She’s been called a “Russian government attorney,” a “trusted insider” of the Kremlin, the “go-to lawyer for the Moscow regional government” and an acquaintance of Russia’s powerful prosecutor general.
Natalia Veselnitskaya, 42, rose from obscurity to international notoriety June 9, 2016, meeting with Donald Trump, Jr., Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort. She also appears to have amassed her fortune in the midst of a very short period of time, 14 years ago, when her legal career in the Moscow region was in the infancy and she was just transitioning from being a government employee to a private practitioner.
