

Кроме того, Путин установил ряд ежемесячных и разовых выплат для вынужденно эвакуировавшихся в Россию граждан Донецкой и Луганской народных республик и Украины.

В частности, введена ежемесячная пенсионная выплата в 10 тыс. рублей и ежемесячная социальная выплата инвалидам в том же размере, а также доплата к этим выплатам в 3 тыс. рублей для инвалидов I группы, детей инвалидов и пенсионеров старше 80 лет. Ветераны Великой Отечественной войны будут получать ежемесячно 5 тыс. рублей, передает ТАСС.

Беременным женщинам установлена единовременная выплата в 10 тыс. рублей, при рождении ребенка – единовременно 20 тыс. Ежемесячная выплата на каждого ребенка составит 4 тыс. рублей, а если ребенок под опекой – 15 тыс. рублей. Также по 10 тыс. рублей в месяц будет получать единственный родитель на каждого ребенка.

Ранее президент России Владимир Путин отдал распоряжение выплатить по 10 тыс. рублей родителям учеников от шести до 18 лет в республиках Донбасса и на освобожденных территориях.

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Bild назвала возможного преемника Зеленского

  

Главнокомандующий Вооруженными силами Украины (ВСУ) Валерий Залужный станет новым президентом страны после Владимира Зеленского, сообщила немецкая газета Bild.

«Залужный является героем не только для солдат, но и для значительной части населения. Источники верят, что популярный генерал сменит нынешнего главу правительства Владимира Зеленского после окончания конфликта. При этом действующий президент Зеленский не очень рад спекуляциям о том, что однажды он может покинуть президентский дворец», – пишет Bild, передает Ura.ru.

Ранее украинские СМИ сообщили, что Владимир Зеленский хочет сместить Валерия Залужного с должности главнокомандующего украинскими войсками.

Большинство аналитиков сходится во мнении, что Зеленского могут свергнуть уже осенью.

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Боррель предупредил о серьезных вызовах для ЕС из-за санкций

  

Евросоюз вскоре столкнется с серьезными вызовами в связи с антироссийскими санкциями из-за ситуации на Украине, заявил глава европейской дипломатии Жозеп Боррель.

«Это ограничительные меры. Мы ограничиваем экономические возможности России. Пока экономика России зависит от нефти и газа, им будут нужны наши технологии. У России трудности. И, конечно, мы столкнемся с серьезными вызовами в краткосрочной перспективе. Нельзя отрицать, что цены на газ растут. Но мы должны быть готовы заплатить цену за свободу», – передает слова Борреля РИА «Новости».

Напомним, более половины жителей в ряде ведущих европейских стран выступили против введения новых санкций против России, если они ухудшат уровень жизни населения, следует из данных исследования.

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В Германии ТЦ начали отключать эскалаторы

  

Первые торговые центры Германии начали отключать некоторые эскалаторы в рамках мер по экономии электроэнергии, сообщили СМИ.

Работу эскалаторов начали ограничивать в торговых сетях Saturn («Затурн») и Karstadt («Карштадт»), передает ТАСС со ссылкой на Bild. При этом немецкий таблоид не приводит никакой статистики.

«Мы начали экономить энергию на освещении и эскалаторах. Делаем это по возможности, чтобы не обременять клиентов», – заявил глава торговой группы Galeria-Kaufhof («Галерия-Кауфхоф») Мигель Мюлленбах.

24 августа правительство ФРГ согласовало меры по экономии энергии в зимний период, которые позволят сократить потребление газа на 2-2,5%. Меры подразумевают, в частности, сокращение температуры при отоплении офисов и общественных учреждений с 20 до 19 градусов, отключение наружной рекламы и подсветки зданий и памятников с 22.00 до 06.00. Кроме того, владельцам магазинов запретят долго держать открытыми двери.

Ранее крупнейший в Германии крематорий Рейн-Таунус (федеральная земля Северный Рейн-Вестфалия) ради экономии газа перешел на круглосуточный режим работы.

Напомним, федеральное правительство Германии с озабоченностью ожидает наступление осени, в том числе из-за возможных радикальных протестов, вызванных ростом цен на газ и продукты питания. Газета ВЗГЛЯД разбиралась, какие страны Европы попадут под удар из-за ситуации с газом.

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Макрон подвергся нападкам со стороны прохожих в Алжире

Толпа скандировала грубые оскорбления в адрес президента Франции Эмманюэля Макрона во время его поездки в Алжир, сообщил телеканал BFM.

Инцидент произошел во время поездки Макрона в город Оран в Алжире. Президент посетил часовню Санта-Крус, после отправился выпить чаю в бутик Disco Maghreb, а далее решил прогуляться по соседним улицам и пообщаться с местным населением, передает ТАСС.

Группа прохожих начала скандировать грубые оскорбления в адрес французского президента, выкрикивать лозунги против Франции и ее политики в отношении Алжира. Макрон оставил эти выкрики без внимания и, поблагодарив собравшихся, сел в свой автомобиль.

Ранее официальный представитель Министерства иностранных дел Турции Танжу Бильгич заявил, что внешнеполитическое ведомство призвало Францию признать последствия своего колониального прошлого и не стараться уйти от исторических реалий.

Политолог Сергей Федоров объяснил причины скандала между Францией и Алжиром.

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Задержанного за убийство мужа немецкого консула освободили в Бразилии

Немецкого консула Уве Герберта Хана, ранее задержанного в Рио-де-Жанейро по подозрению в убийстве мужа, суд в Бразилии освободил, сообщило Reuters.

«Его освобождение, подтвержденное управлением тюрем штата Рио-де-Жанейро, произошло после того, как судья Роза Хелена Гита постановила, что прокуратура пропустила первоначальный срок для предъявления обвинений», – передает РИА «Новости» сообщение агентства.

Прокуратура Рио-де-Жанейро сообщила агентству, что к ней еще не обращались для предъявления обвинений.

Ранее немецкого консула Уве Герберта Хана задержали в Бразилии по подозрению в убийстве мужа. Он сообщил властям, что его супругу, гражданину Бельгии Вальтеру Анри Максимильяну Биоту стало плохо в пятницу вечером, он упал и ударился головой, из-за чего наступила смерть. Однако согласно полиции, улики указывают на то, что Биота избили.

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СМИ: МАГАТЭ сформировало делегацию, которая посетит ЗАЭС

Международное агентство по атомной энергии (МАГАТЭ) сформировало миссию, которая, как ожидается, на следующей неделе отправится на Запорожскую АЭС, сообщили СМИ.

Как сообщает The New York Times, миссию возглавит генеральный директор МАГАТЭ Рафаэль Гросси, вместе с ним на станцию отправятся еще 13 экспертов преимущественно из нейтральных стран, передает ТАСС. Издание отмечает, что представителей Соединенных Штатов и Великобритании в списке участников миссии нет.

Ранее гендиректор Международного агентства по атомной энергии (МАГАТЭ) Рафаэль Гросси заявил, что миссия МАГАТЭ прибудет на Запорожскую АЭС в ближайшие дни. 

Позже официальный представитель МИД Мария Захарова заявила, что Украина делает все, чтобы не допустить поездку миссии МАГАТЭ на Запорожскую АЭС, но эти расчеты не оправдаются.

В среду Россия ознакомила СБ ООН с доказательствами обстрелов ЗАЭС Украиной.

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Laws cited in Trump search warrant rarely lead to charges, but experts say it might in Trump’s case

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Garland requests Trump’s Mar-a-Lago search warrant to be unsealed
Attorney General Merrick Garland said he personally approved the decision to seek a search warrant on former President Donald Trump’s property.
  • Federal charges under the Espionage Act used to justify Trump search are rare.
  • Investigators questioning Trump aides about handling records could build a case, experts say
  • Prosecutors weigh evidence to bring charges against potential for revealing secrets.

WASHINGTON – Criminal statutes cited by the Justice Department in the search of Donald Trump’s Florida estate for mishandled documents are rarely prosecuted, but legal experts say investigators may still be building a criminal case rather than simply retrieving classified records.

The FBI recovered 11 sets of “secret” and “top secret” records from Mar-a-Lago during the unprecedented search of a former president’s property. Authorities sought evidence of potential violations for mishandling defense documents, obstruction of justice and the Espionage Act.

