Mueller Team Reportedly Looking Into Donations to Trump Inauguration With Foreign Connections

Special counsel Robert Mueller‘s team is reportedly looking into foreign-linked donations to President Trump‘s inauguration committee.

Per ABC News, investigators have been asking questions about donors “with connections to Russia, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar”:

According to a source who has sat with the Mueller team for interviews in recent weeks, the special counsel is examining donors who have either business or personal connections in Russia, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar. Several donors with those ties contributed large sums to the non-profit fundraising entity – gifts that topped out at $1 million dollars, according to public records.

Special counsel investigators have also asked witnesses about specific inauguration donors, including American businessmen Leonard Blavatnik, and Andrew Intrater, according to sources familiar with the Mueller sessions.

Intrater is a business associate of Viktor Vekselberg, the Russian oligarch in the news this week over his financial link to Michael Cohen, and both of them apparently attended the inauguration.

OpenSecrets has a rundown of some of the donations to the Trump inauguration, noting “the identities of some donors are a little less clear.”

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