Thread by @WendySiegelman

With renewed focus on Kilimnik sharing polling data from Manafort and Gates with Russian intelligence - reminder of @imthemadridista scoop that in 2015 Kilimnik set up a company with Cambridge Analytica contractor Sam Patten

https://twitter.com/wendysiegelman/status/1035670357619998720

Kilimnik worked for Sam Patten in Russia from 2001-2003 before Kilimnik went to work for Manafort

here’s Sam Patten I’m 2006 with Rinat Akhmetshin who attended the June 2016 meeting in Trump Tower with Veselnitskaya and Don Jr, Manafort, Kushner etc

https://twitter.com/wendysiegelman/status/1035672370617503744

https://twitter.com/wendysiegelman/status/1095904385778008064

In 2015 Sam Patten & Konstantin Kilimnik set up Begemot Ventures

This story reports Patten had worked for team of Paul Manafort and that both were consultants to Vitali Klitschko for Oct 2015 Kiev mayoral race

HT @imthemadridista

kievvlast.com.ua/text/mayor_of_…

In addition to Manafort and Patten, Giuliani had also been an advisor and friend of Vitali Klitschko

Dmitry Firtash had reportedly boasted that he brokered Klitschko’s campaign

https://twitter.com/WendySiegelman/status/1071887489957314561?s=20

A 2018 story noted Kilimnik had told associates in recent months he was working with Sam Patten on business in Kazakhstan

So Kilimnik had a business with Patten from 2015 to 2018 - during period Kilimnik shared info from Manafort with Russian intelligence

https://twitter.com/WendySiegelman/status/1005433771611639808?s=20

A 2017 story by @NafeezAhmed broke the news about Sam Patten's work for Cambridge Analytica parent co SCL in Oregon while the firm was "fine-tuning its methodologies in 2014 before the presidential campaign"

https://twitter.com/WendySiegelman/status/1080299758667948032?s=20

And @EmmaLBriant interviewed Sam Patten who told her "I’ve worked in Ukraine, Iraq, I’ve worked in deeply corrupt countries, and our [the American] system isn’t very different."

old.parliament.uk/business/commi…