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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>DOJ moves to drop charges against 2 Russian shell companies indicted during Mueller’s investigation</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Written by Alex Henderson March 17, 2020</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A year has passed since former special counsel Robert Mueller delivered his final report for the Russia investigation, but Mueller’s indictment of two shell companies accused of promoting Russian interference in the United States’ 2016 presidential election remained. On Monday, March 16, however, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) moved to drop the federal charges the companies have been facing.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>In 2018, Katie Benner and Sharon LaFraniere report in the Washington Post, Mueller’s team “secured” an indictment against the Russian shell companies, Concord Management and Concord Consulting, as well as 13 Russians and the company Internet Research Agency.</b> According to Benner and LaFraniere,<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Concord Management and Concord Consulting responded to the indictment differently than the others: rather than fighting the charges, the companies “seized on the case to obtain confidential information from prosecutors, then mount a campaign of information warfare, a senior Justice Department official said.”</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The case was set to go to trial in April, but according to that DOJ official, prosecutors pushed for dropping the case because they feared that sensitive information could be made public.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a motion filed in federal court on March 16, prosecutors warned, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">“Concord has been eager and aggressive in using the judicial system to gather information about how the United States detects and prevents foreign election interference.” The judge granted that motion.</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">However, DOJ prosecutors are asserting that dropping the charges against Concord Management and Concord Consulting isn’t meant to bury Mueller’s work in the Russia investigation — and have pointed out that the <b>charges against the other defendants (including the Internet Research Agency) will remain.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When Mueller testified before Congress during the Summer of 2019, he warned that the Russian government under President Vladimir Putin had every intention of trying to interfere in the United States’ 2020 presidential election. And many media outlets have reported that Putin and his allies would much rather see President Donald Trump reelected than see either Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont or former Vice President Joe Biden in the White House in 2021.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Concord Management and Consulting, the indicted Russian “company” that provided funding for the Russian effort to weaponize social media, leaked information from non-public court documents to undercut the case being made by the special counsel’s office. </b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">To release the information, the Russian company created yet another fake company, Redstone Hacking, which claimed to have “hacked Russian server with info from the Russian troll case,” but in fact Concord was just releasing its own copy of court documents—but not without making a few changes.</span></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In February 2018, the special counsel indicted 13 Russian individuals associated with Concord Management and the collection of Russian operatives masquerading as a company called the Internet Research Agency. The IRA was the core of Russia’s social media effort to support Donald Trump. It generated the fake sites for not just “groups” that supported Trump, but also the sites that weaponized American racism. Fake “Black Lives Matter” sites intended to frighten white voters in critical areas were being created by the same people making fake “Hillary hates blacks” sites that were intended to suppress African-American votes. Similarly, the Russian agency played nonexistent extremes on both sides of immigration, of gun safety, and of every issue that could be used to lever open a gap among American voters. The militant messages at “Blacktivist” came from the Russians. So did the xenophobic rants at “Secured Borders.” </font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The workers at the IRA created dozens of Facebook accounts, Twitter accounts, webpages, and a network of connections among them. Then they created thousands of bots, each of which had its own set of accounts and provided apparent heft and popularity to the core accounts. They even sent actual Russian agents to actual American cities to stage actual protests.<b> On Twitter alone, the IRA created 3,800 known accounts and sent 176,000 tweets that were seen by millions of Americans. Some of those tweets were retweeted by such conservative Trump supporters as Ann Coulter. Some of them were retweeted by members of Trump’s campaign, like Michael Flynn. </b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The YouTube videos the IRA created also got broad notice on the right. So did their GIF memes. And when they had trouble getting an idea to break through organically, the Russians did it the old-fashioned way: They bought ads. All of it as part of the effort to help Donald Trump. At least 90 people worked full-time at this effort—and that doesn’t include the “over 100 Americans” that they either recruited or attempted to recruit. </span></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On Wednesday, the special counsel’s office made a new court filing opposing the publication of some documents related to the Concord case. And, as CNN reports,  the filing reveals that Concord Management has already been busy conducting its own document release—against court orders. And the Russians have been making changes to the documents they release. The new filing states that "Certain non-sensitive discovery materials in the defense's possession appear to have been altered and disseminated as part of a disinformation campaign aimed (apparently) at discrediting ongoing investigations into Russian interference in the U.S. political system.”</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">CNN and BBC reporter Josh Russell was one of several people who received information from a new Twitter account under the name of Redstone Hacking.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Redstone claimed to have “special access” to court documents obtained by hacking into a Russian server with information on the case against Concord and the Internet Research Agency. But it now appears that Redstone was Concord “hacking” its own documents to leak out selections.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</div><div><b>Russian firm indicted in Mueller probe accuses Trump-appointed judge of ‘bias’</b></div><div>
