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<p helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">no lnx vid twt pix</font></p><p helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Rudy Giuliani Flew Into Ukraine On A Budget Flight. He Left On A Private Jet.</b></font></p><p helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The private jet used by Giuliani is connected to some of Ukraine’s most controversial figures — and costs $3,300 per hour.</font></p><p helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Christopher Miller</font></p><p helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">BuzzFeed Contributor</font></p><p helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Posted on December 18, 2019</font></p><p helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Rudy Giuliani flew to Kyiv on a budget airline when he visited earlier this month — but he left in style, on a private jet.</font></p><p helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">It was the afternoon of Dec. 4 when Giuliani flew to the Ukrainian capital from Hungary with low-cost commercial carrier WizzAir. He was there to film a three-part video series for the staunchly pro-Trump OAN channel, which framed the trip as a mission to “destroy” the Democrats’ impeachment narrative.</font></p><p helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Flying WizzAir, which demands that customers pay for everything à la carte and forces them to fight for unassigned seats and overhead bin space, often feels like a particularly chaotic Black Friday at Best Buy.</font></p><p helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">After experiencing that, it’s no wonder Giuliani wanted to fly out of Kyiv on a private jet.</font></p><p helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">According to flight data, videos, and photographs analyzed by BuzzFeed News, and confirmed by a Giuliani associate who joined him, the former mayor of New York left on a flight from Kyiv to Vienna on the night of Dec. 6, aboard a Beechcraft Premier 1A light business aircraft with<b>&nbsp;tail number T7-UTS.</b></font></p><p helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>That number ties the jet to ICS Aero, a company that’s registered in the tiny state of San Marino, famous for its corrupt business practices, but operates out of Kyiv</b>.&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Ukrainian media have reported that the company’s owner is Alexander Rovt, a Ukrainian American</span>. The logo of another Rovt company, IBE Trade Corp, which adorns the tails of the company’s jets, provides further evidence of Rovt’s ownership.</font></p><p helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">OAN / Via youtube.com</font></p><p helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">A screenshot from the OAN show about Ukraine.</font></p><p helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Rovt has done business in the past with Dmytro Firtash,&nbsp;</b>a Ukrainian oligarch with ties to organized crime and the Kremlin who is currently under house arrest in Vienna and is fighting extradition to the US, where he faces federal bribery charges. While those charges are unrelated to the House impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump, Firtash has been at the nexus of Trump and Giuliani’s effort to undermine their enemies.</font></p><p helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">On Tuesday, prosecutors said in court that a lawyer for Firtash paid $1 million to one of Giuliani’s Ukraine campaign cohorts, Lev Parnas, and Parnas’s wife. In an interview with Reuters published on Wednesday, the Firtash lawyer, Ralph Isenegger, said he loaned the Parnases the money to purchase a home in Florida.</font></p><p helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Parnas and another Giuliani associate, Igor Fruman, have been charged with funneling illegal contributions to a member of Congress, whose help they sought during their back-channel Ukraine campaign to remove former US Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch from her post in Kyiv.</font></p><p helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Giuliani’s use of the private jet raises questions about how he is funding his back-channel Ukraine campaign to dig up dirt on Trump’s political rivals. And it is likely to come under scrutiny from congressional Democrats who back Trump’s impeachment and federal prosecutors in Manhattan who are reportedly investigating whether Giuliani broke lobbying laws in c<b>onducting his back-channel Ukraine campaign, including his efforts to undermine Yovanovitch</b>, who was recalled in April.</font></p><p helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Neither Giuliani nor his spokesperson responded to BuzzFeed News’ requests for comments. Rovt didn’t respond to an emailed request, nor did the communications offices of ICS Aero and OAN.</font></p><p helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Rovt, a towering New York real estate investor with Ukrainian roots, made his billions in producing and trading fertilizer. In 2011, he sold his overseas fertilizer assets to Firtash in a deal that involved a Russian chemical conglomerate, according to Bloomberg.</b></font></p><p helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But Rovt appears to have retained close ties to powerful elites in Ukraine. In 2016, then-president Petro Poroshenko awarded him the Order of Yaroslav the Wise for distinguished services to the state and the people of Ukraine, according to a decree published on the presidential website.</font></p><p helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Rovt, a pro-Trumper, reportedly tried to donate $10,000 to the president’s campaign on Election Day but had all but the legal $2,700 maximum returned. He’s also connected to a $3.5 million mortgage loan to former Trump campaign chair and convicted financial fraudster Paul Manafort, through a real estate investment firm founded by a former Trump business partner.</b></font></p><p helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Joining Giuliani was his spokesperson Allen,<b>&nbsp;OAN host Chanel Rion,</b>&nbsp;an OAN camera operator, and a former Ukrainian diplomat by the name of Andriy&nbsp;<b>Telizhenko</b>whom Trumpworld has held up as a “whistleblower” of its own.</font></p><p helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In Kyiv, the group met with several controversial Ukrainian political figures, including former prosecutors general Viktor Shokin and Yuriy Lutsenko, both of whom have peddled disinformation to Giuliani for months.<b>&nbsp;Giuliani’s visit sent Kyiv into a frenzy, with Zelensky’s office working hard to avoid and ignore the former New York mayor and journalists running around trying to find him.