Latvian-born Putin critic and businessman Dan Rapoport “jumped” from his apartment building on Sunday night per a New York Post report citing DC Metro police, contradicting the Independent’s piece sourced from Russian state media reporting on Wednesday which said he’d been found dead in a park somewhere in the city after attaching a note to his unleashed dog.
The Post also says Rapoport was “allegedly locked in a feud with a Russian venture capital firm, which was trying to cheat him out of $10,000,” which would seem to be a relatively small amount considering he had owned a home worth millions in DC’s Kalorama neighborhood before selling it to Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner in 2016. Rapoport then moved to Kyiv to live with his second wife, a Ukrainian virologist, but headed back to DC after the Russian invasion in February, renting a unit at 2400 Main Street in Georgetown. It’s not clear from the Post report if he “jumped” from the balcony of his unit or the roof, but wherever it was it was high enough to do the job.