</div><div>By </div><div>Spencer S. Hsu </div><div>January 7, 2019 at 5:03 PM EST</div><div>
</div><div>A federal judge on Monday sharply criticized the U.S.-based attorney for a Russian company indicted in special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation, and the attorney fired back that the judge showed “bias” against him.</div><div>
</div><div>The fiery exchange threatens to complicate the already complex prosecution of Concord Management and Consulting, which was indicted in February along with its owner, Russian businessman Yevgeniy Prigozhin, and other Russian individuals and companies. They are accused of financing and overseeing a social media operation to disrupt the 2016 U.S. election.</div><div>
</div><div>Concord’s defense team had asked a court to rule on its demand to share with Prigozhin — known as “Putin’s chef” because of his close ties to Russian president Vladimir Putin — millions of pages of evidence turned over by Mueller prosecutors. Under a court protective order, sensitive evidence in the case must be reviewed first by a U.S. government “firewall” counsel before being released to any non-U.S. national, including co-defendant Prigozhin, in part because of his alleged ties to Russian intelligence.</div><div><b>
</b></div><div><b>U.S. District Judge Dabney L. Friedrich of the District, </b>who was appointed by President Trump, began a Monday hearing by<b> lambasting defense attorney Eric A. Dubelier,</b> saying, “I find your recent filings .?.?. unprofessional, inappropriate and ineffective.” The judge said Dubelier had made “meritless” attacks on Mueller, his team, other U.S. prosecutors and federal law enforcement.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Friedrich cited Dubelier’s inclusions of “what you clearly believe to be clever” references in his legal filings to “movies, cartoons and books” — ranging from the movie “Animal House” to a pre-World War II Swiss travelogue — before concluding: “I’ll say it plain and simple. Knock it off.”</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>When he had the chance to speak, Dubelier, a former federal prosecutor who has clashed repeatedly with Mueller prosecutors in the case, turned on Friedrich, saying that he was not prepared to address all the judge’s questions at this point but needed to consult with Concord to determine if the client continued to want his representation given her comments.</b></div><div>
</div><div>“There seems to be some bias against me by the court,” Dubelier alleged, voice rising.</div><div>
</div><div>Dubelier responded to the claim that he acted “unprofessionally,” saying, “Your honor, that’s your opinion,” adding, “I’ve been telling the truth.”</div><div>
</div><div>Shortly after, Friedrich cleared the courtroom for what she previously said would be a sealed hearing over another of Concord’s motions.</div><div>
</div><div><b>Indicted Russian firm says Mueller has collected ‘nude selfie’ in probe</b></div><div>
</div><div>The courtroom theatrics came in a case already bogged down in legal and political maneuvering, all overseen by Friedrich, who took the bench in December 2017.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">A no-nonsense former federal prosecutor, Senate Judiciary Committee staffer and member of the U.S. Sentencing Commission, Friedrich has moved on more than one occasion to rein in the witty but fiery Dubelier, who punctuated a May hearing in the case by accusing Mueller prosecutor Jeannie Rhee of lying, and by cursing loudly in the courtroom after speaking with her.</span></div><div>
</div><div>Concord has pleaded not guilty to an indictment charging it, 13 Russian individuals and two other companies including the Internet Research Agency of St. Petersburg, with conspiracy in an online effort to trick Americans into following and promoting Russian-fed propaganda that pushed 2016 voters toward then-candidate Donald Trump and away from Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.</div><div>
</div><div>Concord is the sole defendant to appear in court in the indictment of Russian entities under Mueller.</div><div><b>
</b></div><div><b>In a ruling last year, Friedrich agreed that prosecutors had provided “ample good cause” that sharing sensitive case materials could imperil ongoing U.S. national security investigations.</b></div><div>
</div><div><b>Concord’s attorneys said at the time that it was critical that their defense strategy include Prigozhin, invoking their constitutional rights to a fair trial.</b></div><div>
</div><div>But the U.S. government team — which also includes prosecutors with the Justice Department’s national security division and U.S. attorney’s office for the District — warned in recent weeks that Concord’s requests could jeopardize the secrecy of a matter before a federal grand jury.</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Earlier, prosecutors argued Concord’s moves also could reveal government investigative techniques and identify cooperating individuals and companies, as well as personal information of U.S. identity-theft victims whose data was used in the plot.</span></div><div>
</div><div>Friedrich, who said last year she would reconsider the question of sharing evidence with Prigozhin when the case was further along, scheduled a hearing for March 7 to do so.</div><div>
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">a <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Georgia, Times, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" em="em"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Georgia, Times, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" em="em">judge publicly slammed the defense lawyers for a Russian company criminally charged by special counsel Robert Mueller, accusing the firm’s attorneys of submitting unprofessional and inappropriate court filings attacking Mueller’s office and of unwisely peppering legal briefs with jarring quotes taken from movies like Animal House.</span></font></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; font-family: Georgia, Times, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" em="em" font-size="font-size" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I’ll say it plain and simple: knock it off,” U.S. District Court Judge Dabney Friedrich told lawyers for the Russian company, Concord Management and Consulting, at a brief court hearing in Washington Monday morning.

