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Mitch McConnell Gets His Russia Payoff As Oligarch Invests $200 Million In Kentucky

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Mon, Apr 15th, 2019

Oligarch Oleg Deripaska, whose company was recently granted sanctions relief by Trump and Mitch McConnell is now planning to invest $200 million in McConnell’s home state of Kentucky.

After Trump Admin Lifts Sanctions On Deripaska’s Companies the Russian Oligarch Sues the US Over Sanctions

Featured News, Russia Scandal
Fri, Mar 15th, 2019

He is of interest to Mueller because of his ties to the Kremlin and his decade-long relationship with Paul Manafort, the one-time campaign chairman for U.S. President Donald Trump, who this month was sentenced to a total of seven and a half years in prison in two criminal cases brought by Mueller’s team.