Beyond recovering the documents, legal experts said reports of authorities interviewing Trump aides about whether documents were declassified suggest they continue to gather evidence to build a potential criminal case against Trump himself.

“I’m convinced they are building a case to determine if they can bring charges against Trump,” said Renato Mariotti, a former federal prosecutor now at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner. “You just aren’t going to do that if your goal is to just primarily secure the documents and move on.”

Will Trump aides face charges?: Trump aides unlikely to face charges on their own in Mar-a-Lago probe, former prosecutors say

Paul Rosenzweig, a former federal prosecutor and senior counsel on the Whitewater investigation of President Bill Clinton, also said prosecutors wouldn’t pursue witnesses about Trump’s reputed standing order for declassification of documents if not to build a case.

“If they just wanted the paper back, they wouldn’t be doing that,” said Rosenzweig, who now manages Red Branch Consulting for cybersecurity. “Doing that means that they’re trying to block off defenses and lock people in.”

Bradley Moss, a national-security lawyer, predicted Friday after reading the redacted affidavit that Trump would be indicted. Lawrence Tribe, a professor emeritus at Harvard Law School, said Attorney General Merrick Garland would have to prosecute Trump under the three statutes cited in the search warrant in order to uphold the rule of law.

“We have crossed the Rubicon,” Tribe said in a tweet.

Investigators weigh carelessness against negligence

The investigation of Hillary Clinton’s use of private email while serving as secretary of state was a touchstone case that legal experts cited in how prosecutors will weigh the evidence against Trump.

The FBI investigated 30,000 Clinton emails for whether her system improperly transferred or stored classified information. The probe found 110 emails contained classified information, including eight chains of messages with “top secret” information, according to then-FBI Director James Comey.

But after a review of similar cases, Comey called Clinton’s behavior “extremely careless,” but not “grossly negligent.” Comey said no criminal charges were appropriate because of a lack of willful mishandling of information, disloyalty to the United States or efforts to obstruct justice.

Daniel Richman, a former federal prosecutor who is now a professor at Columbia Law School, said the Clinton case illustrated that the nature of the documents and how they were handled will be factors in whether prosecutors pursue a case.

“It was the difference between just having documents inappropriately and making use of them,” said Richman, who doesn’t assume Trump will be charged.

How were other classified document cases handled?

Charges are relatively rare under the statutes cited in the search warrant for mishandling documents.

Previous cases in which such charges were pursued involve high-profile leaks about documents such as the Pentagon Papers about the Vietnam War, Wikileaks about State Department diplomatic cables or Edward Snowden’s release of information about National Security Agency surveillance.

But prosecuting those cases proved difficult. In the Pentagon Papers case, the government dropped its charges against Defense Department analyst Daniel Ellsberg and after a mistrial featuring disclosures about undisclosed wiretaps and a government-ordered breakin at his psychiatrist’s office. Snowden fled to Russia to avoid prosecution. The Justice Department seeks the extradition of Wikileaks leader Julian Assange from England.

When prosecuted, the cases can carry stiff penalties.  

Chelsea Manning, a former Army intelligence analyst, was sentenced to 35 years in prison for providing a trove of State Department cables to Wikileaks. President Barack Obama commuted the sentence after about six years.

Jeffrey Sterling, a former CIA officer, was sentenced to 42 months in prison for revealing classified information to a New York Times reporter about a covert operation providing false nuclear blueprints to Iran.

Stephen Jin-Woo Kim, a former State Department contract analyst, was sentenced to 13 months in prison for disclosing classified information to a Fox News reporter about North Korea’s nuclear program.

More: Trump’s relentless attacks on Mar-a-Lago search lack context. What he said vs. what we know.

But cases about mishandling documents have been pleaded down to lesser charges. 

David Petraeus, a former Army general and CIA director, was fined $100,000 after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor for sharing classified documents with his biographer. Sandy Berger, a former national security adviser to President Bill Clinton, was fined $50,000 after pleading guilty to the same misdemeanor for sneaking classified documents out of the National Archives and destroying some copies of records.

“I would expect that any serious prosecutor will very much distinguish between the quantity of documents, the sensitive nature of documents, the use to which the documents were put,” Richman said. “What’s emerging is a story of utter contempt for government processes.”

Experts: DOJ ‘too soft’ with Trump

In Trump’s case, the National Archives notified him in a May 10 letter that more than 100 documents comprising 700 pages were retrieved in January from Mar-a-Lago with classification markings.

“There are important national security interests in the FBI and others in the Intelligence Community getting access to these materials,” acting Archivist of the United States Debra Steidel Wall said in a letter to Trump lawyer Evan Corcoran.

The letter revealed that Trump knew he had classified documents the archives sought months before the FBI search, which legal experts said could be used to illustrate criminal intent to allegedly mishandle documents.

Barbara McQuade, a former U.S. attorney and now a law professor at the University of Michigan, said the letter illustrated Trump hadn’t been cooperative with federal authorities and that his claims of executive privilege to keep the documents confidential were wrong.

“If anything, they’ve been too soft,” she said in a tweet.

Government demands for documents grew more urgent over time. Trump turned over the documents to the National Archives in January voluntarily, additional classified documents to federal authorities under subpoena June 3 and more documents – including 11 sets of classified records – under a search warrant Aug. 8.

Neama Rahmani, a former federal prosecutor and president of West Coast Trial Lawyers in Los Angeles, said the months of exchanges revealed criminal intent because Trump knew he held records the government sought.

“They needed to be more robust and aggressive,” Rahmani said. “They really took this sort of white-glove approach with Trump.”

U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart authorized the search after the FBI notified him the January documents included 67 marked confidential, 92 marked “secret” and 25 marked “top secret.” That trove of documents included markings for clandestine human sources of intelligence, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, “NOFORN” information that can’t be released to foreign governments and “ORCON” information that can’t be released beyond pre-approved U.S. entities, according to the redacted FBI affidavit used to justify the search that was unsealed Friday.

Corcoran argued in a May 25 letter to Jay Bratt, the head of the counterintelligence section at the Justice Department, that Trump as president had “absolute authority to declassify documents.” Because of a president’s ultimate legal authority under the Constitution, Corcoran argued his actions dealing with classified documents “are not subject to criminal sanction.”

“Beyond that, the primary criminal statute that governs the unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents or material does not apply to the president,” Corcoran wrote.

But authorities have found no documentation Trump declassified the documents. Even if he had, the statutes cited in the search warrant deal with defense and government documents, not necessarily classified records.

Andrew Weissmann, lead prosecutor for special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and a law professor at New York University, said Trump’s claims the documents were declassified or protected under executive privilege could help prosecutors prove he knew holding the documents was wrong.

“The series of bogus defenses Trump is raising makes the criminal case against him only stronger and the discretionary factors in favor of DOJ deciding to proceed with prosecution that much weightier,” Weissmann said in a tweet.

Experts stress importance of keeping classified documents secret

While waiting for more details about the documents at stake, legal experts said the government must weigh whether prosecuting Trump would reveal more secrets. 

McQuade, the former U.S. attorney, said before the release of the affidavit the government may be reluctant to file charges against Trump for fear of “graymail,” the risk of exposing secrets during litigation. Defendants, lawyers, the judge, jury and court staff review documents used as evidence at trial, she said.

“That possibility often causes members of the intelligence community to balk at the idea of criminal prosecution,” McQuade wrote Aug. 18.

Sharon Squassoni, who specialized in nuclear arms control and security policy while working at the State Department and is now a research professor at George Washington University, said Trump’s handling of classified documents sounded alarming.

“Dumping these documents in boxes for movers to take them is just very sloppy and reveals a lack of respect for procedures and security and worse, it reveals a misguided notion of power,” Squassoni said. “You can get people killed if that information falls into the wrong hands.”

But she said we won’t know the extent of the impact until learning more about what documents were at stake. A trial could reveal more about the documents that authorities want to keep secret.

“Finding out a little more runs the risk of further damage,” Squassoni said.

Richman also said pressing charges risks expose the secrets in the documents.

“If you charge an offense that requires proof about the nature of the material, you run the risk of disclosure of at least some aspect of those materials,” Richman said. “The government is wary of doing that.”

