Russian Lawyer Who Met Trump Jr. Had Worked for Intelligence Agency

  • Veselnitskaya helped win lawsuit in Moscow property dispute
  • Attorney has offered to testify in U.S. over Trump son meeting

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The Russian lawyer who held a controversial meeting with President Donald Trump’s son as his father campaigned in last year’s election had represented Russia’s main intelligence agency in a long-running property dispute, court documents show.

Natalia Veselnitskaya was the legal representative for a military unit of the Federal Security Service, known as the FSB, the court filings from 2011 and 2012 show. A Russian appeals court in 2012 upheld a lawsuit by the Federal Property Agency over ownership of a five-story building in northwest Moscow in a victory for her client.