The Russians are coming!

Russian billionaire to spend more time in NYC

By Richard Johnson Page Six NY Post September 15, 2016

The Russian is coming. Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov will be spending more time in the US now that he’s moved some of his billions from Moscow to Brooklyn, sources say.

Prokhorov sold off his $2 billion stake in Uralkali, the world’s biggest potash mining company, after Russian police raided his offices in April.

The 6-foot-8 bachelor has increased his holdings in the US, buying control of Nassau Coliseum last year. In December, he became the sole owner of Barclays Center and the Nets.

“Prokhorov will be more and more in New York,” one source told me. “It doesn’t matter that he doesn’t have an apartment here. He is happy at his penthouse at the Four Seasons that he always books.”

As I reported five months ago, Prokhorov got on Vladimir Putin’s bad side when a newspaper he partly owns named members of the Kremlin’s inner circle who turned up in the Panama Papers — a list of tax avoiders with money in offshore accounts.

A spokeswoman for Prokhorov told me, “He continues to have a strong business presence in Russia across multiple industries, including banking, insurance, media and real estate. He is a full-time resident of Russia.”

Putin on DNC leak: 'Does it even matter who hacked this data?'

“Listen, does it even matter who hacked this data?’’ Putin told Bloomberg on Thursday. “The important thing is the content that was given to the public.’’

“There’s no need to distract the public’s attention from the essence of the problem by raising some minor issues connected with the search for who did it,” Putin said. “But I want to tell you again, I don’t know anything about it, and on a state level Russia has never done this.”

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"Russia to release Clinton emails?"

Washington Times:  U.S. intelligence agencies are said to be closely watching Russian online blogs and other postings for any signs that Moscow hackers have covertly obtained the bulk of Hillary Clinton’s email messages stolen from her private email server and are preparing to make them public.

A U.S. intelligence official told Inside the Ring that the indications of the email release are being closely watched, although the veracity of at least two postings on the matter could not be confirmed as authoritative.

A State Department official has said Russia is one of at least three foreign governments likely to have obtained the full content of the former secretary of state’s server through covert hacking operations. The other two are China and Israel.

"Russian government hackers penetrated DNC, stole opposition research on Trump"

Washington Post:  The intruders so thoroughly compromised the DNC’s system that they also were able to read all email and chat traffic, said DNC officials and the security experts.

The intrusion into the DNC was one of several targeting American political organizations. The networks of presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were also targeted by Russian spies, as were the computers of some Republican political action committees, U.S. officials said. But details on those cases were not available.

Some of the hackers had access to the DNC network for about a year, but all were expelled over the past weekend in a major computer cleanup campaign, the committee officials and experts said.

The DNC said that no financial, donor or personal information appears to have been accessed or taken, suggesting that the breach was traditional espionage, not the work of criminal hackers.

Emails show they knew the danger of using private networks

BREAKING: Emails show Russia-linked hackers tried at least 5 times to break into Clinton private server.

— The Associated Press (@AP) September 30, 2015

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