WASHINGTON — A Russian analyst who contributed to a dossier of Democratic-funded research into ties between Russia and Donald Trump was indicted Thursday on charges of lying to the FBI
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Russian analyst who contributed to a dossier of Democratic-funded research into ties between Russia and Donald Trump was arrested Thursday on charges of lying to the
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FILE - In this Sept. 27, 2018, file photo, then-White House counsel Don McGahn listens as Supreme court nominee Brett Kavanaugh testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. After years of trying, the House Judiciary Committee is set to question McGahn on June 4, 2021, two years after House Democrats originally sought his testimony as part of investigations into former President Donald Trump.
Saul Loeb
By MARY CLARE JALONICK and ERIC TUCKER
Associated Press Jun 4, 2021
WASHINGTON (AP) â It was one of the more tantalizing, yet unresolved, questions of the investigation into possible connections between Russia and Donald Trump s 2016 presidential campaign: Why was a business associate of campaign chairman Paul Manafort given internal polling data â and what did he do with it?
A Treasury Department statement Thursday offered a potentially significant clue, asserting that Konstantin Kilimnik, a Russian and Ukrainian political consultant, had shared sensitive campaign and polling information with Russian intelligence services.
Kilimnik has long been alleged by U.S. officials as having ties to Russian intelligence. But the statement in a broader Treasury Department sanctions announcement was the first time the U.S. government had so directly drawn a connection from the Trump campaign to the Kremlin s intelligence services. The revelation was all the more startling because it went beyond any allegation made in either special counsel Robert Mue