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Glover, Joanna (Juleanna Glover), 241
Godfather of the Kremlin: The Decline of Russia in the Age of Gangster Capitalism (Klebnikov), 18
Goldfarb, Alex, 175
Goldstein, Boris, 205
Goldstone, Rob, 201, 224, 229, 235–36, 239–41, 270
golf course construction, 207
Golubchik, Anatoly, 203, 270
Gongadze, Georgy, 171–72
Gorbachev, Mikhail, 35, 43, 44–45, 49, 60
Gordon, J. D., 248–49
Gordon, Ze’ev, 55n, 112
Gordon Gekko, 36
Gotti, John, 162
Grachev, Pavel, 96
Graff, Rhona, 229, 236
Grand Hyatt Hotel (formerly Commodore Hotel), 23, 25–26, 29, 113
greed
1980s US, 36–37
1990s Russia, 61
2000s, 166
Greenglass, David, 23
Gref, Herman, 77, 209
Griffin, Phil, 184
Group DF, 234
Groysman, Volodymyr, 245–46
Guccifer 2.0 (hacker), 246, 250, 254
gulag
release of hard-core criminals, 27, 32
vory v zakone (“thieves-in-law”), 31–32, 64, 83, 197
Gusinsky, Vladimir, 116–17, 160, 174, 223
Gyurcsány, Ferenc, 221
Hamburger, Tom, 253
Handzlik, Jan Lawrence, 157n–158n
Hannity, Sean, 226
Henry, James, 76, 203–04
Herbst, John, 180–81, 186
Hermitage Capital Management, 218
Hicks, Hope, 249
A Higher Loyalty (Comey), 4
High Rock Holdings Ltd., 111–12
Hoffen, Eugen von, 75n
Hopkins, Robert, 15, 26
Hotel Ukraine birthday gathering, 197–200
Hungary
FBI-Hungarian National Police Organized Crime Task Force, 108
Mogilevich’s business operations, 62–63, 84–87
Huxtable, Ada Louise, 11
Hyatt Corporation, 25–26
Hyde, Steve, 52–53
Ibragimov, Alijan, 140
Iceland’s financial collapse, 158
Inkombank, 86–87
Inshakov, Alexander, 83
intelligence
Steele Dossier regarding Trump giving US intelligence to Putin, 166–68, 213, 243–44
Trump as an asset of Putin, 4, 225
International Business Creations, 205
Internet Research Agency, 253, 256
Intourist, 49–50
Iorizzo, Lawrence, 8
ISIS, fighting, 220
Israel
citizenship for Russian mobsters, 62
Law of Return, 62
Mogilevich and Mikhailov summit, 89–90
Itera International Energy Corporation, 120
“It’s a Gas” investigation of the Turkmen-Ukraine gas trade, 112
Ivankov, Eduard, 84
Ivankov, Vyacheslav, 58, 59, 63–65, 68–69, 82–85, 89, 94, 114, 121, 197, 202, 224, 270
Izmaylovskaya Organized Crime Group (OCG), 164–65
Jackson, Henry M., 27
Jackson-Vanik Amendment, 27
Johnson, Enoch, 48
Johnston, David Cay, 12
Joly, Eva, 158
Jones Day law firm, 216–17
Judaism
anti-Semitism, 27, 115, 221
Chabad Lubavitch organization, 115–17, 144, 159–61, 167, 243, 260
Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia, 159–60
Hasidic movement, 116–17
Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union, 27, 36, 57
Jewish involvement in the Russian Mafia, 115
Putin’s relationships with Jews, 115–17, 160
REK (Rossiiskii Evreiskii Kongress), 115–16
Kaalbye Group, 200
Kalugin, Oleg, 16, 18, 28–29, 40–42, 50, 71–72, 101, 128, 176
Kartofelnikov, Alexei, 103
Kasich, John, 234–35
Kasowitz, Marc, 93n
Kasparov, Garry, 19
Katsyv, Denis, 218, 240
Kaveladze, Irakly, 205, 242–43, 270–71
Kendall, David, 135
Keyser Söze, 55
KGB. See also Russian FSB
character traits sought by, 69–70
creation of hundreds of front companies, 70–71, 144–45
First Chief Directorate (FCD), 46
Intourist, 49–50
need to recruit more American assets, 16, 28–29, 46–47
Oleg Kalugin’s experience in, 41–42
PGU division, 81n
Khodorkovsky, Mikhail, 75–76, 174, 193, 251
Khrapunov, Viktor, 157–58, 271