The tone and content of the submissions from Concord’s combative attorneys, <b>Eric Dubelier and Kate Seikaly, </b>in past months has been unusual for lawyers practicing in federal court. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">A <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5675655-Reply-in-Support.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">filing</a> last week quoted both the British 19<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">th</span> Century historian Lord Acton and a slightly sanitized expletive uttered by the somewhat less erudite “Otter,” a fraternity brother in the 1970s classic Animal House.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; font-family: Georgia, Times, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" em="em" font-size="font-size" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>A stern-faced Friedrich, the newest of President Donald Trump’s three appointees to the district court in Washington,</b> made clear Monday that she was not amused by what she called the “clever quotes.” She also chastised Dubelier for ad hominem attacks on Mueller’s attorneys and other prosecutors in the case.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; font-family: Georgia, Times, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" em="em" font-size="font-size" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I found your recent filings, in particular your reply brief filed Friday, unprofessional, inappropriate and ineffective,” the judge said. She suggested the submissions were an effort to bully her into granting pending defense motions to give the owners and officers of Concord greater access to materials Mueller’s office has turned over to permit the defense to prepare for trial.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; font-family: Georgia, Times, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" em="em" font-size="font-size" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">When Friedrich beckoned Dubelier to the courtroom lectern to address some more technical issues about the exchange of information, he declined to say anything of substance, declaring instead that the judge’s rebuke was so severe that he might need to withdraw from the case. He also accused Friedrich of bias</span>.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; font-family: Georgia, Times, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" em="em" font-size="font-size" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I need to go and discuss this with my client,” said Dubelier, a former federal prosecutor now with law firm Reed Smith. “There appears to be some bias on the part of the court.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; font-family: Georgia, Times, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" em="em" font-size="font-size" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Friedrich insisted that there was no bias and that the defense filings were patently inappropriate, but Dubelier disagreed.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; font-family: Georgia, Times, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" em="em" font-size="font-size" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“That’s your opinion,” the defense attorney said.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; font-family: Georgia, Times, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" em="em" font-size="font-size" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It appeared that Friedrich called the Monday morning court session in large part to deliver a public dressing-down to Dubelier. After some routine scheduling matters and a brief discussion of what proceedings should be held in open court, the judge ejected the press and members of the public and moved the court into a sealed session.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; font-family: Georgia, Times, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" em="em" font-size="font-size" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The courtroom dust-up laid bare some of the tensions created by Concord’s unexpected decision to contest the criminal charges a grand jury acting at Mueller’s request returned in February against the firm, two other Russian companies and 13 Russian individuals. The charges allege a conspiracy to use a disguised social media campaign and some on-the-ground organizing to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; font-family: Georgia, Times, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" em="em" font-size="font-size" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Much of the effort was aimed at electing Trump, the indictment alleges, but some actions backed Clinton or simply seemed intended to maximize chaos, conflict and dissension among Americans.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; font-family: Georgia, Times, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" em="em" font-size="font-size" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>From the outset, Concord’s lawyers have not only fought the legal charges, but used the vehicle of the court filings and open court hearings to mount a public campaign aimed at challenging Mueller’s legitimacy and the validity of the notion that online troublemaking amounts to a criminal conspiracy against the United States, as prosecutors have charged.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; font-family: Georgia, Times, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" em="em" font-size="font-size" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Concord’s attorneys and some supporters have noted, however, that the filing of the charges against the three firms and 13 Russians earlier this year also involved a significant amount of public posturing. <b>Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein personally announced the indictment at a Justice Department news conference.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; font-family: Georgia, Times, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" em="em" font-size="font-size" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Many inside and outside the Justice Department saw the indictment from the outset as a “name and shame” effort, that was intended to put the Russian government on notice that such conduct would be exposed and pursued by the U.S. The likelihood that any of the defendants would ever appear in a U.S. courtroom seemed remote.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; font-family: Georgia, Times, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" em="em" font-size="font-size" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Concord’s decision to contest the charges shattered that expectation and did so at relatively low cost to those charged in the case, including Evgeniy Prigozhin a Russian businessman and restaurateur known as Putin’s chef. Under U.S. law, the company is entitled to the full panoply of U.S. constitutional rights even though no individual connected to the firm is at risk of going to prison until and unless they come into U.S. custody.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></font></p><div class="story-supplement " style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 344.859px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-top: 1.5em; border-top: 1px solid rgb(232, 232, 232); font-family: din-2014, " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><aside class="content-categories" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h6 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em;" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" em="em"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This article tagged under:</font></h6><ul class="categories-list" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><li style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin: 0px 0.5em 0.5em 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.politico.com/news/justice-department" target="top" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline-block; background: rgb(229, 229, 229); line-height: 2em; padding: 0px 0.5em; position: relative; font-weight: 700; border-radius: 0px 3px 3px 0px;">Justice Department</a></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></li> <li style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin: 0px 0.5em 0.5em 1em;"><a href="https://www.politico.com/news/robert-mueller" target="top" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline-block; background: rgb(229, 229, 229); line-height: 2em; padding: 0px 0.5em; position: relative; font-weight: 700; border-radius: 