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Inventing Anna: Ukrainian-Born Scammer Posed with Trump and Wandered Mar-a-Lago

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by Will Jordan (OCCRP), Michael Sallah (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette), Kevin G. Hall (OCCRP), Brian Fitzpatrick (OCCRP), Karina Shedrofsky (OCCRP)

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Inna Yashchyshyn, a self-confessed grifter linked to a fraudulent charity, posed as a member of one of the world’s most famous banking families, gained access to Donald Trump’s Florida home, and mingled with top Republicans.

Key Findings

  • Inna Yashchyshyn, alias Anna de Rothschild, was invited into Mar-a-Lago and posed as a member of the European banking dynasty.
  • Yashchyshyn is linked to a fake charity and other fraudulent ventures.
  • Her dealings are being investigated by law enforcement in both Canada and the U.S.
  • The revelations raise security concerns about how she was able to mix freely at Mar-a-Lago with the ex-president and other prominent political figures.

Anna de Rothschild blended in perfectly as she rolled through the gates at Mar-a-Lago. Bearing the name of European banking royalty, she flashed a Rolex on her wrist, drove a new Mercedes Benz AMG G63, and touted her connections to big real estate developments.

The rich and powerful she mingled with at the Florida resort, including close family and friends of the 45th president of the United States, seemed unaware that the confident 33-year-old with long, flowing locks was no Rothschild.

OCCRP and the The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette have learned that the woman who guests said posed as a Rothschild is actually Inna Yashchyshyn, a Russian-speaking immigrant born in Ukraine, daughter of a truck driver and the former director of a Miami charity called United Hearts of Mercy.

She is also under investigation by Canadian law enforcement, and the FBI is asking questions about her business dealings.

Her charity was kicked off payment processing platform Stripe after its experts found stolen credit card numbers from Hong Kong were used to route donations to the charity.

Yashchyshyn’s background and her motives for making her way to Mar-a-Lago, where she had her photo snapped alongside former President Donald J. Trump in May 2021, are still a mystery.

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Yashchyshyn with Trump at Trump’s International Golf Club, May 2021.

Adding an additional layer of intrigue, Yashchyshyn and her one-time business partner Valeriy Tarasenko have filed domestic violence injunctions against each other in South Florida. He claims she is a fraudster and predator who preyed on rich older men and abused his teenage daughter. She calls him a violent criminal who effectively held her hostage.

The fact that Yashchyshyn was apparently granted easy access to what Trump dubbed his Winter White House is more troubling when viewed against the backdrop of the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago on August 8 to seize classified government documents as part of a federal investigation.

Photos and videos from May 2021 obtained by the Post-Gazette and OCCRP show Yashchyshyn was quite convincing as an imposter Rothschild, a fact confirmed by interviews with multiple people who met her at the resort.

“It wasn’t just dropping the family name. She talked about vineyards and family estates and growing up in Monaco,” said John LeFevre, a former investment banker and author.

LeFevre described gathering with her with other guests around a club pool on May 1.

By the next day, Yashchyshyn had access to the former U.S. president, Republican U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and other political luminaries Trump regularly attracts to his Florida home, the epicenter of today’s Republican Party.

Yashchyshyn said in sworn statements made as part of her U.S. court dispute with her former partner Tarasenko that she has never used another name and has not broken any laws. In an interview with the Post-Gazette, she said she did not know Anna de Rothschild.

“I think there is some misunderstanding,” she said.

Yashchyshyn said any passports or driver’s licenses with the Rothschild name and her photo had been fabricated by Tarasenko or his family.

“That’s all fake, and nothing happened,” she said.

OCCRP and the Post-Gazette sent detailed questions to Yashchyshyn and her lawyer Andrew J. Smallman. They declined to respond.

Rubbing Shoulders, Pitching Plans

The path that led Yashchyshyn to Mar-a-Lago and Trump’s side was years in the making. It saw her become involved with a fraudulent charity, make trips to the Caribbean, and woo various high rollers with would-be business ideas.

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This undated photo obtained by OCCRP shows Inna Yashchyshyn (right) with the late Charles L. Ward (center), a luxury goods marketer and polo enthusiast from Texas who died in June 2021.

Among those she met along the way were the property developer Paul Barton and Trump supporter Elchanan “Elki” Adamker, the founder of a New York financial services company.

Barton said he was introduced to her by two real estate brokers, and knew her as Inna Yashchyshyn, and his family company paid for her to fly several times on private jets to a luxury project they were developing in the Bahamas. He said he offered her a chance to come in on a deal to sell properties in a sprawling development for $55 million and receive a commission, though in the end this never happened.

She told Barton she was involved in projects including a Formula One race track in Miami, a high-rise hotel in Monaco and a condo project in Montreal. She rubbed shoulders with the A-listers, appearing in photos with rapper and entrepreneur Ray J and Argentinian-born car engineer Horacio Pagani.

“We always thought her grandfather had the money and that he was an oligarch,” said Barton.

It was Adamker who invited Yashchyshyn to join him for a gathering at Mar-a-Lago, where she arrived in her 2021 Mercedes G-Wagon on May 1, 2021. He did not respond to requests for comment.

It is unclear whether she met that day with Trump, who was preparing to launch a golf fundraiser to raise money for the midterm elections.

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Credit: Jose More/VWPics/Alamy Stock Photo Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida.

The fundraiser was held the next day at Trump International Golf Club, a few miles from Mar-a-Lago. Trump posed with Yashchyshyn for several photos there. In one frame, she stood alongside Trump and Graham, all three smiling and gesturing with their thumbs up. Later, a guest joked with her that he would charge her a hefty fee for the photos.

“Anna, you’re a Rothschild — you can afford $1 million for a picture with you and Trump,” the man said in a video obtained by the Post-Gazette and OCCRP.

She then drove some of the guests back to Mar-a-Lago. There she was joined by others, including Adamker, Trump campaign donor Richard Kofoed, and Kimberly Guilfoyle, the girlfriend of Donald Trump, Jr.

Several people at the gathering ended up having dinner at a nearby Italian restaurant. A group photo shows the woman they knew as Anna standing behind a seated Guilfoyle, hands on the back of her chair, and Kofoed standing nearby.

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The group dinner after the golf fundraiser. Standing, from left: John LeFevre, Gary DeMel, Richard Kofoed and Ms. Yashchyshyn presenting herself as “Anna de Rothschild.” Seated, from left: Linh DeMel, wife of Gary DeMel; Stacy Kofoed, wife of Richard Kofoed, and their daughter Cassidy; Kimberly Guilfoyle, girlfriend of Donald Trump Jr.; Caroline Wren, former Trump fundraiser; unidentified girlfriend of Isaac Bawany; Isaac Bawany; and Elchanan Adamker.

Kofoed declined to discuss Yashchyshyn. Trump Organization officials and campaign colleagues of Guilfoyle did not respond to requests for her to comment. Graham’s office declined to comment.

LeFevre and three other guests interviewed for this story said Yashchyshyn repeatedly told people she was a Rothschild, “and everyone was eating it up,” he said.

One frequent guest who organizes political events for Trump told the Post-Gazette, on the condition of anonymity, that the following week, Yashchyshyn was invited to a fundraiser for former Missouri governor Eric Greitens held in an oceanfront mansion near Mar-a-Lago owned by Trump.

Weeks earlier, Greitens — who was forced to resign from the governorship in 2018 after being accused of blackmailing a woman with a nude photo — had announced his Senate bid, appointing Guilfoyle as his national campaign chair.

Greitens signed four of his books for “Anna,” records and interviews show.

“For Anna,” he wrote in one, “Stay strong!!”

From Inna to Anna

It’s unclear exactly when Inna Yashchyshyn came to the U.S. and began using the name Anna de Rothschild.

She doesn’t have much of a public footprint, but has been a permanent U.S. resident for at least a decade, according to a lengthy deposition she herself recently offered in a U.S. court case. Her parents live in a Chicago suburb, and Yashchyshyn has spent time in the Montreal area as well as Miami.

Reporters have seen copies of fake U.S. and Canadian passports in the name of Anna de Rothschild bearing Yashchyshyn’s photograph, though she insists she had nothing to do with making them.

