Dmitry Firtash Denies Russian Organized Crime Ties

WASHINGTON, Oct. 30, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Statement by Lanny J. Davis, attorney for Dmitry Firtash: 

The book, "House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia," written by Craig Unger and published by Penguin Random House, and the film, "Active Measures," directed and written by Jack Bryan and Marley Clements and produced by Bryan, Clements, and Laura Dubois, contain allegedly knowingly or recklessly false assertions about Dmitry Firtash. Indeed, the book's and movie's negative references to Mr. Firtash are unsupported by any proven facts — raw innuendo and guilt-by-association word-strings reminiscent of the ugly McCarthyism of the 1950's. 

Mr. Firtash has never had any business dealings with Semion Mogilevich and has never been involved in any organized criminal activities. These and other allegedly knowingly or recklessly false allegations made in the book and film, for example, that Mr. Firtash is somehow a financial conduit to Donald Trump and an owner of Cambridge Analytica and that he is connected to the ongoing investigation into the US elections are all nonsense and without foundation.

Google search hits are not surrogates for truth or proven facts. 

I have served as attorney for Mr. Firtash for several years, which has been reported in the media, and I never received any inquiries asking me to verify facts by anyone associated with the book or the film.

Therefore, I ask the author and publishers of the book and writers and producers of the film to repudiate, delete and retract all references to Firtash immediately and publish such retractions in widely disseminated public statements with apologies. 

If not, then we will consider all legal options.

For further inquiries please contact:
Eleanor McManus
[email protected]
202-460-1451 cell

DISSEMINATED BY DAVIS GOLDBERG GALPER, A REGISTERED FOREIGN AGENT, ON BEHALF OF DMITRYO FIRTASH.  ADDITIONAL INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE AT THE US DEPT OF JUSTICE, WASHINGTON, D.C.

SOURCE Lanny J. Davis

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