0px 3px 3px 0px;">Robert Mueller</a></li> <li style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin: 0px 0.5em 0.5em 1em;"><a href="https://www.politico.com/tag/concord-management-and-consulting-llc" target="top" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline-block; background: rgb(229, 229, 229); line-height: 2em; padding: 0px 0.5em; position: relative; font-weight: 700; border-radius: 0px 3px 3px 0px;">Concord Management and Consulting LLC</a></li> <li style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin: 0px 0.5em 0.5em 1em;"><a href="https://www.politico.com/latest-news-updates/mueller-investigation-report-release-details" target="top" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline-block; background: rgb(229, 229, 229); line-height: 2em; padding: 0px 0.5em; position: relative; font-weight: 700; border-radius: 0px 3px 3px 0px;">Mueller Investigation</a></li></ul></aside></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concord_Management_and_Consulting"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concord_Management_and_Consulting</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Co<b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ncord Management and Consulting</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Russian</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">:</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span lang="ru" title="Russian language text" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Конкорд Менеджмент и Консалтинг</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">) is a member of the Concord company group, which is half owned by</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Prigozhin" title="Yevgeny Prigozhin" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Yevgeny Prigozhin</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concord_Management_and_Consulting#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-utkinceo_2-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concord_Management_and_Consulting#cite_note-utkinceo-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Based in</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.Petersburg" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Petersburg" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">St. Petersburg</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia" title="Russia" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Russia</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, it owns and operates several restaurants. It is also the parent company of</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Concord Catering</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-utkinceo_2-1" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concord_Management_and_Consulting#cite_note-utkinceo-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup></font></div><div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr;"><div class="mw-parser-output" style=""><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The company was founded by Yevgeny Prigozhin in 1995.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concord_Management_and_Consulting#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup> He was the listed owner until 2009. His mother, Violetta Prigozhin, has been the listed owner since 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concord_Management_and_Consulting#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a></sup></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"North Versailles" (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Russian</a>: <span lang="ru" title="Russian language text">Северный Версаль</span>) is a luxury housing development in the Lahti-Primorsky district of St. Petersburg built and managed by Concord Management and Consulting.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concord_Management_and_Consulting#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup> The development closed a section of Novaya Street to the public by erecting gates with armed guards. This was controversial because city records showed the street as still a public <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_of_way" title="Right of way" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">right of way</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concord_Management_and_Consulting#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Concord Management and Consulting owns 50% of LLC Megaline (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Russian</a>: <span lang="ru" title="Russian language text" style="">Мегалайн</span>).<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concord_Management_and_Consulting#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[7]</a></sup> Megaline received most of the capital construction contracts for the Russian military in 2016 in what appears to have been a rigged bidding process.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concord_Management_and_Consulting#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[8]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concord_Management_and_Consulting#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[9]</a></sup> Concord Management and Consulting's lawyers provided a package of amendments to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Defence(Russia)" title="Ministry of Defence (Russia)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Ministry of Defense</a> to change the laws in a way that would allow Megaline to bid for the contracts since it otherwise wasn't qualified. The amendments were submitted to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duma" title="Duma" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Duma</a> by the government on February 11, 2014, and adopted on April 16, 2014.</span><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concord_Management_and_Consulting#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a></sup></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>On June 20, 2017, The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Treasury_Department" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Treasury Department" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States Treasury Department</a> added Concord Management and Consulting to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_sanctions_during_the_Ukrainian_crisis" title="International sanctions during the Ukrainian crisis" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">list of companies sanctioned</a> for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_military_intervention_in_Ukraine(2014%E2%80%93present)" title="Russian military intervention in Ukraine (2014–present)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Russia's military interventions</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimea" title="Crimea" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Crimea</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine" title="Ukraine" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ukraine</a></b>.<sup id="cite_ref-2017sanctions_11-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concord_Management_and_Consulting#cite_note-2017sanctions-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a></sup></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Utkin" class="mw-redirect" title="Dmitry Utkin" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Dmitry Utkin</a><span class="noprint" style=""> [<a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D1%82%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD,%D0%94%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B9%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%8C%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87" class="extiw" title="ru:Уткин, Дмитрий Валерьевич" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">ru</a>]</span>, also under sanctions,<sup id="cite_ref-2017sanctions_11-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concord_Management_and_Consulting#cite_note-2017sanctions-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a></sup> became the CEO of Concord Management and Consulting on November 14, 2017.<sup id="cite_ref-utkinceo_2-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concord_Management_and_Consulting#cite_note-utkinceo-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concord_Management_and_Consulting#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a></sup> Utkin is the founder of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagner_Group" title="Wagner Group" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Wagner Group</a> a private military contractor. He replaced Anastasia Sautina.