OCCRP and the Post-Gazette have learned that both the FBI’s office in Miami and the Sûreté du Québec provincial police in Canada have launched investigations that touch on her dealings.

The FBI refused to comment on whether Yashchyshyn was under investigation, but the Sûreté du Québec confirmed its major crimes unit launched an investigation into her in February. It said it could not provide additional details.

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A logo used by United Hearts of Mercy on its Facebook page.

The FBI probe may involve a charity she led, United Hearts of Mercy. Three people who live in South Florida confirmed to OCCRP and the Post-Gazette that they’ve been interviewed by the FBI about her in the past seven months, and all said they were questioned about the charity, which also has a Canadian branch previously led by Tarasenko.

Founded in 2010 in Canada and 2015 in Miami, United Hearts of Mercy claims on its Facebook page to help “release children from spiritual, social, economic, and physical poverty” in Africa, the U.S., Canada, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic.

Because the Miami charity claimed it was a small entity with revenues under $50,000, it didn’t have to publicly disclose the amount of money it took in and spent.

But United Hearts actually took in over $200,000 in 2020, according to its own internal documents.

The charity’s certified public accountant, Tatiana Verzilina, made a sworn statement in December 2021 that was turned over to the FBI, alleging that the charity was actually a source of illicit funds for organized crime.

Verzilina alleged in the statement, obtained by the Post-Gazette and OCCRP, that she helped set up the Stripe account for the charity, only to begin receiving “voice messages from unknown numbers with accents that if I do not return money, I and my family will be harmed and killed.” She said her family in Russia — where she is now living — received threats too.

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Credit: OCCRP Documents show the United Hearts of Mercy charity was co-founded in Canada in 2010 by Valeriy Tarasenko, with a listed address at this downtown Montreal condo complex, which is still home to relatives of his.

Via Facebook posts, the charity solicited donors to help get money to victims of Hurricane Matthew in Haiti in 2016, and to struggling families in the neighboring Dominican Republic. It’s not clear where the funds actually went. Similarly, at least $236,500 poured into the charity in just a few weeks after it launched a drive to raise money for families affected by Covid, records show. But it was soon cut off by payment processors over suspicions of fraud.

Stripe, Inc. determined that money flowing into the entity was generated from credit card numbers and bank accounts that were not authorized for use by the owners. Reporters from OCCRP emailed dozens of those pseudo-donors from Hong Kong, and every single email bounced back, suggesting they were fictitious or inactive email addresses employed to trick the payment processor.

Fundrazr.com, a payment platform for professional charities, confirmed to OCCRP that it shut down one of the charity’s funding drives, run under Verzilina’s name, from its site in April 2020 “after it failed internal fraud checks,” even before any money was collected.

Daryl Hatton of FundRazr said it booted United Hearts of Mercy because the charity’s lack of a convincing backstory, and the fact that some attempted donation amounts didn’t tally with how people would normally donate, raised suspicions.

“The story didn’t ring true,” he told OCCRP.

Nanny, or Not?

Yashchyshyn has admitted to working for Miami Mama, a controversial South Florida company that helped expectant Russian mothers give birth in the U.S. so they would gain citizenship, and as an “independent consultant” for Ambit Energy, a firm heavily fined in 2019 for defrauding customers.

She also forged close ties to Tarasenko, 44, a Moscow-raised businessman now working out of South Florida. In recent years, relations between Tarasenko and Yashchyshyn have soured, and they are currently embroiled in a bitter legal battle. She claims they were lovers; he denies it.

Tarasenko said he hired Yashchyshyn in 2014 as a nanny to care for his two daughters while he traveled on business. Yashchyshyn denied that, claiming in a court deposition that he had coerced her into wrangling funds from men she met “on the street or some restaurants or events or online.” These funds were then used, she said, to prop up their lifestyles.

“I would go on the dates, make a friendship, and Valeriy would take my phone and start contacting the guys from my phone and ask for the need for food, for pay the bills, ask for cash, you know,” she said.

The Post-Gazette and OCCRP talked to two men who confirmed they had been scammed out of thousands of dollars by Yashchyshyn. One of them was mentioned in the accountant’s statement shared with the FBI.

Embarrassed, the two men did not want their names used but confirmed they had lent her money that was never returned. One has confirmed he was interviewed by the FBI.

Tarasenko and Yashchyshyn were officers in at least two of the same companies in Florida. The Russian businessman, who was detained for carrying a police-style baton in a Moscow metro station in 1998, said he has met twice with FBI agents and discussed multiple trips Yashchyshyn made to Mar-a-Lago.

In February 2022, documents indicate Yashchyshyn resigned her positions at various Florida companies, including the U.S. wing of the United Hearts of Mercy.

She used “her fake identity as Anna de Rothschild to gain access to and build relationships with U.S. politicians[s], including but not limited to Donald Trump, Lindsey Graham, and Eric Greitens,” Tarasenko wrote in an affidavit filed on February 1 in Miami-Dade County. (An affidavit is a way to put something on the record when there is concern about potential litigation. It is not the same as a statement made under oath to the FBI or a prosecutor.)

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Yashchyshyn with Trump and Senator Lindsey Graham at Trump International Golf Club.

Among those who have spoken to the FBI about Yashchyshyn is her ex-husband Sergey Golubev. A Russian-born U.S. citizen, Golubev said he wed Yashchyshyn in 2011 so she could get U.S. residency but it was a marriage only on paper.

“At some point, she needed a permanent green card,” Golubev, 48, told the Post-Gazette. He added that he was interviewed by the FBI in February and that agents asked about allegations of something “illegal — cheating people and stealing money.”

The ex-husband insisted he had lost touch with her after their 2016 divorce and was unaware of her activities since then.

‘She Shouldn’t Have Been There’

Mar-a-Lago is simultaneously Trump’s primary residence, a resort for paying members, and a place where the former president has hosted fundraisers and even entertained world leaders.

Experts said the way Yashchyshyn entered Mar-a-Lago, gaining access to Trump’s immediate family and prominent politicians, was deeply troubling.

“It highlights the complexities of having a former president living within a larger club,” said Charles Marino, a security consultant who once served on the Secret Service details of Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.

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Credit: MediaPunch Inc/Alamy Stock Photo An aerial view of Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, taken in March 2021.

National security officials always worry about spies and turncoats accessing classified and top-secret materials of the sort that were removed by the FBI from Mar-a-Lago in early August. A few years ago, two different Chinese women — one of them toting two passports and a thumb drive with malicious software — were arrested in separate instances after entering the Mar-a-Lago grounds while Trump was president.

The FBI reportedly took some documents from Trump’s private residence within the complex, which is heavily guarded by the Secret Service. But other papers recovered during the raid were said to have been in a basement area, which is flood-prone and on the north side of the complex, a less secure area.

The openness of Mar-a-Lago calls for a more comprehensive level of protection and deeper background checks, said Ed Martin, a former Treasury Department special agent.

“That’s his residence. She shouldn’t have been there” said Martin.

“The question is was it a fraud or an intelligence threat? The fact that we are asking this question is a problem.”

– Charles Marino, security consultant

Yashchyshyn drove into Mar-a-Lago multiple times. It’s unclear what identification she provided, if any, to Mar-a-Lago’s staff. The guest-services office there referred calls to the Trump Organization, and emails and voicemails to several executives there went unanswered.

A basic background check might have shown that her driver’s license bearing the Rothschild name appeared to be valid. But a more comprehensive check would have shown that no such person exists, said former Secret Service agent Ron T. Williams.

“To maintain the operational integrity of our work, we are unable to comment specifically concerning the means, methods or resources used to conduct our protective operations,” Steven Kopek, a Secret Service spokesman, said in a statement to OCCRP and the Post-Gazette. ”As it pertains to Mar-a-Lago, which is a private club, you will have to refer to organizers when it comes to who may have been allowed access to their facilities.”

It wasn’t until March 2022 that members of the Trump entourage appear to have discovered Yashchyshyn’s real identity.

Dean Lawrence, a Florida music promoter and exotic car leasing agent, said he met with Trump insiders at Mar-a-Lago, where he said he surprised them with the news. He knew Inna from her company Rothschild Media Label, which was promoting Tarasenko’s then-teenaged daughter, who uses “Sofiya Rothschild” as a stage name.

