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But Wait, There’s More: Guilty GOP Operative Broke A Bunch Of Other Laws Too
The GOP operative who pleaded guilty Friday to failing to register his Ukrainian lobbying work in the U.S. also lied to the Senate Intelligence Committee, deleted documents that would have revealed those false statements and aided with an illegal straw purchase of tickets to President Trump’s inauguration for a Ukrainian oligarch, according to court documents.
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According to the statement of offense, Patten was asked by his Russian business partner — known in the docs as “Foreigner A” and believed to be Konstantin Kilimnik — to obtain inauguration tickets for the Ukrainian oligarch dubbed “Foreigner B,” for whom Patten and Foreigner A lobbied in the U.S. starting in 2015.
The Presidential Inauguration Committee legally could not accept payments from foreign nationals, so Patten found a straw purchaser who was paid $50,000 by Patten’s company - TPM
The GOP operative who pleaded guilty Friday to failing to register his Ukrainian lobbying work in the U.S. also lied to the Senate Intelligence Committee, deleted documents that would have revealed those false statements and aided with an illegal straw purchase of tickets to President Trump’s inauguration for a Ukrainian oligarch, according to court documents.
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According to the statement of offense, Patten was asked by his Russian business partner — known in the docs as “Foreigner A” and believed to be Konstantin Kilimnik — to obtain inauguration tickets for the Ukrainian oligarch dubbed “Foreigner B,” for whom Patten and Foreigner A lobbied in the U.S. starting in 2015.
The Presidential Inauguration Committee legally could not accept payments from foreign nationals, so Patten found a straw purchaser who was paid $50,000 by Patten’s company - TPM
Money. Greed. Corruption. Betrayal.
Conseяvatism in a nutshell.
