Sam Patten, Manafort associate, charged with violating foreign agents act
A veteran Republican lobbyist with reported ties to a Russian national whom special counsel Robert Mueller indicted in June has been charged with foreign lobbying violations, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington, DC, announced Friday.
Samuel Patten, a self-described international political consultant, is accused of acting “as an agent of a foreign principal, to wit, the Opposition Bloc (a Ukrainian political party) and its members, without registering” as a foreign lobbyist, according court documents filed Friday.
According to media reports, Patten has business ties to Konstantin Kilimnik, who was indicted by special counsel Robert Mueller earlier this year alongside former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/sam-patten-manafort-associate-charged-violating-foreign-agents/story?id=57528245