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Credit: @sofiyarothschild/Instagram Yashchyshyn, left, and Tarasenko’s daughter are seen with musicians in Miami.

The evening started, he said, with a dinner that included the former president and the rappers Ray J and Kodak Black. Rudy Giuliani and former New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik also attended, Lawrence said.

Later that evening he told Kofoed and Caroline Wren, a former national adviser for the Trump campaign, that Anna de Rothschild was an imposter. He recalled saying, “I want to clear something up with you. I want you to know that she has nothing to do with the Rothschilds. Don’t get involved in any kind of business with her.”

As he divulged the information to Kofoed, “his eyes were wide open,” said Lawrence. “He said to me, ‘That’s exactly who I met. She came to my house.’”

Lawrence was perplexed why he was the one who was telling Trump insiders about a potential breach and not the people guarding the former president and his family.

“What I’m trying to understand is how did they allow this?’’ he asked. “How could someone keep coming back — at that level? This is Mar-a-Lago.”

Marino said the sheer number of unanswered questions about the Anna de Rothschild affair was troubling.

“The question is was it a fraud or an intelligence threat? The fact that we are asking this question is a problem.” he said.

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Research on this story was provided by OCCRP ID. Fact-checking was provided by the OCCRP Fact-Checking Desk.

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FBI probes Ukrainian-born ‘heiress’ who posed as Rothschild, gained access to Trump

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The FBI has launched an investigation into the business dealings of a Ukrainian-born woman who reportedly posed as a member of the Rothschild family, the famous Jewish international banking dynasty, and who appeared to have gained access to Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate and to the former US president himself under false pretenses.

An investigative piece published Friday by the Organized Crime & Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) together with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette detailed how 33-year-old Inna Yashchyshyn, a Russian-speaking immigrant to the US born in Ukraine, presented herself as banking heiress “Anna de Rothschild” and inflitrated Trump’s Florida resort, mingling with guests at the private members’ club, posing for photos with Trump, US Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and others at Mar-a-Lago functions.

The estate is currently at the center of an FBI investigation into Trump’s unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents, some of them top secret, at the property.

According to the joint report, Yashchyshyn is the daughter of an Illinois truck driver and it is unclear when she arrived in the US. Reporters of the publications posted photos of fake US and Canadian passports in the name of Anna de Rothschild bearing Yashchyshyn’s photograph, though she has denied involvement.

The FBI office in Miami and the Sûreté du Québec provincial police in Canada have launched investigations into Yashchyshyn’s dealings, specifically in relation to a charity called United Hearts of Mercy, first founded in Montreal, Canada by Moscow businessman Valery Tarasenko in 2010 with a branch in Miami in 2015. The charity claimed it helps lift children “from spiritual, social, economic, and physical poverty” in various parts of the world, the report said.

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Yashchyshyn and Tarasenko are engaged in a complex, bitter legal dispute and have filed domestic violence injunctions in Florida against each other. Yashchyshyn claimed she and Tarasenko were in a relationship and that he coerced her into a scheme to wrangle funds from various mean, accusations Tarasenko denies.

???? #Russian spy pretending to be a “Rothschild” totally and completely infiltrated #Trump‘s inner circle & had access to #MarALago.
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This dispute appears to have revealed details about Yashchyshyn’s access to Mar-a-Lago in May 2021 for unclear reasons, according to the report.

An affidavit filed in Miami by Tarasenko in February, and cited in the report, said Yashchyshyn used “her fake identity as Anna de Rothschild to gain access to and build relationships with U.S. politicians[s], including but not limited to Donald Trump, Lindsey Graham, and Eric Greitens,” in reference to the former Missouri governor.

According to the report, Yashchyshyn played an imposter Rothschild convincingly, according to guests who met her at the estate.

“It wasn’t just dropping the family name. She talked about vineyards and family estates and growing up in Monaco,” John LeFevre, a former investment banker and author who was at Mar-a-Lago in May 2021, told the publications.

She arrived around May 1 last year at the invitation of a connection she met through the charity, the report said. The next day, she was invited to a fundraiser at the Trump International Golf Club, near Mar-a-Lago, where she posed for pictures with Trump, Graham, and others. Later that day, she reportedly fraternized with a number of Trump associates, including Kimberly Guilfoyle, the girlfriend of Donald Trump, Jr, and dined with them.

A photo obtained by the publications showed a group of people posing for the image at a restaurant including Yashchyshyn, standing behind a seated Guilfoyle.

The incident raises questions about access to Mar-a-Lago, which is both Trump’s residence and a private members club.

Charles Marino, a security consultant who once served on the Secret Service details of Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, told the publications that the possible breach “highlights the complexities of having a former president living within a larger club.”

Police direct traffic outside an entrance to former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, Monday, August 8, 2022, in Palm Beach, Fla. Trump said in a lengthy statement that the FBI was conducting a search of his Mar-a-Lago estate and asserted that agents had broken open a safe. (AP Photo/Terry Renna)

“The question is was it a fraud or an intelligence threat? The fact that we are asking this question is a problem,” added Marino

The FBI launched an unprecedented raid of Trump’s palatial Florida home earlier this month under the authority of the Justice Department, which is investigating potential violations of multiple laws, including an Espionage Act statute that governs gathering, transmitting or losing national defense information. The other laws deal with the mutilation and removal of records as well as the destruction, alteration or falsification of records in federal investigations.

On Friday, the FBI released an affidavit indicating that the raid was triggered by a review of 15 boxes of records previously surrendered by the former president that contained top secret information — including about human intelligence sources.

According to the affidavit, the FBI opened the investigation after the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) received 15 boxes of records in January 2022 that had been improperly removed from the White House and taken to Mar-a-Lago. It said sensitive National Defense Information was among the records recovered including 67 documents marked as confidential, 92 as secret and 25 as top secret

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Putin still wants most of Ukraine, war outlook grim -U.S. intelligence chief

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WASHINGTON, June 29 (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin still wants to seize most of Ukraine, but his forces are so degraded by combat that they likely can only achieve incremental gains in the near term, the top U.S. intelligence officer said Wednesday.

Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, outlining the current U.S. intelligence assessment of the more than four-month war, said that the consensus of U.S. spy agencies is that it will grind on “for an extended period of time.”

“In short, the picture remains pretty grim and Russia’s attitude toward the West is hardening,” Haines told a Commerce Department conference.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelinskiy this week told U.S. President Joe Biden and other G7 leaders that he wants the war over by the end of the year.

But Haines’ comments suggested that the billions of dollars in modern arms being supplied by the United States and other countries to Zelinskiy’s forces may not give them the ability to turn the tide against Russia any time soon.

She said that Putin remains intent on overruning most of Ukraine even though Ukrainian forces beat back Russia’s attempt to capture the capital Kyiv in February, forcing Moscow to reduce its target to seizing the entire eastern Donbas region.

“We think he has effectively the same political goals that we had previously, which is to say that he wants to take most of Ukraine,” Haines said.

Russian forces, however, have been so degraded by more than four months of combat that it is unlikely they can achieve Putin’s goal any time soon, Haines said in her first public assessment of the war since May.

“We perceive a disconnect between Putin’s near-term military objectives in this area and his military’s capacity, a kind of mismatch between his ambitions and what the military is able to accomplish,” she said.

Haines said U.S. intelligence agencies see three possible scenarios, the most likely being a grinding conflict in which Russian forces “make incremental gains, with no breathrough.”

The other scenarios include a major Russian breakthrough and Ukraine succeeding in stabilizing the frontlines while achieving small gains, perhaps near the Russian-held city of Kherson and other areas of southern Ukraine.

It will take years for Russia to rebuild its forces, she said.

“During this period, we anticipate that they’re going to be more reliant on assymetric tools that they have, such as cyber attacks, efforts to control energy, even nuclear weapons in order to try to manage and project power and influence globally,” Haines said.

“In the interim, Russian troops are unlikely to be able to conduct multiple simultaneous operations,” Haines continued.

Putin’s priority now, she said, is making gains in the Donbas region and collapsing Ukrainian forces, a development that Russia assesses will “cause the resistance from within to slump.”

