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Lobbyist Sam Patten Pleads Guilty to Steering Foreign Funds to Trump Inaugural - The New York Times
WASHINGTON — An American lobbyist on Friday admitted brokering access to President Trump’s inauguration for a pro-Russian Ukrainian oligarch in a scheme that highlighted the rush by foreign interests to influence the new administration.
As part of a plea agreement under which he pledged to cooperate with federal prosecutors, the lobbyist, Sam Patten, pleaded guilty to failing to register as a foreign agent for a Russia-aligned Ukrainian political party, and to helping the Ukrainian oligarch who had funded that party illegally purchase four tickets to Mr. Trump’s inauguration.
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Pattten is due to be sentenced on April 12. He has been cooperating with investigators to try to reduce his sentence.
Rachel Maddow pointed out tonight that there are currently 7 active probes into the Trump inaugural & that Patten is likely to have helped most or all of them as they look into what happened to the record $107M raised for the occasion.
WASHINGTON — An American lobbyist on Friday admitted brokering access to President Trump’s inauguration for a pro-Russian Ukrainian oligarch in a scheme that highlighted the rush by foreign interests to influence the new administration.
As part of a plea agreement under which he pledged to cooperate with federal prosecutors, the lobbyist, Sam Patten, pleaded guilty to failing to register as a foreign agent for a Russia-aligned Ukrainian political party, and to helping the Ukrainian oligarch who had funded that party illegally purchase four tickets to Mr. Trump’s inauguration.
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Pattten is due to be sentenced on April 12. He has been cooperating with investigators to try to reduce his sentence.
Rachel Maddow pointed out tonight that there are currently 7 active probes into the Trump inaugural & that Patten is likely to have helped most or all of them as they look into what happened to the record $107M raised for the occasion.