House Inquiry Turns Attention to Trump Campaign Worker With Russia Ties
Source: New York Times
Michael Caputo, who served as a communications adviser to the Trump campaign, has been asked by the House committee investigating Russian election meddling to submit to a voluntary interview and to provide any documents he may have that are related to the inquiry.
The House Intelligence Committee, which is examining possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian officials, made its request in a letter on May 9. Mr. Caputo, who lives near Buffalo and spent six months on the Trump team, worked in Russia during the 1990s and came to know Kremlin officials. He also did work in the early 2000s for Gazprom Media, a Russian conglomerate that supported President Vladimir V. Putin.
Mr. Caputo has strongly denied that there was any collusion between him or anyone else on the campaign and Russian officials. He has also accused the committee of smearing him.
A Democratic member of the panel, Representative Jackie Speier of California, raised Mr. Caputos name during the March 20 hearing where James B. Comey, then the F.B.I. director, testified on Russias interference in the election. She noted Mr. Caputos work for Gazprom, and the fact that he met his second wife, who is Ukrainian, while working in 2007 on a parliamentary election in Kiev.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/20/us/politics/michael-caputo-house-committee-russia-trump.html
sandensea
(21,636 posts)to, well, everyone who's anyone in the Trump circus.
SkyDaddy7
(6,045 posts)Almost everyone is tied to Russia because Trump has been running with that crowd of criminals for a while! I would not be shocked if it turns out Trump has been involved in helping Russian organized crime launder money via huge real estate purchases in NYC & other places.
nitpicker
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