"The 3 attys leading the def team are Mark Filip of...Kirkland & Ellis, who served as Deputy AG...Richard Cullen of McGuireWoods, a VA-based law and crisis-management firm; and William Burck, co-managing partner of the DC office of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan."

https://twitter.com/seattletimes/status/1136973834865848321

h/t @loonyberg

@loonyberg #BillBarr 's Russia ties were the point

✅Barr's firm Kirkland & Ellis reps #AlfaBank

✅Also reps #OlegDeripaska (Manafort's boss)

✅Barr has finc'l interests in Vector Group (Lorber, Trump friend/Don Jr was on the phone w/on 6/9/16)

https://twitter.com/MsMariaT/status/1124381414089084928

@loonyberg Boeing and #Firtash:

https://twitter.com/MsMariaT/status/1136495752148967425

"How much money has Bill Barr’s law firm made from Putin mobligarchs Deripaska (Manafort’s master), Blavatnik (Mitch McConnell’s benefactor), & Vekselberg (Michael Cohen’s atm machine).

This is what’s really going on. Trump & his orbit are owned."

https://twitter.com/LincolnsBible/status/1124276696759193600

"Kirkland & Ellis is a huge firm, but @NatashaBertrand reported Barr got a waiver to participate in 1MDB case because K&E senior partner Mark Filip represents Goldman Sachs in 1MDB case"

https://twitter.com/WendySiegelman/status/1124067805492596740

@NatashaBertrand "The team....working for...Low includes...Christie...Marc Kasowitz; Bobby Burchfield, a lawyer who has served as...Trump Org’s outside ethics adviser; and Ed Rogers, a [DC] lobbyist w/close ties to the Republican Party."

https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/1041182415019028482

@NatashaBertrand Examples of lawyers laundering the proceeds of transnational organized crime, via "attorneys' fees."

"Kirkland & Ellis Partner Faces Senate Spotlight for Work With Russian Bank

Partner Brian Benczkowski, the nominee for the DOJ's Criminal Division, said he wouldn't have taken Alfa-Bank as a client looking back."

Uh huh.

at.law.com/RSU2ME?cmp=sha…

Mueller re TOC:

"These groups may infiltrate our businesses. They may provide logistical support to hostile foreign powers. They may try to manipulate those at the highest levels of government...."

"...Indeed, these so-called “iron triangles” of organized criminals, corrupt government officials, and business leaders pose a significant national security threat."

Robert S. Mueller, III
Director, FBI
New York City, New York
January 27, 2011

archives.fbi.gov/archives/news/…

Elliot Broidy, former @GOP fin chair - literally, the whale of them all.

GOP LOVES Transnational Organized Crime (TOC) - they FEED off it.

"Trump ally reportedly in talks to earn $75 million if he could get the US probe into #1MDB dropped"

cnbc.com/2018/03/03/1md…