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Atlas Tube is owned by a Canadian citizen whose company used one of his US based subsidiaries to donate more than $1 million to a Trump SuperPac. Now he is profiting by selling his steel tube for the border wall.
For more on this topic....nytimes.com/2019/05/20/us/…
Also generated a complaint to Federal Election Commission that this was an illegal campaign contribution nytimes.com/2019/05/21/us/…
Here is the complaint, which was based on my reporting. documentcloud.org/documents/6021…
WHEATLAND, LLC
CHICAGO, IL 6060610/17/18$500,000
WHEATLAND TUBE, LLC
CHICAGO, IL 6060606/04/18$250,000
WHEATLAND TUBE, LLC
CHICAGO, IL 6060604/05/18$1,000,000
Barry Zekelman, the CEO also was at Trump International Hotel in DC dinner with Trump in April 2018. Lev Parnas was there too. Whole event was recorded as Zekeman repeatedly pushed Trump to take steps to benefit his businesses. We wrote about that too. nytimes.com/2020/01/26/us/…
How did my reporting on this topic get started? I saw those donation for $1 million from something called Wheatland Tube LLC. And I wondered. What is this?
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