Foreign $$$ @ inauguration? guilty as charged. Next?

By PeraclesPlease on Fri, 08/31/2018 - 5:22pm |

Re: Manafort aide Sam Patten who was indicted today for failing to register as a foreign agent. Lobbyist Says He Illegally Helped Russian and Ukrainian Buy Tickets to Trump Inauguration https://t.co/Ov5FnyQtBm pic.twitter.com/DdsA2hCL4T
— Amanda Rivkin (@amandarivkin) August 31, 2018

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https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2018-08-31/patten-caused-foreign-money-to-be-paid-to-inaugural-committee

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Bad news for anyone who lied to Congress about Russia stuff. https://t.co/0G4MgHu7XB
— Dan Friedman (@dfriedman33) August 31, 2018

by artappraiser on Fri, 08/31/2018 - 6:13pm

Cambridge Analytica and Manafort ties also quite important - Patten will be a window into their (black) soul, both for upcoming Manafort trial (or to get him to plea) and the continuing mystery of what CA + Manafort (+ Gates) did worldwide (incl Brexit) along with the Mercers' role in all this. Perjury charges for lying to Congress are a nice little persuader (nit that Nunes isn't a 1-man lying machine himself, among others)

by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 08/31/2018 - 8:18pm

some elaboration Ken Vogel put on his tweet of the NYT article (he was lead author):

@kenvogel

SAM PATTEN CHARGES ARE IMPORTANT: They relate to his work with longtime MANAFORT deputy KONSTANTIN KILIMNIK ("foreigner A" in charging doc) on behalf of a pro-Russian Ukrainian party for which Manafort also worked. Shows that MUELLER's work is bearing fruit beyond core of probe.

SAM PATTEN specialized in off-the-radar & unregistered lobbying for clients in former Soviet states. He told me last year that specialists like him are "more effective than 20 guys in slick suits who put their interns on an account to contact … Congress."

and then he added this:

The document charging SAM PATTEN with violating FARA doesn't name KONSTANTIN KILIMNIK, but indicates that Patten & "Foreigner A," a Russian, formed a US co. to do work starting in 2015.
And DC incorporation papers show that the pair formed Begemot Ventures International in 2015. pic.twitter.com/KLZaOb1zNV
— Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) August 31, 2018

by artappraiser on Sat, 09/01/2018 - 12:06am

So actual Deep State, not just fake news meta deep state.

by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 09/01/2018 - 4:54am

ALSO: In light of SAM PATTEN's guilty plea to lobbying & finance violations, this quote from him from last year is quite something: “I’ve worked in Ukraine, Iraq, I’ve worked in deeply corrupt countries, and [the American] system isn’t very different.” https://t.co/NioaewHRT0
— Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) September 2, 2018

by artappraiser on Sun, 09/02/2018 - 6:33pm

Foreign $$$ @ inauguration? guilty as charged. Next?

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