case. so there's lots and lots of ties between had guy's new case today and manafort's case which is still ongoing. still ongoing. he has another second trial coming up in a another couple weeks. but on that specific claim by prosecutors about the trump inauguration, that is fascinating for a bunch of reasons. for one, bluntly, this is the first time prosecutors have directly alleged that foreign money was funneled into any trump campaign entity. also the mechanism by which it was done is interesting. according to the statement of offense in the sam patten case, sam patten convinced some american, to write a check that was a $50,000 check that was supposed to look like an american $50,000 donation to the trump inauguration. that $50,000 donation obtained four tickets on trump inaugural events. that american person, whoever it was, that person who wrote the check in their own name, that