“Maria Butina, the Russian woman charged in federal court last week with acting as an unregistered agent of her government, received financial support from Konstantin Nikolaev, a Russian billionaire with investments in U.S. energy and technology companies,” the Washington Post reports.
“Nikolaev’s son Andrey, who is studying in the United States, volunteered in the 2016 campaign in support of Trump’s candidacy… Nikolaev was spotted at the Trump International Hotel in Washington during Trump’s inauguration in January 2017.”
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