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>> well, he had been working with the russian lawyer, natalia veselnitskaya, on a -- for a nonprofit that was lobbying to overturn the magnitsky act. this is a bill that passed congress in 2012 that contained a range of sanctions against russian business people who were believed to be linked to the death of this russian auditor. a guy named sergei magnitsky who up covered the fraud whoepdzed up with some litigation in the united states. the federal government brought charge against the perpetrators of this fraud. well, the sanctions infuriated vladimir putin and he wanted to see it overturned....
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