The lawyer who met with Trump's son represented the Russian intelligence service

Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, who in June 2016 met with the eldest son of the then presidential candidate and the current president of the USA, Donald Trump, represented in court a military unit controlled by the Russian intelligence service. Trump's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., met with Veselnitskaya at the height of the presidential campaign after he was told that she could give him compromising information about his father's then-opponent Hillary Clinton, according to the Associated Press. The Associated Press obtained court documents from 2011 and 2012 that show Veselnitskaya represented military unit 55002, which she founded and commanded the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), in a property dispute. In that dispute, the court ruled in favor of the Russian Federal Property Agency, which requested the return of the building that housed the FSB military unit. In addition to Trump's son and Veselnitskaya, the meeting in "Trump Tower" in June 2016 was attended by Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, the head of Trump's presidential campaign Paul Manafort, the representative of Russian real estate dealer Aras Agalarov and an unnamed Russian-American lobbyist who was a Soviet agent . Veselnitskaya has denied any connection to the Russian government, although the intermediary behind the meeting said she received information about Hillary Clinton from Russia's chief prosecutor, according to the AP. On July 11, Donald Trump Jr. published a transcript of emails he exchanged in June 2016 with publicist and former tabloid journalist Rob Goldstone, who helped him schedule a meeting with Veselnitskaya. According to Goldstone's allegations in the emails, Russia's chief prosecutor offered to provide Trump's campaign staff with information about Hillary Clinton through Aras Agalarov. The Washington Post reported that Aras Agalarov is close to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Aras and Emin Agalarov organized the Miss Universe pageant in Moscow in 2013, which is owned by Trump. The knowledge of the meeting held in the "Trump Tower" shook the US president and his entourage, since they have been claiming for months that there was no attempt to coordinate with the Russians during the presidential election campaign.