Sentences with phrase «russian blackmail»

The acting attorney general informed the Trump White House late last month that she believed Flynn had misled senior administration officials about the nature of his communications with the ambassador, and warned that the national security adviser was potentially vulnerable to Russian blackmail.

It was later reported that the acting attorney general, Sally Yates, had warned the White House in January that Flynn could be vulnerable to Russian blackmail, because US intelligence knew Pence had publicly mischaracterized Flynn's interactions with Kislyak.

A conscious effort by Trump to mislead the FBI director could lend weight to the allegation, contained in the private research dossier compiled by a former British spy in 2016, that Trump engaged in compromising activity during the trip that exposed him to potential Russian blackmail.

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«This was a problem because not only did we believe that the Russians knew this, but that they likely had proof of this information, and that created a compromise situation — a situation where the national security adviser essentially could be blackmailed by the Russians,» she said.

His resignation came after reports that some officials in the White House were worried Flynn might be blackmailed by the Russians.

Overwhelmingly, interviewees told AP they kept classified material out of their Gmail inboxes, but intelligence experts said Russian spies could use personal correspondence as a springboard for further hacking, recruitment or even blackmail.

Flynn resigned as national security adviser on Monday night after just 24 days on the job, the shortest tenure anyone has ever served in the role, amid revelations that he discussed sanctions with the Russian ambassador during the presidential transition period, and may be susceptible to foreign blackmail.

That prompted Lauer to cite the timeline laid out by the Post; that the Justice Department last month raised concerns about Flynn's truthfulness, going as far as to say the general could be blackmailed by Russians.

Former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates told a Senate Judiciary subcommittee earlier this year that she had warned the White House about Flynn's conversations with Kislyak so that the Trump administration «could take action» amid concerns that Flynn could be subject to blackmail by Russians.

As another side note, you mix a (completely unfounded) 1 claim of blackmail with changing «sixteen Chechens» from the very news you link to «sixteen Russians», probably to suggest some intervention of the Russian government in the Belgium attacks.

The White House also sought to explain yesterday why it had waited 18 days to fire Trump's former national security advisor, Michael Flynn, after acting U.S. Attorney Sally Yates warned the administration Flynn was vulnerable to blackmail by the Russians.

The lawyer for a Russian woman charged with blackmailing former Gov. Eliot Spitzer said that the disgraced former pol wielded «political influence» at the outset of the drama and should have been arrested.

Meanwhile president elect Donald Trump has been fending off claims that Russian secret services have a dossier about him which could be used for blackmail.

A Russian woman who was accused of blackmailing disgraced former Gov. Eliot Spitzer is seeking to lift a court - mandated gag order so she can talk about what she says are Spitzer's fetishes.

Spam that Russian scammers send on the dating sites Inna Y. is an absolutely beautiful blond woman currently facing twelve years in prison for a blackmailing scam.

Facing eviction and with no more healthcare for her sick mother (Joely Richardson), she is blackmailed by her Uncle Vanya (Matthias Schoenaerts) into working for him in Russian intelligence.

Red Sparrow is a throwback to old - fashioned, pre-Glasnost spy thriller paradigms, where the Russian bad guys work for the state, and train intelligence officers and other recruits in various forms of manipulation and blackmail in order to further the position of the Kremlin.

The rather convoluted plot revolves around a group of corrupt cops and legit criminals who are blackmailed by the nasty Irina Vlaslov of the Russian mafia (and of course when you mention them you naturally think of Kate Winslet) into taking on «one more job.»

In Triple 9, a crew of dirty cops is blackmailed by the Russian mob to execute a virtually impossible heist and the only way to pull it off is to manufacture a 999, police code for «officer down.»

«Triple 9» (Feb. 26): Woody Harrelson, Kate Winslet, Casey Affleck, Teresa Palmer and Aaron Paul are among the cast of «Triple 9,» a thriller that follows a group of criminals and corrupt cops who are being blackmailed by the Russian mob.

In the drama, a crew of dirty cops is blackmailed by the Russian mob to execute a virtually impossible heist.

When the disc containing said memoirs is lost at the gym and recovered by two gym employees (Frances McDormand and Brad Pit), all hell breaks loose — and that hell involves the Russian embassy, a thwarted blackmail scheme, and a surprising invention by Harry.

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Film Review by Kam Williams Ruthless Russian Mobsters Blackmail Crooked Cops in Riveting, High Body - Count Thriller Irina Vlaslov (Kate Winslet) assumed the reins of an Atlanta - based crime syndicate after her husband Vasili (Igor Komar) was sent up the river.

In Triple Nine, a crew of dirty cops is blackmailed by the Russian mob to execute a virtually impossible heist and the only way to pull it off is to manufacture a 999, police code for «officer down.»