<sup id="cite_ref-utkinceo_2-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concord_Management_and_Consulting#cite_note-utkinceo-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Indictment">Indictment</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Concord_Management_and_Consulting&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Indictment" style="text-decoration-line: none; 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background: none;">interfering in the 2016 U.S. elections</a></font></div></div></div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">A February 2018 indictment by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Justice_Department" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Justice Department" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States Justice Department</a> alleged that Concord Management and Consulting began operations in 2014 with the intention to financially support a group known as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Research_Agency" title="Internet Research Agency" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Internet Research Agency</a> which <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections" title="Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">interfered</a> with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_States_Presidential_election" class="mw-redirect" title="2016 United States Presidential election" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2016 United States Presidential election</a> won by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_J.Trump" class="mw-redirect" title="Donald J. Trump" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Donald J. Trump</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concord_Management_and_Consulting#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concord_Management_and_Consulting#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a></sup></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">An initial hearing was in May 2018.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concord_Management_and_Consulting#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[15]</a></sup> On Friday, November 16, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hill(newspaper)" title="The Hill (newspaper)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Hill</a></i> reported a U.S. Federal Judge upholding <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mueller" title="Robert Mueller" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Robert Mueller</a>'s indictment.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Hearings continued throughout the year and into 2019.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concord_Management_and_Consulting#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[16]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concord_Management_and_Consulting#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; 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background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Timeline of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections</font></a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_investigations_into_Trump_and_Russia(2018)(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Timeline of investigations into Trump and Russia (2018) (disambiguation)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Timeline of investigations into Trump and Russia (2018) (disambiguation)</font></a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_investigations_into_Trump_and_Russia(2019)" class="mw-redirect" title="Timeline of investigations into Trump and Russia (2019)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Timeline of investigations into Trump and Russia (2019)</font></a></li></ul><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Concord_Management_and_Consulting&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><div class="reflist" style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; list-style-type: decimal;"><div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns" style="column-width: 30em;"><ol class="references" style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 3.2em; padding: 0px; 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">18 February</span> 2018</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Fontanka.ru&rft.atitle=Peterburgskaja+sbytovaja+kompanija+bankrotit+%22GU+ZhKH%22+%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B1%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B3%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F+%D1%81%D0%B1%D1%8B%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%8F+%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F+%D0%B1%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%82+%C2%AB%D0%93%D0%A3+%D0%96%D0%9A%D0%A5%C2%BB&rft.date=2016-12-27&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fontanka.ru%2F2016%2F12%2F27%2F109&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AConcord+Management+and+Consulting" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-8" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concord_Management_and_Consulting#cite_ref-8" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a></b></span> }<span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.fontanka.ru/2016/08/17/153/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" b4b84="b4b84" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">"Prigozhin podobral ostatki oboronnogo goszakaza" <bdi lang="ru">Пригожин подобрал остатки оборонного госзаказа</bdi></a> [Prigozhin picked up the remnants of the defense order]. <i>Fontanka.ru</i> (in Russian). 22 August 2016<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">18 February</span> 2018</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Fontanka.ru&rft.atitle=Prigozhin+podobral+ostatki+oboronnogo+goszakaza+%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%BD+%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BB+%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BA%D0%B8+%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE+%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B0&rft.date=2016-08-22&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fontanka.ru%2F2016%2F08%2F17%2F153%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AConcord+Management+and+Consulting" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-9" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concord_Management_and_Consulting#cite_ref-9" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a></b></span> }<span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fontanka.ru/2016/10/05/099" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" b4b84="b4b84" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">"Fond Naval'nogo poprosil FSB proverit' Evgenija Prigozhina" <bdi lang="ru">Фонд Навального попросил ФСБ проверить Евгения Пригожина</bdi></a> [Fund Navalny asked the FSB to check Eugene Prigozhin]. <i>Fantanka.ru</i> (in Russian). 10 October 2016<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">19 February</span>2018</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Fantanka.ru&rft.atitle=Fond+Naval%27nogo+poprosil+FSB+proverit%27+Evgenija+Prigozhina+%D0%A4%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B4+%D0%9D%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE+%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BB+%D0%A4%D0%A1%D0%91+%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%8C+%D0%95%D0%B2%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F+%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0&rft.date=2016-10-10&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fontanka.ru%2F2016%2F10%2F05%2F099&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AConcord+Management+and+Consulting" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-10" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concord_Management_and_Consulting#cite_ref-10" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a></b></span> }<span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.fontanka.ru/2014/06/09/162/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" b4b84="b4b84" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">"<span class="cs1-kern-left" style="padding-left: 0.2em;">"</span>Konkord" nasleduet "Oboronservisu<span class="cs1-kern-right" style="padding-right: 0.2em;">"</span>" <bdi lang="ru">«Конкорд» наследует «Оборонсервису»</bdi></a>[Concord inherits Oboronservice]. <i>Fantanka.ru</i> (in Russian). 