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Man at Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting with Russian lawyer has SoCal connection
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Jul 19, 2017
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Man at Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting with Russian lawyer has SoCal connection
The eighth attendee at the June 2016 meeting was once subject to a congressional inquiry into Russian money laundering.
Donald Trump Jr., seen in the Trump Tower lobby in November 2016, met with a Russian lawyer after being promised damaging information about Hillary Clinton in June 2016.
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The eighth attendee at the June 2016 meeting was once subject to a congressional inquiry into Russian money laundering.

A closely watched story out of Washington has an unexpected connection to Southern California.

By now, you've probably heard a lot about that meeting last year between the president's son, Donald Trump Jr., and a Russian Lawyer offering damaging information about Hillary Clinton. Well, it must have been a crowded room: Now an eighth attendee has been identified.

He's an immigrant from Georgia with a home in Huntington Beach who does lots of business in Russia. 

David Cloud wrote about him for the LA Times. He joined Take Two with more. 

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