NEW: Len Blavatnik has pumped up his donations to American politicians the past few months—with Democrats and Republicans alike more than willing to take his biggest political donations ever. bellingcat.com/news/2019/10/2…
Context: A few weeks ago, some of the leading anti-kleptocracy/anti-corruption voices in the U.S., Ukraine, and Russia signed a letter saying Blavatnik's donations help export "Russian kleptocratic practices to the West.” bellingcat.com/news/2019/10/1…
Blavatnik, who gave $1 million to Trump's inaugural fund, was also involved in Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference efforts, and has worked closely in the past with sanctioned figures like Viktor Vekselberg: abcnews.go.com/Politics/exclu…
Now, Blavatnik just issued his biggest political donation in the U.S. to date—to @GOPLeader's joint fundraising committee. bellingcat.com/news/2019/10/2…
@GOPLeader More remarkably, Blavatnik also offered the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (@dccc) his second-largest political donation ever—which the DCCC accepted.

Combined with Blavatnik's wife's donation, it's as much as any other individual donation the DCCC's ever received.
@GOPLeader @dccc (The @dccc never responded to my questions about why they accepted Blavatnik's money.)
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