Kilimnik, Konstantin, 184–85, 233, 235, 243, 254, 271
Kilner, Scott F., 145–46
King, Peter, 163
Kirilenko, Anastasia, 85–86, 197–98
Kislin, Semyon, 29, 113, 114, 123, 159, 271–72
Kislyak, Sergey, 249–51, 272
Klebnikov, Musa, 173
Klebnikov, Paul, 18, 172–73, 177
kleptocracy, Putin’s authoritarian, 18–19, 76, 78–79
Knauss, Melania, 141
Kobzon, Iosif, 28, 34, 94, 199
Koch, Ed, 48, 52
Kogan, Aleksandr, 256
Kogan, Boris, 200
kompromat (compromising materials)
on Donald Trump, 3, 128, 213–14
“honey traps” for visiting politicians and businessmen, 50
on Viktor Orbán, 86, 196
on Yuri Skuratov, 101
Koulakovsky, Alexander, 119
Kovner, Victor A., 24
Kovtun, Dmitri, 178–79
Kranish, Michael, 130
Kravchenko, Yuriy, 172
Kravchuk, Leonid, 109
Kriss, Jody, 150
Kruse, Michael, 24
Kryuchkov, Vladimir, 46, 70–71, 127, 144
K Street lobbyists, 118–20, 217
Kuchma, Leonid, 80–81, 171–72
Kukes, Simon, 250–51, 272
Kumarin, Vladimir. See Barsukov, Vladimir
Kunitsin, Alexey, 154
Kursk submarine disaster, Putin’s handling of, 174
Kushner, Charles, 116, 160
Kushner, Jared, 116, 160, 161, 237, 239, 243, 250, 260
Kuzio, Taras, 187
Lauder, Leonard, 47
Lauria, Salvatore, 133
Lazar, Berel, 116–17, 159–61
Lazarenko, Pavlo, 110
LeBow, Bennett, 93, 272
le Carré, John, 41–42, 55
legal manipulation
Dima Yakovlev Bill (anti-Magnitsky law), 238
exploitation of loopholes in federal regulations by Fred Trump, 20–22
gas-tax-evasion scam of the 1980s, 6–10, 34–35, 82, 132
loans procured by fraud, 156
Roy Cohn’s “Favor Bank” to help Donald Trump, 23–26
Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act, 237–42
tax evasion charges against Bayrock, 155–56
“willful blindness” of Sater’s situation by Trump, 155–56
Legal Petersburg Today, 98
legal representation, notable, 120, 121n, 216–17
Legendary Hotel Sovietsky, 58
Lenin, Vladimir, 97
Lenin’s Tomb (Remnick), 40
Lenz, Dolly, 124
Le Pen, Marine, 17
Lerner, Richard, 132, 155
Letterone, 216
Leviev, Lev, 115–17, 123, 144, 159, 161, 167, 272–73
Levine, Morton, 32, 162
Levinson, Robert, 88
Levin-Utkin, Anatoly, 98
Lewandowski, Corey, 224, 230, 232–33, 235
Linkov, Ruslan, 105
Listyev, Vlad, 99
Litvinenko, Alexander, 18, 78, 98–100, 101n, 103, 175–79, 213
Litvinenko, Marina, 175, 17
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The Litvinenko Inquiry (report), 178–79, 213
lobbyists
Black, Manafort, Stone, & Kelly’s work with dictators, 181–83
Human Rights Accountability Global Initiative Foundation, 238
K Street, 118–20, 217
registration requirements, 186
Lorber, Howard, 93, 273
Lott, Trent, 216
Loutchansky, Gregori, 231n
Lown, Bernard, 44–45
loyalty conversation between James Comey and Donald Trump, 4–5
Lubyanka Building (Moscow), 97
Lucchese crime family, 15, 26, 162
Luciano, Charles (“Lucky”), 21–22, 162
Lucicle Consultants Limited, 187
Lugovoy, Andre, 178–79
Luzhkov, Yuri, 93–94, 155, 273
Lynch, Loretta, 136
Lytton Ventures, 203–04
Macierewicz, Antoni, 221–22
Magnitsky, Sergei, 18, 218, 237–38
Maher, Bill, 237
Malakhov, Vladimir, 164–65, 202
Malevsky, Anton, 114, 202
Manafort, Andrea. See Shand, Andrea Manafort
Manafort, Jessica, 190, 232, 233
Manafort, Paul
back channel to Putin, 235–44, 273
controversial lobbying activities, 181–83, 238
financial struggles, 232
lawsuit against, 166
money laundering, 187
questionable relations with Russians, 215, 231, 254, 273