Haines’ comments came after a summit of NATO leaders on Wednesday branded Russia the most “direct threat” to alliance security and vowed to modernize Kyiv’s forces, saying it stood behind their “heroic defense of their country.” read more

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Ukraine, the United States and other countries say Russia is conducting an unjustified war of aggression against its neighbor.

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Trump search: What may come next in inquiry with legal peril

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WASHINGTON (AP) — A newly released FBI document helps flesh out the contours of an investigation into classified material at former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate. But plenty of questions remain, especially because half the affidavit, which spelled out the FBI’s rationale for searching the property, was blacked out.

That document, which the FBI submitted so it could get a warrant to search Trump’s winter home, provides new details about the volume and top secret nature of what was retrieved from Mar-a-Lago in January. It shows how Justice Department officials had raised concerns months before the search that closely held government secrets were being illegally stored and before they returned in August with a court-approved warrant and located even more classified records at the property.

It all raises questions whether a crime was committed and, if so, by whom. Answers may not come quickly.

A department official this month described the investigation as in its early stages, suggesting more work is ahead as investigators review the documents they removed and continue interviewing witnesses. Intelligence officials will simultaneously conduct an assessment of any risk to national security potentially created by the documents being disclosed.

At a minimum, the investigation presents a political distraction for Trump as he lays the groundwork for a potential presidential run.

Then there’s the obvious legal peril.

A look at what’s next:

WHAT IS THE FBI INVESTIGATING?

None of the government’s legal filings released so far singles out Trump — or anyone else — as a potential target of the investigation. But the warrant and accompanying affidavit make clear the investigation is active and criminal in nature.

The department is investigating potential violations of multiple laws, including an Espionage Act statute that governs gathering, transmitting or losing national defense information. The other laws deal with the mutilation and removal of records as well as well as the destruction, alteration or falsification of records in federal investigations.

The inquiry began quietly with a referral from the National Archives and Records Administration, which retrieved 15 boxes of records from Mar-a-Lago in January — 14 of which were found to contain classified information. All told, the FBI affidavit said, officials found 184 documents bearing classification markings, including some suggesting they contained information from highly sensitive human sources. Several had what appeared to be Trump’s handwritten notes, the affidavit says.

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The FBI has spent months investigating how the documents made their way from the White House to Mar-a-Lago, whether any other classified records might exist at the property. The bureau also has tried to identify the person or people “who may have removed or retained classified information without authorization and/or in an unauthorized space,” the affidavit states.

So far the FBI has interviewed a “significant number of civilian witnesses,” according to a Justice Department brief unsealed Friday, and is seeking “further information” from them. The FBI has not identified all “potential criminal confederates nor located all evidence related to its investigation.”

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WILL ANYONE BE CHARGED?

It’s hard to say at this point. To get a search warrant, federal agents must persuade a judge that probable cause exists to believe there’s evidence of a crime at the location they want to search.

But search warrants aren’t automatic precursors to a criminal prosecution and they certainly don’t signal that charges are imminent.

The laws at issue are felonies that carry prison sentences.

One law, involving the mishandling of national defense information, has been used in recent years in the prosecution of a government contractor who stowed reams of sensitive records at his Maryland home (he was sentenced to nine years in prison) and a National Security Agency employee who transmitted classified information to someone who was not authorized to receive it (the case is pending).

Attorney General Merrick Garland hasn’t revealed his thinking on the matter. Asked last month about Trump in the context of a separate investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol, he responded that “no person is above the law.”

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WHAT HAS TRUMP ARGUED?

Trump, irate over the records investigation, issued a statement Friday saying that he and his team have cooperated with the Justice Department and that his representatives “GAVE THEM MUCH.”

That’s at odds with the portrayal of the Trump team in the affidavit and the fact that the FBI search occurred despite warnings months earlier that the documents were not being properly stored and that there was no safe location for them anywhere in Mar-a-Lago.

A letter made public as part of the affidavit forecasts the arguments the Trump legal team intends to advance as the investigation proceeds. The May 25 letter from lawyer M. Evan Corcoran to Jay Bratt, the head of the Justice Department’s counterintelligence, articulates a robust, expansive view of executive power.

Corcoran asserted that it was a “bedrock principle” that a president has absolute authority to declassify documents — though he doesn’t actually say that Trump did so. He also said the primary law governing the mishandling of classified information doesn’t apply to the president.

The statute that he cited in the letter was not among the ones the affidavit suggests that Justice Department is basing its investigation on. And in a footnote in the affidavit, an FBI agent observed that the law about national defense information does not use the term classified information.

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WHAT HAS THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION SAID?

The White House has been notably circumspect about the investigation, with officials repeatedly saying they will let the Justice Department do its job.

The director of national intelligence, Avril Haines, notified Congress on Friday that her office would lead a classification review of the documents recovered during the search. Intelligence officials will also conduct an assessment of any potential risk to national security, Haines wrote the leaders of two House committees who had requested it.

In the letter, Haines said any intelligence assessment will be “conducted in a manner that does not unduly interfere with” the criminal investigation.

President Joe Biden appeared Friday to mock the idea that Trump could have simply declassified all the documents in his possession, telling reporters, “I just want you to know I’ve declassified everything in the world. I’m president I can do — c’mon!”

He then said he would “let the Justice Department take care of it.”

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FBI probing woman who posed as Rothschild heiress at Mar-a-Lago

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Published: 19:42 BST, 26 August 2022 | Updated: 02:12 BST, 27 August 2022

A Ukrainian woman posing as a member of the Rothschild banking dynasty successfully infiltrated Mar-a-Lago and former President Donald Trump‘s inner circle  – and is now being investigated by the FBI and Canadian authorities. 

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project revealed the alleged antics of the faker – whose real name is Inna Yashchyshyn – on Friday.

Yaschyshyn, 33, told Florida socialites she was heiress Anna de Rothschild, and was ‘fawned all over’ by guests at Trump’s private club after bragging of her Monaco property portfolio and family vineyards, it’s claimed. 

But the alleged scammer is actually the Ukrainian-born daughter of a truck driver called Oleksandr Yaschysyn, who lives in a neat-but-modest home in Buffalo Grove, Illinois. 

Yaschyshyn is believed to have been taken to the club for the first time by a Trump donor called Elchanan Adamker in 2021 – and posed for a photo with the former president the very next day. 

She is accused of obtaining fake IDs – including a US passport and multiple drivers’ licenses – using her fake Rothschild alter ego.  

Yaschushyn faces an FBI probe over a charity she was president of called the United Hearts of Mercy. It was founded by a Florida-based Russian businessman called Valery Tarasenko in Canada in 2015, but is alleged to have been used as a front to fundraise for Russian organized crime gangs. 

The FBI has photographs of Inna Yashchyshyn (left) and former President Donald Trump, Sen. Lindsey Graham and Kimberly Guilfoyle, a report from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project said 

Yaschushyn is currently embroiled in a separate lawsuit with Tarasenko, whose daughter she used to babysit, and claims she has been framed by him. She has also been tied to a condo development in Canada, although further details of what cops in Quebec are investigating her for have yet to emerge. 

Tarasenko says Yaschushyn cared for his children while he traveled on business, and claims she was keen to make in-roads at Mar-a-Lago to find rich benefactors. It is unclear if Tarasenko himself faces a probe. 

Yaschushyn in turn claims she is the victim, and that Tarasenko set her up by producing multiple fake IDs without her knowledge.  

The United Hearts of Mercy positioned itself as a nonprofit which helped impoverished children, but the FBI believes it was actually a front to funnel cash to organized crime gangs. 

Payment processing firm Stripe suspended donations to the United Hearts of Mercy’s purported COVID appeal.

Emails sent by the Post-Gazette to supposed donors in Hong Kong all bounced back, suggesting those donors may never have existed. 

The story comes out as intrigue continues to swirl around the August 8 raid of Mar-a-Lago over the presence of classified documents at the ex-president’s home and private club – and highlights whether those materials were secure if a fraudster was able to infiltrate Trump’s social circle. 