10 June 2014<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">19 February</span> 2018</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Fantanka.ru&rft.atitle=%22Konkord%22+nasleduet+%22Oboronservisu%22+%C2%AB%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4%C2%BB+%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B4%D1%83%D0%B5%D1%82+%C2%AB%D0%9E%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%83%C2%BB&rft.date=2014-06-10&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fontanka.ru%2F2014%2F06%2F09%2F162%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AConcord+Management+and+Consulting" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-2017sanctions-11" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;">^ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concord_Management_and_Consulting#cite_ref-2017sanctions_11-0" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:</span><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concord_Management_and_Consulting#cite_ref-2017sanctions_11-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFOffice_of_Foreign_Assets_Control2018" class="citation" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Foreign_Assets_Control" title="Office of Foreign Assets Control" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Office of Foreign Assets Control</a> (2018), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.treasury.gov/ofac/downloads/sdnnew17.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" upload.wikimedia.org="upload.wikimedia.org" wikipedia="wikipedia" commons="commons" icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif="Icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px"><i>CHANGES TO THE Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List SINCE JANUARY 1, 2017</i></a> <span class="cs1-format" style="">(PDF)</span><span class="reference-accessdate">, retrieved <span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">18 February</span> 2018</span></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=CHANGES+TO+THE+Specially+Designated+Nationals+and+Blocked+Persons+List+SINCE+JANUARY+1%2C+2017&rft.date=2018&rft.au=Office+of+Foreign+Assets+Control&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.treasury.gov%2Fofac%2Fdownloads%2Fsdnnew17.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AConcord+Management+and+Consulting" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-12" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concord_Management_and_Consulting#cite_ref-12" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a></b></span> }<span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fontanka.ru/2017/11/15/025/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" b4b84="b4b84" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">"Prigozhin pokazal milliarderskij trolling" <bdi lang="ru">Пригожин показал миллиардерский троллинг</bdi></a> [Prigozhin showed billionaires trolling]. <i>Fontanka.ru</i> (in Russian). 15 November 2017<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">18 February</span> 2018</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Fontanka.ru&rft.atitle=Prigozhin+pokazal+milliarderskij+trolling+%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%BD+%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BB+%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9+%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3&rft.date=2017-11-15&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fontanka.ru%2F2017%2F11%2F15%2F025%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AConcord+Management+and+Consulting" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-13" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concord_Management_and_Consulting#cite_ref-13" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a></b></span> }<span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/russian-dubbed-putin-chef-brain-behind-election-meddling-article-1.3825100" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" b4b84="b4b84" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">"Russian oligarch dubbed 'Putin's chef' was the brain behind his country's meddling in the 2016 U.S. election"</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Russian+oligarch+dubbed+%27Putin%27s+chef%27+was+the+brain+behind+his+country%27s+meddling+in+the+2016+U.S.+election&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nydailynews.com%2Fnews%2Fpolitics%2Frussian-dubbed-putin-chef-brain-behind-election-meddling-article-1.3825100&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AConcord+Management+and+Consulting" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-14" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concord_Management_and_Consulting#cite_ref-14" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a></b></span> }<span class="reference-text"><cite style="font-style: inherit;"><i>U.S. v. Internet Research Agency, et al</i></cite> (D.C. 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background: none; white-space: nowrap;">Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections</a></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dismissal_of_James_Comey" title="Dismissal of James Comey" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">Dismissal of James Comey</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_between_Trump_associates_and_Russian_officials" title="Links between Trump associates and Russian officials" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">Links between Trump associates and Russian officials</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump%E2%80%93Russia_dossier" title="Trump–Russia dossier" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">Trump–Russia dossier (Steele dossier)</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="padding: 0.25em 1em; line-height: 1.5em; text-align: right; white-space: nowrap; background-color: rgb(221, 221, 255); border-top: 2px solid rgb(253, 253, 253); width: 108.375px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Timelines</font></th><td class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="line-height: 1.5em; border-color: rgb(253, 253, 253); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); border-top-width: 2px; border-top-style: solid; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; width: 1215px; padding: 0px;"><div style="padding: 0em 0.25em;"><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.125em 0px; list-style-image: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" images="images" bullet-icon.svg="bullet-icon.svg" f1="f1"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections" title="Timeline of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">2016 election interference</a></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_investigations_into_Trump_and_Russia(2017)" title="Timeline of investigations into Trump and Russia (2017)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">2017 investigations</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;">2018 investigations <ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.125em 0px; list-style-image: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" images="images" bullet-icon.svg="bullet-icon.svg" f1="f1" display="display" inline="inline"><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_investigations_into_Trump_and_Russia(January%E2%80%93June_2018)" title="Timeline of investigations into Trump and Russia (January–June 2018)" style="text-decoration-line: none; 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background: none; white-space: nowrap;">Robert Mueller</a></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Rosenstein" title="Rod Rosenstein" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">Rod Rosenstein</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Barr" title="William Barr" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">William Barr</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_teams_involved_in_the_Special_Counsel_investigation(2017%E2%80%932019)" title="Legal teams involved in the Special Counsel investigation (2017–2019)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">Legal teams</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="padding: 0.25em 1em; 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(<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_charges_brought_in_the_Special_Counsel_investigation(2017%E2%80%932019)" title="Criminal charges brought in the Special Counsel investigation (2017–2019)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">list of charges</a>)</font></th><td class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="line-height: 