secret deals to influence Russian politics, 185–86, 240–41, 254
as Trump’s campaign manager, 232–33, 235, 254
working for Yanukovych in Ukraine, 183–90, 219
work with Brad Zackson, 21
The Man Without a Face (Gessen), 69
Maples, Marla, 65, 141
Mar-a-Lago, 38
Marchuk, Yevhen, 109
Markov, Georgi, 42
Markowitz, Michael, 8–10, 82
Marlowe, Ann, 234
Mashkevich, Alexander, 140–41, 142–45, 273–74
Massoud, Ahmad Shah, 136
Maxwell, Robert, 62
McCain, John, 215, 252
McCallion, Kenneth, 126, 166–69, 185, 188
McCarthy, Joe, 23
McCarthy, Kevin, 245–47
McConnell, Mitch, 3, 216
McFaul, Michael, 219
McGahn, Don, 48n
McGahn, Joseph, 48
McGahn, Patrick (“Paddy”), 48–49
McLaughlin, John, 243
McNamara, Robert M., Jr., 135
media
censorship, 173–75, 222–23
mysterious deaths and assassinations of journalists, 18n, 171–74
reports about Russian cyber warfare, 253–54
Russian influence campaign regarding 2016 US presidential elections, 253–54
Russian journalists’ attempts to expose corruption, 177–79
Surkov’s fake news to benefit Putin, 193–94
2016 presidential election coverage and polling, 224–25, 234–35, 252, 259–62
Medvedev, Dmitry, 77, 78, 257
Meeks, Gregory, 242
Melnychenko, Mykola, 171–72
Mercer, Robert, 234
Mezhyhirya (Yanukoych’s estate), 181
Mifsud, Joseph, 230–31, 235
Mikhailov, Sergei, 58–59, 62, 63, 87–90, 114n, 145, 197–98, 274
Miller, Alexei, 77
Millian, Sergei, 127–28
Milov, Vladimir, 174
Mirax Group, 154–55
Miss Universe pageant, 92–93, 146, 204–06, 208–09, 211–12
Mitrokhin Commission, 175, 178–79
Mogilevich, Semion
alleged criminal activities and charges against, 56–60, 61–63, 81–82, 85–87, 89, 94, 107, 109, 110–11, 164, 166, 168–69, 175–76, 179, 217
alleged energy trade resources fraud, 189
Arbat International, 57–58, 59, 63, 86–87
assassination attempt on, 88
“the boss of bosses” of the Russian Mafia, 29–30
contempt for the US, 108, 234
globalization plans, 106–07, 110
Hotel Ukraine birthday gathering, 197–200
Hungarian and European operations, 62–63, 84–87, 221
interest in Vyacheslav Ivankov, 64
legal representation, 120, 121n
legitimate businesses, 58–59, 61–62
name variants, 57n
relationship with Dmitry Firtash, 111–13
relationship with Donald Trump, 199, 213–14, 225, 274
relationship with Felix Sater, 198–99
relationship with Putin, 81–82, 106–07, 175–76, 179, 196
reputation, 55, 84–85
return to Russia, 80–81
summit in Israel, 89–90, 106–07
money laundering, 3, 12–14, 56, 59, 61–63, 66–67, 87–88, 121–23, 125, 134, 135, 187, 201–04, 205–06, 211, 223–24
Montevecchi, Ernest (“Butch”), 29, 132, 162
Moody, James, 61
Moore, Martin, 257
Morell, Michael, 240
Moschella, William, 33
Moses, Robert, 21
Mueller, Robert, 156, 217
mysterious deaths and assassinations
Berezovsky, Boris, 174
Gongadze, Georgy, 171–72
Klebnikov, Paul, 18, 172–73, 177
Litvinenko, Alexander, 18, 178–79
Magnitsky, Sergei, 18
Politkovskaya, Anna, 18, 173–74, 177
Project Klebnikov, 173, 177
statistics, 18n, 172
Nahmad, Hillel, 204, 274–75
Nakashima, Ellen, 253
Nance, Malcolm, 253
Narducci, Frank, Jr., 48
National Rifle Association (NRA), 217
NATO
joining by 13 Eastern Bloc nations, 16, 106, 170
possibility of Ukraine joining, 248
Putin’s attack on Poland, 221
Nayfeld, Benjamin, 33, 34
Nayfeld, Boris, 33, 34
Nazarbayev regime of Kazakhstan, 157n–158n
Nektalov, Eduard, 123–24, 275
Nektalov, Roman, 124
Nemtsov, Boris, 223
Nevskaya, Marina, 119
New York City
