NEW indictment of Manafort associate Sam Patten was referred to US attorney in DC by Mueller’s Russia probe.
Lobbyist Sam Patten worked with Manafort & Kilimnik in Ukraine, issues in upcoming ManafortTrial2. Patten also worked in Russia, Georgia, Kazakhstan. Reportedly also with Cambridge Analytica on campaigns. In early 2000s he headed IRI Moscow & worked w/Boris Nemtsov for reforms. 
In guilty plea for violation of FARA, lobbyist Samuel Patten agreed he acted as “straw donor” to steer illegal $50,000 foreign contribution to Trump inauguration committee. He now has a formal cooperation agreement. Just in time for Manafort trial 2. washingtonpost.com/local/public-s…
In addition to funneling illegal money to Trump inauguration, Patten helped Yanuk aide Lovochkin get meetings to lobby Congress and helped him author op-ed arguing "Ukraine will be fine under President Trump" & should get along w/ its neighbors😒ie lobbying for Russian interests.
Sam Patten, indicted Manafort-linked lobbyist, ties into many threads in Trump-Russia scandal—not least of which is work w/ Cambridge Analytica to rehab Putin image in America. Interestingly, Senate Intel Cmte made criminal referral of Patten. He is now cooperating with Mueller.
"Call off your trolls or I'll start releasing things about Misha." Fmr President of Georgia @MSaakashvili reads blackmail note from Sam Patten, indicted Manafort-linked lobbyist in Mueller probe. Misha says it's typical Russian MO—kompromat, blackmail—"any dirty trick for hire"