</b></font></p><p helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Shortly after the visit, OAN released video footage of Giuliani’s trip. BuzzFeed News was able to identify the jet he flew out on by matching the one in the OAN video and a tweet from Allen when the group was on board with publicly available photographs that showed similar stripes, logos, and interior. Telizhenko then confirmed the plane information by phone from Kyiv.</font></p><p helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Asked how the plane was booked for the group, Telizhenko said: “We had a company that we use book the flight and that’s it. The guy you’re talking about [Rovt], I didn’t even know who owned the plane. We got it through a third company. I heard about that guy before and he has a lot of planes all over Europe, so that’s why it’s convenient</span>."</font></p><p helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Telizhenko said that Vienna was the chosen destination because its airport offered more flight options to Washington than the alternative offered by the charter company, Warsaw.</font></p><p helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>“It wasn’t Vienna because it was Vienna</b>,” Telizhenko said when asked if the destination had anything to do with possibly meeting Firtash in the Austrian capital. “It was a transfer. The next morning [Giuliani] flew out [to the US]. I can guarantee you that no meetings of that kind [with Firtash] happened.”</font></p><p helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“Plus it’s not expensive because it was a group of people with bags and everything else," he added. "It was the same price to use a charter as to buy tickets for everybody [on a commercial flight only a few hours in advance].”</font></p><p helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>The Beechcraft appears to have been booked through VipSky, a Kyiv-based charter company. Its website lists the Beechcraft Premier 1A as costing $3,300 per hour.</b></font></p><p helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">While it’s not clear who paid for the flight, Telizhenko said he believed that “Mr. Giuliani paid for [the flight] himself.”</font></p><p helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“If OAN reimbursed him or not, I don’t know. But I know he paid for himself and that’s it,” he added.</font></p><p helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The jet departed from Kyiv at about 12 a.m. local time and landed in Vienna at 12:56 a.m. local time, according to publicly available flight trackers. That would mean the flight lasted around two hours, for a cost of at least $6,600.</font></p><p helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">City Of Kharkiv / Via city.kharkov.ua</font></p><p helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Giuliani steps off a plane adorned with the IBE Trade logo in Kharkiv, Ukraine, in 2017.</font></p><p helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>This appears to be the second time Giuliani has used a jet owned by Rovt’s ICS Aero. Giuliani flew on another one adorned with the IBE Trade logo from London to the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv in 2017,</b>&nbsp;flight data and photographs published by the city of Kharkiv show. Giuliani visited Kharkiv to consult with the city on security issues, according to a press release at the time.</font></p><p helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Flying the luxurious private skies is indicative of the way Ukraine’s elite travel to and from Western Europe. ICS Aero planes adorned with Rovt’s IBE Trade logo have been used by several prominent Ukrainian figures, including former president Poroshenko, his scandal-plagued business partner, and a former Ukrainian lawmaker who once boasted about having his own private militia to assassinate an unarmed pro-Russian separatist.</font></p><p helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Christopher Miller is a Kyiv-based American journalist and editor.</font></p><p helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></p><p helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Contact Christopher Miller at christopher.miller@buzzfeed.com.</font></font></p><p helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></font></p><p helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></p><p helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></font></p><p helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">wapo</font></font></p><div class="flex" style="display: flex;"><div class="items-center" style="align-items: center;"><div class="mb-md gray-dark font--subhead font-xxs" data-qa="timestamp" style="margin-bottom: 24px; line-height: 1.25;"><div class="display-date"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>november 4, 2019&nbsp;</b></font></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" style=""><div class="teaser-content"><section><div><p class="font--body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md " style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 24px; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The fact that the two biggest controversies of the Trump presidency have revolved around Russia and Ukraine — two former Soviet republics in a state of perpetual conflict — might have seemed like a strange coincidence.</font></p></div><div /><div><p class="font--body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md " style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 24px; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More and more, we’re learning it's not.</font></p></div><div><p class="font--body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md " style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 24px; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/internal-mueller-documents-show-trump-campaign-chief-suggested-ukraine-hacked-democrats-during-2016-campaign/2019/11/02/cc8e461c-fd90-11e9-ac8c-8eced29ca6ef_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_5" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213);">trove of documents</a>&nbsp;from Robert S. Mueller III’s Russia investigation released over the weekend show that Trump’s Ukraine conspiracy theory appears to have been propagated by two top aides who were central figures in the special counsel’s investigation: Paul Manafort and Michael Flynn. The conspiracy theory also was apparently fertilized by Manafort associate Konstantin Kilimnik.