the trial due to start in washington, d.c. in a couple weeks. his co-defendant is not likely to turn up. he is russian borne. konstant konstantin kilimnik is the co-defendant. in addition to his work paul manafort, this guy also formed a company with a consulting firm with sam patten, the guy charged today. so that s another link. the leader he worked for and helped get elected in ukraine, there s no mention of victorian koefk in the charging documents related to sam patten but sam patten, according to prosecutors, was placing op eds
testified, has signed his name on court documents which say that s exactly what he did. it s all so freaking shady. the whole trump inauguration. and all the finances around it have been so blatant shady from the very beginning. if this revelation in the sam patten plea today is a sign of more shoes to drop to do with the trump inauguration, now that prosecutors have named foreign money being illegally funneled into the committee, that would be great for us just to understand what has happened with this presidency. because from the very beginning, literally from inauguration day, there was a giant slush fund hiding in plain sight. it would be great to know what happened to that giant slush fund. by the way, why doctor. reporter: these illegal shenanigans being described in the plea agreement but not actually charged against this guy? why did prosecutors spell it all out as a crime but then not
interviews with, and particularly focused on his relationship with konstantin and the former soviet political universe that started to come into focus in this investigation when manafort first got in trouble. natasha was one of those journalist who s interviewed sam patten this spring. her profile was not just about patten s relationship with the work in the soviet union. she also wrote about his work with cambridge analytica. they re the data firm that was paid millions of dollars by the trump for president campaign. they have since fallen on hard times. they shut down in may after serious controversy after which it was reveal they had stolen personal information off facebook of tens of millions of people.
foreign agent. to be more specifying, prosecutors charged when i am being an unregistered foreign agent, recommending the same pro russia political party that paul manafort has been charged with being a foreign agent for for his trial that s due to start in a couple weeks. sam patten today and paul manafort in a couple weeks, they re both charged with being unregistered foreign agents for something called the opposition bloc which is what forms had ukraine after manafort s pro russian victory was chased back. they remade the party. so that s one link to the manafort case. both sam patten and paul manafort are charged with the same crime and they re charged with committing the same crime on behalf of the same foreign entity. also, paul manafort has a co-defendant in his next trial.
what do you know about patten s role at cambridge analytica, with the parent firm of cambridge analytica. that s something we know from your reporting but we didn t see anything about it explicitly in the charging documents today. right. there are two things are really interesting about the parent company of cambridge analytica. in 2014 he started working in oregon for the parent company scl and he was focusing on micro targeting which we know is a big part of trump campaign s data operation in 2016. so he was working on that. and then he ended up working for cambridge analytica again in a campaign in a project they did for the incumbent in nigeria. and what they can there was also very interesting. part of that project involved hacking in, hiring israeli hackers to find dirt on their clients opponents. where have i heard the