THREAD: 1/ It appears that 4 months after he pleaded guilty & cooperated, Sam Patten is in the news again. Mueller had filed a status report to the court UNDER SEAL, likely about his level of cooperation & a sentencing update. Sit down, let me tell you about Sam Patten...
2/ Sam Patten is a GOP lobbyist, Manafort associate, and Cambridge Analytica employee, so this guy could be a cooperation GOLD MINE. He's pleaded guilty to failing to register as a foreign agent under FARA August 31, 2018. If you listen to MSW, you will know all this from ep 44
3/ Sam Patten worked for the same pro-Putin Ukranian faction called the Opposition Bloc and was allegedly the boss of one Konstantin Kilimnik. Mueller Junkies know him as the go-between for Manafort and Deripaska/Kremlin...
4/ Don't forget we learned this week that Boyarkin, an ex-RU spy, confirmed with @TIME that Manafort had paid back a $19M dept to Deripaska by giving him private briefings on the Trump campaign: of of which was caught on video by sex coach and Deripaska boat-ho, Nastya Rybka...
5/ Anyhoo, Sam Patten and Kilimnik started their own lobbying firm in 2015 and were paid a total of over a million smackaroos lobbying for Yanukovich's Cheif of Staff, Lovochkin. Lovochkin paid both Manafort and Patten for lobbying for him and Yanukovich....
6/ As a reminder, Yanukovich is the pro-Putin Ukranian Manafort helped the Kremlin install. So Patten basically lobbied US Congress on behalf of Lovochkin without registering under FARA. But most importantly is what Patten did in relation to Trump's inaugural fund...
7/ As you know by now, there were EXCESSIVE amounts of money in Trump's inaugural, and there's no way his Scott Baio-high-school-marching-band-Ted-Nugent-bullshit-amateur-talent-show of an inaugural cost more than Obama's. Well, get this shiz...
8/ Patten is some of the strongest evidence that foreign money was funneled into the inaugural because he was used as a cut out to transfer $50K of Russian monies into the Trump fund by "purchasing" inaugural tickets for himself, Kilimnik, Lovochkin, and another Ukrainian...
9/ And the most interesting part: he used a Cypriote account. This is beans here, but remember in the Fusion GPS transcripts where they found notes on Manafort's phone from the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting that said "USE CYPRUS AS INTER"?
10/ Well, perhaps this was how they got RU money, through cyprus, using cut-outs in the US like Patten, Intrater, Vekselberg, etc... and into the Trump inaugural fund. Rivers of money from all different foreign sources. So what does it have to do with Trump Tower Meeting?
11/ Manafort, Kilimnik, and Patten were associates. They used cyprus accounts. Patten lobbied to US congress on behalf of Lovochnik which no DOUBT included Dana Rohrabacher. Veselnetskiya presented her Magnitsky crap to Rohrabacher... That's a lot of smoke, folks...
12/ So keep an eye on the Patten case. He is the first person Mueller has charged with dumping foreign $$ into the Trump inaugural. And don't forget who ran the inaugural fund. Tom Barrack; the guy that helped Manafort get the job as Trump's campaign chair. #PutSomeBeansOnIt
I'd like to submit this as a story to @Medium or @Slate or @BuzzFeed today, but I've never done that. Does anyone know how to submit en masse to these political pubs? Do they have a combined inbox somewhere? lol
PS/ It's important to note that this case was HANDED OFF by Mueller to DC, however, the plea agreement is for cooperation with the Mueller team. Presumably, the update today included information in the cooperation with special counsel, but it was not filed by special counsel.
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