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Wednesday, January 30th, 2019

How Putin’s oligarchs funneled millions into GOP campaigns

Author:     Ruth May
Source:     Dallas News
Publication Date:     28 January 2019/December 15, 2017
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Stephan:   The 0ther day I went to a conference put on by a friend, and I happened to get into a conversation about Russian oligarchs with some people who represented themselves as sophisticated on the issue. As I listened to them I realized they didn't really comprehend the issue. Then I got two emails from readers and I could tell they didn't really understand it either. So here is a solid article on this subject written by a business professor who has an international reputation for being knowledgeable about this subject.

Mitch McConnell and Trump

As Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team probes deeper into potential collusion between Trump officials and representatives of the Russian government, investigators are taking a closer look at political contributions made by U.S. citizens with close ties to Russia.

Buried in the campaign finance reports available to the public are some troubling connections between a group of wealthy donors with ties to Russia and their political contributions to President Donald Trump and a number of top Republican leaders. And thanks to changes in campaign finance laws, the political contributions are legal. We have allowed our campaign finance laws to become a strategic threat to our country.

An example is Len Blavatnik, a dual U.S.-U.K. citizen and one of the largest donors to GOP political action committees in the 2015-16 election cycle. Blavatnik’s family emigrated to the U.S. in the late ’70s from the U.S.S.R. and he returned to Russia when the Soviet Union began to collapse in the late ’80s.

Data from the Federal Election Commission show that Blavatnik’s campaign contributions dating back to […]

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1 Comment

  1. Rev. Dean on Wednesday, January 30, 2019 at 3:23 pm

    I read somewhere that two Ukrainians shifted money to a U.S. source to help Trump win the election through so-called legal channels and the amount was in the multi-millions, and actually came directly from Russia through these two Ukrainians.