1.5em; border-color: rgb(253, 253, 253); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); border-top-width: 2px; border-top-style: solid; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; width: 1215px; padding: 0px;"><div style="padding: 0em 0.25em;"><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.125em 0px; list-style-image: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" images="images" bullet-icon.svg="bullet-icon.svg" f1="f1"><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At large: </font><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.125em 0px; list-style-image: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" images="images" bullet-icon.svg="bullet-icon.svg" f1="f1" display="display" inline="inline"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><li style="margin: 0px; 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background: none; white-space: nowrap;">Yevgeny Prigozhin</a></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a class="mw-selflink selflink" style="text-decoration: inherit; background: none; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; white-space: nowrap;">Concord Management and Consulting</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Research_Agency" title="Internet Research Agency" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">Internet Research Agency (IRA)</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fancy_Bear" title="Fancy Bear" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">Fancy Bear</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Kilimnik" title="Konstantin Kilimnik" style="text-decoration-line: none; 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background: none; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; white-space: nowrap;">Concord Management and Consulting</a></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Manafort" title="Paul Manafort" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">Paul Manafort</a> <ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.125em 0px; list-style-image: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" images="images" bullet-icon.svg="bullet-icon.svg" f1="f1" display="display" inline="inline"><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trials_of_Paul_Manafort" title="Trials of Paul Manafort" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">trials</a> – found guilty</li></ul></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Stone" title="Roger Stone" style="text-decoration-line: none; 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background: none;">Organizations associated with Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections</a></li></ul></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Internet Research Agency</font></h2><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable" style="padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Main article: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Research_Agency" title="Internet Research Agency" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Internet Research Agency</a></font></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Prigozhin has been connected to and is alleged to have financed and directed<sup id="cite_ref-CNN180223_17-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Prigozhin#cite_note-CNN180223-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a></sup> a network of companies including a company called the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Research_Agency" title="Internet Research Agency" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Internet Research Agency</a> Ltd., (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Russian</a>: <span lang="ru">ООО «Агентство интернет-исследований»</span>)<sup id="cite_ref-mr7.ru_30.05.2014_18-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Prigozhin#cite_note-mr7.ru_30.05.2014-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[18]</a></sup> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concord_Management_and_Consulting" title="Concord Management and Consulting" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Concord Management and Consulting</a> Company and one other related company.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_1-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Prigozhin#cite_note-auto-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup> The three companies are accused of Internet trolling and attempting to influence the 2016 US presidential elections and other activity to influence political events outside Russia.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Russian journalist Andrey Soshnikov reported that Alexey Soskovets, who had participated in Russian youth political community, was directly connected to the offices of Internet Research in Olgino. His company, North-Western Service Agency, won 17 or 18 (according to different sources) contracts for organizing celebrations, forums and sport competitions for authorities of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Petersburg" title="Saint Petersburg" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Saint Petersburg</a>. The agency was the only participant in half of those bids. In the summer of 2013 the agency won a tender for providing freight services for participants of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seliger(forum)" title="Seliger (forum)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Seliger</a> camp.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Prigozhin#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[19]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Despite links to Alexei Soskovets, Nadejda Orlova, deputy head of the Committee for Youth Policy in Saint Petersburg, disputed connection between her institution and the trolling offices.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2018)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></font></p><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Spin offs</font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Campaigns against opposition in 2013 involved <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Bykov" title="Dmitry Bykov" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Dmitry Bykov</a> and the then head of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIA_Novosti" title="RIA Novosti" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">RIA Novosti</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svetlana_Mironyuk" title="Svetlana Mironyuk" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Svetlana Mironyuk</a>, while a homepage claiming to fight fake news (<i>Gazeta O Gazetah</i>) was used to spread fake news.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Prigozhin#cite_note-20" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[20]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">US Treasury Department sanctions</font></h2><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable" style="padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Main article: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_sanctions_during_the_Ukrainian_crisis" title="International sanctions during the Ukrainian crisis" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">International sanctions during the Ukrainian crisis</a></font></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">On 20 December 2016, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Treasury_Department" class="mw-redirect" title="US Treasury Department" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">US Treasury Department</a> designated Prigozhin pursuant to E.O.13661 for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_sanctioned_during_the_Ukrainian_crisis" title="List of people sanctioned during the Ukrainian crisis" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">sanctions</a> for providing support to senior officials of the Russian Federation.<sup id="cite_ref-Ukraine-EO13661_21-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Prigozhin#cite_note-Ukraine-EO13661-21" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[21]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-US161220_22-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Prigozhin#cite_note-US161220-22" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[22]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Prigozhin#cite_note-23" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[23]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In June 2017 US sanctions were imposed on one of Prigozhin's companies, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concord_Management_and_Consulting" title="Concord Management and Consulting" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Concord Management and Consulting</a>, in connection with the war in Eastern Ukraine.