Yashchyshyn and her infiltration into the inner circle was laid out in a report from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project. It also included photos and videos of her playing at Trump’s Palm Beach golf club

The Secret Service wouldn’t comment on whether they were investigating Yashchyshyn, nor would the FBI – but several sources said they had been questioned by FBI officials about Yashchyshyn’s behavior.

Canadian law enforcement confirmed Yashchyshyn has been the subject of a major crimes unit investigation in Quebec since February, the Post-Gazette reported. 

The United Hearts of Mercy was founded in Canada by Tarasenko, although it’s still unclear whether Yaschyshyn is being probed there over that nonprofit. She was also linked to a condo development in the country. 

Yashchyshyn started showing up at Mar-a-Lago last spring. The Post-Gazette reported she was first invited by Trump supporter Elchanan Adamker, who runs a financial services firm, to Mar-a-Lago for the first time in May 2021.

Yashchyshyn started showing up at Mar-a-Lago last spring, with guest John LeFevre, a former investment banker, recalling meeting her by the club’s pool on May 1, 2021 after she arrived driving a Mercedes-Benz SUV

‘It wasn’t just dropping the family name. She talked about vineyards and family estates and growing up in Monaco,’ recalled LeFevre. ‘It was a near-perfect ruse and she played the part.’ 

He added that ‘everyone was eating it up’ and Mar-a-Lago members ‘fawned all over her and because of the Rothschild mystique, they never probed and instead tiptoed around her with kid gloves .’

By the next day, Yashchyshyn was rubbing shoulders with Trump and Sen. Lindsey Graham at the president’s nearby West Palm Beach golf club.

The report included photographs of Yashchyshyn, Trump and Graham, as well as her in a group shot with Donald Trump Jr.’s fiancee Kimberly Guilfoyle. 

The Post-Gazette also shared images of Yashchyshyn’s various IDS – passports from the U.S. and Canada, along with a Florida driver’s license, in which she uses the Rothschild name – as well as Ukrainian and Russian passports where she goes by Inna Yashchyshyn and Anna Anisimova, respectively.  

Video from the day she met with Trump proves the ruse was in play, as a man notes, ‘Anna, you’re a Rothschild.’ 

‘You can afford a million dollars for a picture with you and Trump. I’ll tell you want. If you make the next shot, and you hit that cart all the way down there on the left, I’ll give it to you for half a million,’ he says while she hits golf balls. 

When speaking to the Post-Gazette, however, she said, ‘I think there is some misunderstanding.’ 

Yashchyshyn said any passports or driver’s licenses using the Rothschild name had been fabricated by her former business partner, 44-year-old Valeriy Tarasenko. 

Yashchyshyn started showing up at Mar-a-Lago in May of last year where ‘she talked about vineyards and family estates and growing up in Monaco,’ on prominent guest said 

The report of a fraudster gaining access to Mar-a-Lago comes as intrigue continues to swirl around the August 8 raid of former President Donald Trump’s (pictured) Florida home and private club 

‘That’s all fake, and nothing happened,’ Yashchyshyn said. 

The various IDs have been turned over to the FBI, the Post-Gazette said. 

Yashchyshyn also said she was speaking to the FBI on August 19.  

The Florida driver’s license shows an address for a mansion where Yashchyshyn never resided. 

Adding another layer of complexity, she and Tarasenko are in a legal dispute, with him accusing her of being a grifter who took advantage of older men and was abusive toward his daughter – a claim she denies. 

She claimed in court that Tarasenko was a violent criminal who previously held her hostage. 

Both had connections to a fraudulent charity, the paper found.  

Their legal battle is shedding more light on any investigation into Yashchyshyn. 

Tarasenko told the Post-Gazette he’s met twice with the FBI to discuss Yashchyshyn’s trips to Mar-a-Lago. 

In court documents Tarasenko said that Yashchyshyn used ‘her fake identity as Anna de Rothschild to gain access to and build relationships with U.S. politician[s], including but not limited to Donald Trump, Lindsey Graham, and Eric Greitens.’ 

Greitens, the disgraced former governor of Missouri, recently lost a Republican primary race to the state’s open Senate seat. 

Greitens held a fundraiser at a mansion nearby Mar-a-Lago, owned by Trump, where Yashchyshyn was also invited, the Post-Gazette said. 

LeFevre also recalled Yashchyshyn hanging out with Guilfoyle and several other Trump donors after driving people back to Mar-a-Lago from the golf fundraiser where she met Trump and Graham.  

‘We hung out at the pool, like, three or four hours, just drinking rosé and having a great time,’ LeFevre said.  

Yashchyshyn’s ex-husband, 48-year-old Russian-born U.S. citizen, Sergey Golubev, also said he had spoken to the FBI. 

He said he wed Yashchyshyn in 2011 so she could obtain U.S. residency, and subsequently divorced in 2016. 

DailyMail.com has contacted him for further comment. It’s unclear why Yashchyshyn needed a green card if her father already lives in the US.  

He told the Post-Gazette that the agents were looking for her in connection with something ‘illegal – cheating people and stealing money,’ Golubev alleged. 

Eventually members of Trump’s inner circle were informed Yashchyshyn was a fraud by Dean Lawrence, a Florida-based music creative director, when he was visiting Mar-a-Lago. 

He had met Yashchyshyn in her role as president of the Rothschild Media Label, which was promoting her business partner Tarasenko’s teenage daughter whose stage name is ‘Sofiya Rothschild.’ 

In pictures, ‘Sofiya Rothschild,’ never shows her face.  It appears that Lawrence realized Yaschyshyn was a fraud while dealing with her, and busted her to Mar-a-Lago members, who quickly closed ranks. 

‘I want to clear something up with you. I want you to know that she has nothing to do with the Rothschilds. Don’t get involved in any kind of business with her,’ he told the Post-Gazette he informed Trump campaign donor Richard Kofoed and Trump campaign official Caroline Wren. 

Lawrence said of Kofoed ‘his eyes were wide open.’ 

‘He said to me, “That’s exactly who I met. She came to my house,”‘ Lawrence recalled. 

Wren ‘created a group chat’ to warn others about the imposter. 

‘What I’m trying to understand is how did they allow this?’ Lawrence said. ‘How could someone keep coming back – at that level? This is Mar-a-Lago.’  

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FBI probing Ukrainian immigrant who posed as Rothschild heiress at Mar-a-Lago

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A Ukrainian woman posing as a member of the Rothschild banking dynasty successfully infiltrated the inner circle of Mar-a-Lago and former President Donald Trump and is now under investigation by the FBI and Canadian authorities.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project were out Friday with a report on 33-year-old Inna Yashchyshyn, who told Florida socialites she was heiress Anna de Rothschild, and was “pelted everywhere” by guests at Trump’s private club.

The story comes out as the intrigue surrounding the Aug. 8 Mar-a-Lago raid over the presence of classified documents in the ex-president’s home and private club continues to swirl — highlighting whether those materials were safe as a fraud. could infiltrate Trump’s social circle.

Inna Yashchyshyn (left), 33, posed as a member of the Rothschild banking dynasty and successfully infiltrated Mar-a-Lago and former President Donald Trump’s inner circle last year

The FBI has photos of Inna Yashchyshyn (right) and former President Donald Trump, Senator Lindsey Graham and Kimberly Guilfoyle, according to a report by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project.

Yashchyshyn began appearing in Mar-a-Lago last May, where “she talked about vineyards and family estates and growing up in Monaco,” said one prominent guest.

The report of a fraudster gaining access to Mar-a-Lago comes as intrigue surrounding the August 8 raid on former President Donald Trump’s home and private club (pictured) in Florida continues.

The Secret Service declined to say whether they were investigating Yashchyshyn, and neither did the FBI — but several sources said they had been questioned by FBI officials about Yashchyshyn’s behavior.

Canadian law enforcement officials have confirmed that Yashchyshyn has been the subject of a large-scale investigation by a unit in Quebec since February, the Post-Gazette reported.

Yashchyshyn appeared at Mar-a-Lago last spring, with guest John LeFevre, a former investment banker, who recalls meeting her at the club’s pool on May 1, 2021 after arriving in a Mercedes-Benz SUV.

“It wasn’t just dropping the family name. She talked about vineyards and family estates and growing up in Monaco,” LeFevre recalls. “It was an almost perfect ruse and she played the part.”

