(This was originally posted on Huffington Post but disappeared down the rabbit hole pretty damn fast. If true, which is easily provable, shows that this country is in some really big trouble. And it ain't just from the not-so-orange-anymore tiny fingered fool and his bunch that Clinton lost to.):

Luckily the intertubes has a long reach. This is a cached copy of the deleted article:

Jeremy Kuzmarov, Contributor
Historian, intellectual, political activist
Raising the Curtain on the Browder-Magnitsky Story
09/13/2017 01:26 am ET

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The 2012 Magnitsky Act was named after Browder’s lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, who according to Browder, had exposed a Russian government scam to rob taxpayers of $230 million by filing fictitious returns after seizing his company, and died in an Alcatraz-like prison awaiting trial on trumped up charges.

The story Browder tells would make for a good Hollywood thriller spotlighting government corruption and abuses in the Russian criminal justice system and the noble fight by a reformed “red” who gives up his lucrative business career to achieve redemption for his crusading friend caught up in a Kafkaesque nightmare.

If only the story were true.

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At the heart of the deception is Browder’s claim that Vladimir Putin, after Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s arrest in October, 2003, struck a deal with Russia’s oligarchs to grant them prosecutorial immunity in exchange for them giving Putin somewhere between thirty and seventy percent of their wealth. Browder qualifies this assertion by noting that “he wasn’t there” when Putin brokered this deal so “he was only speculating.” Thus he does not have direct proof.

And Browder has a motive for trying to smear Putin: he was found guilty in Russian court in 2013 of failing to pay 552 million rubles in taxes ($16 million) and illegally buying up shares in Gazprom, for which he was sentenced in absentia to nine years in prison.

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Magnitsky’s death was not covered up but reported on the front-page of Russian newspapers and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev ordered an investigation Browder claims was a whitewash. It led to the dismissal of twenty-one prison employees who were found guilty of negligence but not murder. A British Judge also significantly dismissed the claim that Pavel Karpov, a police officer Browder says was central to the whole conspiracy, had anything to do with Magnitsky’s death.

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Whether connected to the CIA or not, Browder’s story is filled with contradictions and inconsistencies that erode his credibility. His lobbying efforts have gone well beyond any attempt to obtain justice for his friend, Sergei, and have included verbal attacks on former Secretary of State John Kerry, a lukewarm supporter of the Magnitsky Act, whom Browder called “Putin’s lapdog” and purveyor of an “appeasement policy.”

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As is always asked when trying to sort out the motives for any type of cover-up or scam, 'chi bono'? Burying Browder's own illegal activities surely benefits him. It provides a convenient excuse to tar Russia as an enemy who's lies, hacking, and ability to brainwash stupid Americans and thereby denying the Clinton Creature her throne.

We ARE the old USSR. I wonder if Sir Paul could write us a song?