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using fake personas, but it does not get to the end to say there s no collusion proven. eric: it also goes right to the kremlin. let me show you one of the main alleged participants in this, the guy who funded the operation in st. petersburg. he s a billionaire. he is called putin s chef because he s up there on the left right behind putin s shoulder you see him there, who apparently handles billions of dollars and he was in fact under sanctions and is under sanctions right now by the u.s. department of treasury. back in december of 2016, let me read you what the treasury department put out when he was sanctioned. he assisted sponsored or provided financial material technological support for or goods or services in support of senior officials of the russian federation. he has extensive business dealings with the russian federation ministry of defense and the company with significant ties to him holds a contract to
any sort of conspiracy, very well constructed, very well-funded and very well-executed. shepard: and out of moscow. the bot farm is in st. petersburg but the money is coming from vlad. it s safe to say. there s some things that looks like they had russian corporate records which usually in this case, a mutual lateral assistance treaty which is how u.s. authorities get information from foreign governments. that s not how they got that here. they had an address, a semblance of information in russia. there s no doubt that this has a hand of the state government. shepard: jeffery, from my reading of this, they didn t solve this, didn t connect the dots online. this seems to indicate our folks infiltrated this operation in st. petersburg, russia, on the ground. that s a safe interpretation. certainly they had some inside information, which indicated
say there is no such group, that they were, in fact, created by russian companies which paid more than $100,000 to facebook to post them during and after the election. their goal was to spread dissension, was to split our country apart, and they did a pretty good job. reporter: many of the ads, investigators say, came from an operation in st. petersburg, russia, in this building where young russians are hired to send out fake news. a former employee says she took this undercover video inside when she worked there in 2015, hoping to expose the operation, where the so-called trolls worked 12-hour shifts. the former employee, lyudmila savchuk, told abc news, facebook was one of their main platforms. according to investigators, the ads show their slant, pro-trump, anti-clinton. their targets? voters in specific areas of key swing states. of specificity? that s one of the questions we need answered. that is the question tonight.