He added that “everyone ate it” and Mar-a-Lago members “crawled all over her and because of the Rothschild mystique they never probed and instead tiptoed around her wearing velvet gloves.”

The next day, Yashchyshyn stood shoulder to shoulder with Trump and Senator Lindsey Graham at the president’s nearby West Palm Beach Golf Club.

The report included photos of Yashchyshyn, Trump and Graham, as well as her in a group photo with Donald Trump Jr.’s fiancée, Kimberly Guilfoyle.

The Post-Gazette also shared images of Yashchyshyn’s various IDS – passports from the US and Canada, along with a driver’s license from Florida, in which she uses the Rothschild name – as well as Ukrainian and Russian passports she goes to by Inna Yashchyshyn and Anna Anisimova, respectively. .

Video of the day she met Trump proves the ruse was in play, as one man remarks, “Anna, you’re a Rothschild.”

“You can pay a million dollars for a picture with you and Trump. I’ll tell you you want. If you take the next shot and you hit that cart on the far left down there, I’ll give it to you for half a million,” he says as she hits golf balls.

However, when she spoke to the Post-Gazette, she said, “I think there’s a misunderstanding.”

Yashchyshyn said any passports or driver’s licenses bearing the Rothschild name were manufactured by her former business partner, 44-year-old Valeriy Tarasenko.

“It’s all fake and nothing happened,” Yashchyshyn said.

The various IDs have been turned over to the FBI, according to the Post-Gazette.

Yashchyshyn also said she spoke to the FBI on August 19.

The Florida driver’s license shows the address of a mansion where Yashchyshyn never lived.

To add another layer of complexity, she and Tarasenko are in a legal dispute, accusing her of being a con man who abused older men and insulted his daughter — a claim she denies.

She claimed in court that Tarasenko was a violent criminal who had previously held her hostage.

Both had connections to a fraudulent charity, the paper found.

Their legal battle sheds more light on any investigation into Yashchyshyn.

Tarasenko told the Post-Gazette that he spoke to the FBI twice to discuss Yashchyshyn’s trips to Mar-a-Lago.

In court documents, Tarasenko said Yashchyshyn “used her false identity as Anna de Rothschild to access and build relationships with the American politician.”[s]including but not limited to Donald Trump, Lindsey Graham and Eric Greitens.”

Greitens, the disgraced former governor of Missouri, recently lost a Republican primary to the state’s open Senate seat.

Greitens held a fundraiser at a mansion near Trump-owned Mar-a-Lago, where Yashchyshyn was also invited, according to the Post-Gazette.

LeFevre also recalled Yashchyshyn hanging out with Giulfoyle and several other Trump donors after driving people back to Mar-a-Lago from the golf fundraiser where she met Trump and Graham.

“We hung out by the pool for about three or four hours, drinking rosé and having a great time,” LeFevre said.

Yashchyshyn’s ex-husband, 48-year-old Russian-born American citizen, Sergey Golubev, also said he had spoken to the FBI.

He said he married Yashchyshyn in 2011 so she could get a US residency permit, then divorced in 2016.

He told the Post-Gazette that the agents were looking for her in connection with something “illegal – cheating people and stealing money,” Golubev claimed.

Ultimately, members of Trump’s inner circle were told Yashchyshyn was an impostor by Dean Lawrence, a Florida-based music creative director, when he visited Mar-a-Lago.

He had met Yashchyshyn in her role as president of the Rothschild Media Label, which advertised the teenage daughter of her business partner Tarasenko, whose stage name is “Sofiya Rothschild.”

In photos, ‘Sofiya Rothschild’ never shows her face.

‘I want to clarify something with you. I want you to know that she has nothing to do with the Rothschilds. Don’t do business with her,” he told the Post-Gazette he had informed Trump campaign donor Richard Kofoed and Trump campaign official Caroline Wren.

Lawrence said of Kofoed ‘his eyes were wide open’.

“He said to me, ‘That’s exactly who I met. She came to my house,” Lawrence recalls.

Wren has “created a group chat” to warn others of the impostor.

“What I’m trying to understand is how they allowed this?” said Laurens. ‘How can anyone keep coming back – at that level? This is Mar-a-Lago.’

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Putin’s favourite general, 68, jetted with UK-taught life coach, 36

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Published: 09:34 BST, 27 August 2022 | Updated: 09:34 BST, 27 August 2022

Glamorous life coach Evelina Levi, then 36, partied with the general at a five-star resort

A Russian army chief who served as Putin‘s bodyguard took luxury trips to Africa with young models and an anti-war life coach half his age, a new probe has revealed.

Five-star hotel general Viktor Zolotov, 68, partied with ’emotional intelligence expert’ and influencer Evelina Levi, then 36, at the Four Seasons Resort on the picturesque Indian Ocean islands after taking a private jet.

Zolotov is commander in chief of the Russian National Guard, which has lost tens of thousands of men in Ukraine since the beginning of Russia‘s invasion on February 24.

The news first published by anti-Putin unit the Dossier Centre comes after the Kremlin slammed Russians enjoying western luxuries.

Among others on the trip was Russian oligarch Boris Vaninsky, brought to Moscow by Putin soon after he won the presidency, whose food business has exclusive ties with the national guard.

Russian National Guard chief Zolotov (right) is pictured at a meeting with President Putin

Other guests on the luxury jaunt included the clothing entrepreneur partner of Zolotov’s son

Records show Vaninsky owned a luxury penthouse in London’s upscale Queen’s Gate.

Roman Gavrilov resigned shortly after Russia’s invasion amid a ‘corruption probe’

A day before the first of several exotic flight by General Zolotov on a Falcon 7Х business jet at a cost of some £150,000, a Russian government decree was signed confirming Vaninsky’s company Druzhba Narodov as sole supplier to Putin’s national guards.

The Dossier Centre is linked to exiled Kremlin foe Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a tycoon who was jailed for a decade before leaving the country.

Lt-Gen Roman Gavrilov, 45, was also present on the Seychelles getaway. 

He has since resigned since the war began amid an alleged corruption probe over funds allocated to the troops.

Zolotov’s son Roman, 42, and clothing entrepreneur Anastasia Buevich, 24, joined.

Other glamorous women included the founder of ArtLife project Anastasia Andreeva, 24 at the time of the trip, and her deputy Krestina Lantsova, then 27.

Evelina, who was taught in Manchester, claims to be an ’emotional intelligence’ life coach

Fashion model Anastasia Buevich was among the glamorous girls on the private jet jaunt

Details of the lavish 2017 jaunt emerged as the women left a trail of social media postings, it was claimed.

Zolotov’s presence was confirmed by several reliable sources, said the Dossier Centre, though pictures do not show him.

He is known to be close to Putin, who consults the supreme loyalist on war tactics, according to reports in Moscow.

Other generals come and go as Putin tires of them, but Zolotov has been by his side for years, the most high-ranking of multiple personal bodyguards who have been promoted by the Kremlin leader.

Ms Levi was educated at the Emotional Intelligence Academy in Manchester.

Glamorous Evelina has appeared to make anti-war statements since the start of the invasion

She has said: ‘I do brain plastic surgery. I teach people not only to correctly recognise emotions, but even to plan for their occurrence, in order to then direct them in the right direction.’

It is unclear how or why she was by the general’s side in paradise, but she said: ‘I am not a psychologist, I am not a matchmaker and, unlike many women, I do not have to put on a mask of a b***h.

‘I’m good with myself. I don’t solve your problems, I don’t care about your past.

‘It cannot be changed and there is no point in digging into it.

Life coach Evelina has said: ‘Unlike many women, I do not have to put on a mask of a b***h’

 Art curator Anastasia Andreeva was also present on the trip alongside the general and pals

‘I work with your future, changing your attitude to current situations and making you understand the true causes of negativity in your life.’

After the war broke out, she urged her followers not to ‘give in to panic’ nor ‘multiply hatred’.

She added: ‘Let there be peace.’

Zolotov’s grandson was educated at the UK’s Cranleigh School in Surrey, alongside close friends of Luiza Rozova, 19, Putin’s reported secret daughter who has vanished from social media since before the start of the war in Ukraine.

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