Lobbyist Samuel Patten, pleads guilty, says he helped steer foreign money to Trump inaugural and lied to Congress.
Washington lobbyist W. Samuel Patten pleaded guilty Friday to acting as an unregistered foreign lobbyist, and admitted to lying to the Senate Intelligence Committee and funneling a Ukrainian oligarch's money to Donald Trump's Presidential Inaugural Committee.
Patten's plea and cooperation agreement is connected to special counsel Robert Mueller's ongoing investigation into Russian interference in the election and coordination with the Trump campaign – even apparently reaching into former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort's inner circle in Ukraine.
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