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You are here: Home / Foreign Affairs / Trump Administration Cribbed List of Oligarchs

Trump Administration Cribbed List of Oligarchs

January 30, 2018 at 12:02 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The striking similarity between a newly-released Treasury Department report of Russian oligarchs and a 2017 list of wealthy Russians published in Forbes Magazine is no coincidence,” BuzzFeed News reports.

“On Tuesday, a Treasury Department spokesperson confirmed… that the unclassified annex of the report was derived from Forbes’ ranking of the ‘200 richest businessmen in Russia 2017.'”

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