Trump Inaugural Committee Got Foreign Money, Plea Deal Shows

[ButSeeYa]

Source: Bloomberg News

A former Paul Manafort associate who pleaded guilty to a lobbying crime admitted that he helped foreign donors give money to President Donald Trump’s Inaugural Committee.

In a plea agreement made public Friday, prosecutors outlined other crimes that the lobbyist, Sam Patten, admitted to but wouldn’t be charged with. Among them was “causing foreign money” to be paid to the Trump inaugural committee. Patten signed off on the allegation.

Patten pleaded guilty earlier Friday to failing to disclose his lobbying on behalf of Ukraine, and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors.

According to a court filing, Patten’s Ukrainian client wanted to attend the Trump inauguration in January 2017, but the inauguration committee couldn’t accept money from foreign nationals. Foreign nationals can’t contribute to a presidential inauguration, according to Federal Election Commission rules.

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

[Achilleaze]

1. republican scum selling out America

piss on the republican traitors

[dalton99a]

2. Kick

[DownriverDem]

3. But trump's supporters

won't care. I have always said follow the money. Look at the NRA.

[Leghorn21]

4. Strange - this Patten guy also worked with slain opposition leader Boris Nemtsov:

——-Boris Yefimovich Nemtsov (Russian: Бори́с Ефи́мович Немцо́в, IPA: [bɐˈrʲis jɪˈfʲiməvʲɪtɕ nʲɪmˈtsof]; 9 October 1959 – 27 February 2015) was a Russian physicist and liberal politician. Nemtsov was one of the most important figures in the introduction of capitalism into the Russian post-Soviet economy.[4] He had a successful political career in the 1990s under President Boris Yeltsin. From 2000 until his death, he was an outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin. Nemtsov was assassinated on 27 February 2015 on a bridge near the Kremlin in Moscow,[5][6] with four shots fired from the back.[7]
- wiki


——-Patten headed the International Republican Institute (IRI)’s Moscow office from 2001-2004, and provided technical assistance to a range of political parties and non-governmental organizations. In particular, he worked closely with the late opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, whose center-right party, the Union of Right Forces, pushed for free market and democratic reforms. Sam traveled extensively throughout Russia’s 11 time zones, building relationships and a nuanced understanding of Russia’s character. From 2009-11, Sam served as Eurasian program director at Freedom House, an advocacy group, where he continued to focus on Russian affairs, as well as those in the broader region.
http://officeofsampatten.com/experience/russia/

(A year ago: Ivan Skripnichenko, Russian Activist Dies After Attack At Nemtsov Memorial
Last Updated: August 25, 2017 09:49 GMT
https://www.rferl.org/a/russian-activist-dies-after-attack-at-nemtsov-memorial/28696116.html - I remember that Bill Browder sadly noted Ivan’s murder at the time)

Anyway, I guess Patten and the like work for whoever can pay for their services, no matter who the client is.
Lovely, just fkn lovely.

[Midnight Writer]

5. Isn't there still millions of inaugural funds missing?

[jpak]

6. Emoluments

Bigly

Lock them UP!