in u.s. media outlets and organizing political meetings on capitol hill. the guy for whom sam patten was illegally lobbying, it wasn t victor yankovic s chief of staff. so he is charged with being an unregistered chief of staef for victor yankovic and his party. sam patten as well and the chief of staff. the unnamed foreign official described throughout the documents, all indication is that he was this guy, sergei. part of opposition bloc chief of staff yankovic if he is in fact unnamed official described in the documents. it should be noted that in the evidence that was introduced in the last paul manafort trial, that same guy, sergei lovochkin
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 fall yoenl 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. part of that was the ties to the russian government and other unexplained russian interests and ties between cambridge analytica and its parent company. a whistle blower was the main
that same guy, sergei lovochkin is described as beak being the main pay master for paul manafort for all the work he did in ukraine. more than $40 million of the overseas payments that prosecutors say were funneled to paul manafort over the years came from this guy, sergei lovochkin. who has a starring role in today s new indictment also. so lots of links to manafort. you may have heard when they charged this guy sam patten today and they got his guilty plea and he signed off on this cooperation deal, you may eventual heard today that prosecutors also claimed in this case that is patten illegally funneled foreign money into the trump inauguration. there s $50,000 illegal donation prosecutors described today. this $50,000 in illegal foreign money that was funneled into the trump inauguration, according to the charging documents today, that money according to
latest cooperating sgid the latest guilty plea in the special counsel s investigation. i should note that this appears to be another one of those cases that start with the special counsel s office, but they appear to have handed it off. the prosecutors who appeared in court today for this hearing for sam patten from prosecutors from the u.s. attorney s office in d.c. and main justice, from the national security division at main justice. reporters say at least one lawyer and multiple fbi agents were in court today to see sam patten plead guilty. but those fbi sxlaulawyers didn speak in court and they definitely didn t answer any reporters questions. show the originated in the special counsel s office and then it was handed off to those other entities who actually prosecuted him. how does this latest guilty sxhee this latest cooperation
actually ran it. the vice chairman of the finance committee was republican fund-raiser elliott brady who is now reportedly under justice department investigation. also on money laundering charges. so on the stand in the manafort trial, i have to tell you, rick gates testified under oath that he himself might have stolen money. he said he would have to check. he said under oath, it s possible. yeah, you know, i have to go back through my files. i might have stolen money from there, too. i don t remember. then there s the aspersion the new guy, sam patten who today pled guilty to pled for a pro rugs ukrainian party, today, prosecutors said that he illegally facilitated the payment of a $50,000 donation from a ukrainian old fwark to the trump inauguration. of course, they are not illegally allowed to receive foreign money but patten has