in 2016, that same guy turned up at the meeting in trump tower last june, which involved donald trump, jr. and paul manafort and jared kushner. he was there at the trump tower meeting. in the wake of the meeting, we learned his partner in that $1.4 billion money laundering scheme from the '90s was a soviet banker with ties to former kgb officers. a few weeks ago, the guardian newspaper reported that he was involved in the 2003 takeover of a u.s. mining company by one of russia's wealthiest oligarchs, a very close friend of vladamir putin. who personally lobbied president bush for that deal. one of the five people the russians hand picked to serve on the board of that new company was ike. yesterday, he turned up again, when he testified behind closed