<sup id="cite_ref-uawire.org_15-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Prigozhin#cite_note-uawire.org-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[15]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-US170620_24-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Prigozhin#cite_note-US170620-24" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[24]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Prigozhin#cite_note-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[25]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">On 28 January 2018, the US Treasury Department also designated Evro Polis Ltd for sanctions. Evro Polis is a Russian company that has contracted with the Government of Syria to protect Syrian oil fields in exchange for a 25 percent share in oil and gas production from the fields. The company was designated for being owned or controlled by Yevgeniy Prigozhin. The sanctions require that any property or interests in property of the designated persons in the possession or control of U.S. persons or within the United States must be blocked. Additionally, transactions by U.S. persons involving these persons (including companies) are generally prohibited.<sup id="cite_ref-US180126_26-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Prigozhin#cite_note-US180126-26" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[26]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Prigozhin#cite_note-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[27]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">US criminal charges</font></h2><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable" style="padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Main article: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Counsel_investigation(2017%E2%80%932019)" title="Special Counsel investigation (2017–2019)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Special Counsel investigation (2017–2019)</a></font></div><table role="presentation" class="mbox-small plainlinks sistersitebox" style="clear: right; float: right; margin: 4px 0px 4px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; width: 238px; line-height: 1.25em; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170);"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image" style="border: none; padding: 2px 0px 2px 0.9em; text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/38px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="38" height="40" class="noviewer" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/57px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/76px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="410" data-file-height="430" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /></font></td><td class="mbox-text plainlist" style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0.9em; width: 157.844px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Wikisource</a> has original text related to this article:</font><div style="margin-left: 10px;"><b><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Internet_Research_Agency_Indictment" class="extiw" title="wikisource:Internet Research Agency Indictment" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Internet Research Agency Indictment</font></a></b></div></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">On 16 February 2018, Prigozhin, the Internet Research Agency, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concord_Management_and_Consulting" title="Concord Management and Consulting" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Concord Management</a>, another related company, and other connected Russian individuals were indicted by a U.S. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_jury" title="Grand jury" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">grand jury</a>. He was charged with funding and organizing operations for the purpose of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections" title="Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">interference with the U.S. political and electoral processes</a>, including the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_States_presidential_election" title="2016 United States presidential election" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2016 presidential election</a>, and other crimes including identity theft.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Prigozhin#cite_note-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[28]</a></sup></font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">AN</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Recent court filings suggest special counsel Robert Mueller is planning to indict additional Russians for crimes related to 2016 election interference.</font></p><div class="p1_11" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mueller has referred to “uncharged individuals” and “ongoing investigations” in the case involving Paul Manafort, and just last week sought to keep evidence restricted from Russians not yet charged but suspected of trying to “interfere with lawful U.S. government functions,” <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/428616-mueller-probe-filings-raise-prospect-of-more-indictments" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">reported The Hill</a>.</font></p><div class="p2_11" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="teadsNative" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“My hunch is that we are going to see more indictments of Russians,” said Glenn Kirschner, former assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia and now an MSNBC legal analyst.</font></p><div class="p3_11" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The special counsel charged 13 Russians and three Russian firms last February with conspiracy to defraud the United States as part of a plot involving the Internet Research Agency, a so-called troll farm that manipulated social media to push divisive propaganda during the 2016 campaign.</font></p><div class="p4_11" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Two Washington-based lawyers have been hired to represent Concord Management and Consulting, which allegedly funded the troll operation, and some legal experts believe Russia is hoping to obtain sensitive discovery documents from the U.S. attorneys.</font></p><div class="p5_11" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mueller objected last week to the company’s request for “sensitive” documents through pretrial discovery, and that court filing revealed that some U.S. government evidence had already been released as part of an apparent disinformation campaign intended to discredit the special counsel investigation.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The special counsel also argued that lifting restrictions on those docuents, which are currently subject to a federal judge’s protection order, would expose evidence about “uncharged individuals and entities” suspected of possible crimes “like those activities charged in the indictment.”</font></p><div class="p7_11" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="p6_11" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mueller wrote in that court filing that his information could jeopardize “sources, methods and techniques” used to identify those foreign suspects, and last month he also acknowledged an active grand jury probe related to that case.</font></p><div class="p8_11" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More than two dozen Russians and six Trump associates have been charged as part of the special counsel investigation, and a dozen more Russian intelligence officers have also been charged with hacking the Democratic National Committee and U.S. election infrastructure.</font></p><div class="p9_11" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Acting attorney general Matt Whitaker has said Mueller’s probe was “close” to completion, echoing comments by the president’s personal attorneys, but legal experts say “all outward signs” suggest the investigation was “still active and ongoing.”</font></p><div class="p10_11" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I think there is reason to believe something else is coming, Randall Eliason, a George Washington University law professor, told The Hill. “I just don’t see any outward signs this investigation is close to wrapping up.”</font></p></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>