with was eventually charged by the fbi for his actions as a spy, but paige released a statement saying that he simply shared research with the russian who he understood to be working in moscow s united nations office. paige stressed that the information was immaterial and amounted to lectures he gave at nyu on policy. but whether he knew it or not, it turns out that russian spy was part of the same spy ring as another russian who worked for the bank veb. if that name rings a bell, that s because it s the same bank whose chairman met with jared kushner in december during the transition. it s a state-run, russian bank, and the meeting with jared kushner was set up by russian ambassador sergey kislyak. so, this is a display of back-channel meetings and efforts by the russians to meet with trump associates and the trump team. one other for you. the washington post is also reporting that secretary of education betsy devos s brother, eric prince, met with a russian connected to president p