</font></p></div></section></div><div class="remainder-content"><section><div><p class="font--body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md " style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 24px; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The three of them appear to have played a role in convincing Trump that Russia did not actually interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, despite what both Mueller and the U.S. intelligence community have concluded, and that it was actually Ukraine. Trump and his personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani have since set about trying to get Ukraine to investigate the allegations, including by allegedly leveraging hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid and a much-sought Oval Office meeting for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/10/29/public-confirmations-quid-pro-quo-between-trump-ukraine/?itid=lk_inline_manual_6" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213);">alleged corrupt quid pro quos</a>&nbsp;are now at the center of the House’s&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/09/25/what-you-need-know-about-impeachment-inquiry-into-trump/?itid=lk_inline_manual_6" target="blank" class="contextual_link" style="text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213);">impeachment inquiry</a>&nbsp;of Trump.</font></p></div><div /><div /><div><p class="font--body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md " style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 24px; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">To recap, that’s three people with controversial ties to Russia, two of whom are convicted criminals (Manafort and Flynn) and another who has been indicted (Kilimnik). Trump is apparently trying to prove their theory, to this day.</font></p></div><div><p class="font--body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md " style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 24px; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rick Gates, a former Manafort deputy and Trump campaign aide, told investigators that the three of them were pushing the theory to Trump. According to the newly released Mueller documents, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Gates told investigators that “Flynn was adamant the Russians did not carry out the hack” and that Flynn told Trump that U.S. intelligence “was not capable of figuring it out.” He also said that Manafort said the hack of Democratic emails “was likely carried out by the Ukrainians, not the Russians.” And Gates said Manafort’s theory was “parroted” from Kilimnik, who “also opined the hack could have been perpetrated by Russian operatives in Ukraine.</span>”</font></p></div><div><p class="font--body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md " style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 24px; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gates pleaded guilty to lying to investigators before he began cooperating with Mueller’s team.</font></p><p class="font--body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md " style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 24px; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">mueller’s investigators concluded that Kilimnik, Manafort’s associate in Ukraine, had ongoing ties to Russian intelligence during this whole period. They have&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/special-counsel-mueller-indicts-associate-of-paul-manafort/2018/06/08/507ae696-6b44-11e8-bf8c-f9ed2e672adf_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_14" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213);">indicted him for witness tampering</a>, although he is unlikely to ever face the charges, given that he is overseas.</font></p></div><div><p class="font--body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md " style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 24px; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But he is hardly the only one with a controversial relationship with Russia.</font></p></div><div><p class="font--body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md " style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 24px; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Manafort, Trump’s former campaign chairman, has ties to Russia and Russian interests dating back more than a decade,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/03/22/timeline-paul-manaforts-long-murky-history-of-political-interventions/?itid=lk_inline_manual_16" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213);">as Philip Bump has documented</a>. He was indicted after documents revealed nearly $13 million in undisclosed payments from a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine. </b>The New York Times reported in July 2017 that Manafort was&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/19/us/politics/paul-manafort-russia-trump.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213);">$17 million in debt</a>&nbsp;to pro-Russian interests in Ukraine. He and Gates were also in business with Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, who&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/russian-tycoon-sues-former-trump-campaign-manager-manafort/2018/01/10/8e9f09ac-f64b-11e7-beb6-c8d48830c54d_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_16" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213);">sued them in 2018</a>&nbsp;for allegedly defrauding him to the tune of $19 million. There is evidence that Manafort signed&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2017/03/28/russian-billionaire-attempts-to-stifle-ap-scoop/?itid=lk_inline_manual_16" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213);">a $10 million a year contract with Deripaska</a>&nbsp;in 2006 to push a proposal that was pitched as something that “can greatly benefit the Putin Government,” and there is also evidence that Manafort took out&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/search-warrants-give-details-about-paul-manaforts-financial-entanglement-with-a-russian-oligarch/2018/06/27/45d5431e-7a56-11e8-80be-6d32e182a3bc_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_16" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213);">a $10 million loan from Deripaska</a>&nbsp;at one point.</font></p><p class="font--body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md " style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 24px; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>flynn’s ties to Russia are more tenuous, but he has made a series of curious decisions involving himself with it</b>. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">In 2013, as the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency in the Obama administration, he became the first U.S. official to visit Russia’s GRU, its military intelligence agency</span>. