"Federal election law prohibits foreign nationals from giving money to the inauguration, and there have been indications that foreigners have used straw men, or in this case Americans donating on behalf of foreigners, to circumvent these laws."
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"Businesses that donated at the $1 million level included Bank of America, Boeing, Dow Chemical, Pfizer and Qualcomm.
Companies also gave huge in-kind contributions of goods and services, including $2.1 million from AT&T for mobile equipment and software, nearly $500,000 in “vehicle expenses” from General Motors and $500,000 in equipment from Microsoft."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/who-were-the-top-donors-to-trumps-inauguration/
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boycott those who work with foreign oligarchs to own America and our government.
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The Washington Post pulls down the curtain
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moments after this gets posted. Oh, plus "Boeing Firtash"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/impeachment-trial-live-updates/2020/02/05/a7a79daa-4807-11ea-ab15-b5df3261b710_story.html?itid=hp_hp-bignews3_impeachment-ticker-1020am%3Aprime-time%2Fpromo#comments-wrapper
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https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-inaugural-committee-subpoenaed-crimes-people-being-investigated-1318329
Federal election law prohibits foreign nationals from giving money to the inauguration, and there have been indications that foreigners have used straw men, or in this case Americans donating on behalf of foreigners, to circumvent these laws.
Andrew Intrater, the American cousin of Russian billionaire Viktor Vekselberg, developed a close relationship with Cohen in order to gain access to the GOP, including through the inauguration, notes Olga Lautman, an investigative reporter who tracks Trump's ties to Russia.
"They spoke for months, which led to Intrater and Cohen sitting together at Trump's inauguration dinner with Vekselberg, who is close to Putin," Lautman told Newsweek. "Eleven days before Trump's inauguration, oligarch Vekselberg met with Michael Cohen at Trump Tower. Vekselberg came to discuss Russia relations with Cohen, attended the inauguration, and then flew to see Putin on Jan 26th."
Federal Election Commission records demonstrate that Vekselberg's cousin Intrater donated $250,000 to the Trump inauguration committee in January 2017.
Donations from Leonard Blavatnik, an American businessman and GOP donor with financial ties to Russia, are also expected to be a subject of interest. Blavatnik's company Access Industries donated $1 million to the inaugural committee.
The committee also accepted a $1 million donation from a Russian-American millionaire named Alexander Shustorovich, who has hinted at his ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev in previous interviews.
Mueller's team is reportedly looking into whether donors from Russia, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates gave illegal donations to the committee.
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