Commodore Hotel (later Grand Hyatt Hotel), 23, 25–26, 29, 113
economic situation of the 1970s, 22–23
taxi medallion business, 164
New York (magazine), 26n
Niemczyk, Julian Martin, 53
Nikonov, Vyacheslav, 1, 263
9/11 terrorist attacks, 136–37
1980s Soviet Union
changes in global affairs policies, 60
economy, 13
1998 bombing strike against al-Qaeda, 135
1970s New York City, 22–23
Nix, Alexander, 251, 256–57
Nogueira, Alexandre Ventura, 146–47, 275
Nordex company, 80
nuclear arms
Trump’s desire to get involved in talks, 43–45
Nunes, Devin, 95
Obama, Barack
awareness of Russia’s interference in 2016 election, 5
blacklisting of the Rotenberg brothers in 2014, 69n
campaign donations, 239
Global Magnitsky Act, 239, 241–42
Hillary Clinton’s role in Obama’s cabinet, 219
Putin’s criticism of, Trump’s view regarding, 208
Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act, 237–38
Oberlander, Frederick, 151, 155, 156
O’Brien, Timothy, 155
Odinkova, Galina, 64
Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) report on 2016 elections, 227–28
Operation Meltdown, 124
Operation Red Daisy, 6–10, 8, 34–35, 82, 132
Operation Successor, 102–03
/> Orange Revolution, 171, 181
Orbán, Viktor, 86, 196, 221
Orbis Business Intelligence, 213
O’Reilly, Bill, 248
organized crime
2013 gambling ring arrest in Trump Tower, 201–04
differences between Italian Mafia and Russian Mafia, 35–36, 137
meetings of rival gangs, 89
Mitrokhin Commission, 175, 178–79
in New York, 6–11, 15, 21–22, 25, 83, 162–63
in Russia, 18–19, 218
Oronov, Alex, 164
Our Kind of Traitor (film), 55
Owen, Sir Robert, 178–19
Ozero dacha cooperative, 77, 242
Page, Carter, 230, 251, 275
Paltiel, Shalom, 161
Panorama (TV show), 56
Papadopoulos, George, 230–31, 235, 251, 275
Papp, Katalin, 62
Parker, Kyle, 242
Parscale, Brad, 234
Party of Regions, 180–81, 186, 188
Patrushev, Nikolai, 179
Patten, Sam, 233
pay-for-play political culture
K Street lobbyists, 118–20, 217
Russian operatives’ role in, 3
Perkins Coie law firm, 213
Persits, Lev, 8
Peskov, Dmitry, 209
PGU division of the KGB, 81n
Piatek, Tomasz, 221–22
Pifer, Steven, 109
Pileggi, Nicholas, 35–36
Pintér, Sándor, 86
Plame, Valerie, 149
The Plot to Hack America (Nance), 253
Podesta, John, 227, 231, 255–56, 257
Podesta, Tony, 231
Podesta Group, 231
Poland, Russia’s attacks on, 221–22
politicians targeted by Russia
Breaux, John, 216
Dole, Bob, 215
Lott, Trent, 216
McCain, John, 215
McConnell, Mitch, 3, 216
political action committees, 216
Republican and Democrat, 3, 215–16, 231n
Politkovskaya, Anna, 18, 173–74, 175, 177
Polo, Roberto, 15
polonium poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko, 178–79, 213
Polonsky, Sergei, 154–55, 167, 276
Pomerantsev, Peter, 191, 193
Portman, Rob, 249
Portsmouth Rotary Club event (NH primary), 52
Post, Henry, 26n
Powell, Colin, 181
presidential elections
announcement of Trump’s candidacy, 224–27
campaign donations, 239
debates between Clinton and Trump, 258–59
Trump compared to P.T. Barnum, 228–29
Trump’s testing of the political waters in the 1980s, 52–53
Prevezon Holdings, 218, 237, 240
Pribylovsky, Vladimir, 101
Priest, Dana, 253
Project Klebnikov, 173, 177
Prokhorov, Mikhail, 205
“pump-and-dump” stock schemes, 35, 84, 111, 133–34
Putin, Vladimir
allegations of pedophilia, 176–77, 179
attacks on Europe, 220–22
authoritarian kleptocracy, 18–19, 76, 78–79