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Flynn then reportedly&nbsp;<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/27/michael-flynn-general-chaos" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213);">sought to invite GRU officers to the United States</a>, even after Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine</span>. <b>After leaving the Obama administration, Flynn sat next to Russian President Vladimir Putin at a gala in 2015 for the English-language Russian propaganda channel RT and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/new-details-released-on-russia-related-payments-to-flynn-before-he-joined-trump-campaign/2017/03/16/52a4205a-0a55-11e7-a15f-a58d4a988474_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_19" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213);">was paid $45,000</a>&nbsp;for his trip. He was paid another $23,000 by Russia-tied entities that year, according to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/apps/g/page/politics/documents-give-details-on-russia-related-payments-to-michael-flynn/2180/?itid=lk_inline_manual_19" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213);">documents released in 2017</a>.</b></font></p></div><div><p class="font--body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md " style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 24px; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>When serving briefly as Trump’s national security adviser in early 2017, Flynn lied to Vice President Pence and investigators about his talks with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak,</b> claiming they had not discussed sanctions during the transition period even though they had. It was enough to cause Sally Yates, then acting attorney general, to warn the White House&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/justice-department-warned-white-house-that-flynn-could-be-vulnerable-to-russian-blackmail-officials-say/2017/02/13/fc5dab88-f228-11e6-8d72-263470bf0401_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_20" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213);">that Flynn was vulnerable to Russian blackmail</a>. Flynn would later plead guilty to lying to the investigators.</font></p></div><div><p class="font--body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md " style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 24px; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So we have two men who have been convicted of offenses related to their Russia ties, have both lied to investigators about their interactions with Russian interests, and who apparently played a significant role in pushing a theory to Trump that Russia did not actually interfere in the 2016 election. They instead pointed the finger at Russia’s nemesis, Ukraine, and that has apparently stuck with Trump for more than three years. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Flynn’s alleged effort to push Trump to be skeptical of the U.S. intelligence community in which Flynn served seems to have proven particularly long-lasting, despite Flynn’s conviction and his predilection for conspiracy theories such as&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/pizzagate-from-rumor-to-hashtag-to-gunfire-in-dc/2016/12/06/4c7def50-bbd4-11e6-94ac-3d324840106c_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_21" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213);">Pizzagate</a>.</span></font></p></div><div><p class="font--body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md " style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 24px; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>And now Trump has pushed the theory so far, despite&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/09/25/trumps-mention-crowdstrike-call-with-ukraines-president-recalls-russian-hack-dnc/?itid=lk_inline_manual_22" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213);">its baselessness</a>, that it has put him on course for impeachment. 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Curt Weldon and&nbsp;<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">New</span>&nbsp;<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">York</span>&nbsp;<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">real</span>&nbsp;<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">estate</span>&nbsp;mogul&nbsp;<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Alexander</span>&nbsp;<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Rovt</span>&nbsp;were involved, said Artemenko, who also participated. ...&nbsp;<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Trump's</span>&nbsp;campaign chairman.&nbsp;<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Manafort</span>&nbsp;has since been ...</font></div></div></div><div id="r1-3" class="result results_links_deep highlight_d result--url-above-snippet" data-domain="www.washingtonpost.com" data-hostname="www.washingtonpost.com" data-nir="1" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; 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The&nbsp;<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">New</span>&nbsp;<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">York</span>&nbsp;Times reported in July 2017 that ... Vladimir&nbsp;<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Putin</span>&nbsp;at a gala in 2015 for the English ...</font></div></div></div><div id="r1-4" class="result results_links_deep highlight_d result--url-above-snippet" data-domain="www.tampabay.com" data-hostname="www.tampabay.com" data-nir="1" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); position: relative; overflow-wrap: break-word; border-radius: 4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="resultbody links_main links_deep" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.5em 10px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; 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line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Rovt</span>, for the war in which&nbsp;<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Putin</span>&nbsp;is an aggressor in Feb. 2016 and @patrickLSimpson published it as a byproduct of our #GrandOldPutinParty series.</font></div></div></div><div id="r1-6" class="result results_links_deep highlight_d result--url-above-snippet" data-domain="www.nytimes.com" data-hostname="www.nytimes.com" data-nir="1" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); position: relative; overflow-wrap: break-word; border-radius: 4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="resultbody links_main links_deep" style="margin: 0px; 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line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">real</span>&nbsp;<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">estate</span>&nbsp;investments in&nbsp;<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">New</span>&nbsp;<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">York</span>&nbsp;and is an investor in its lending business, is active in the Ukrainian-American community.</font></div></div></div><div id="r1-7" class="result results_links_deep highlight_d result--url-above-snippet" data-domain="www.dailykos.com" data-hostname="www.dailykos.com" data-nir="1" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; 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