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"..Connection to the Trump campaign
Through numerous regular email exchanges,
Kilimnik conferred with Manafort after Manafort became Donald Trump's campaign manager in April 2016 and requested that Manafort give "private briefings" about the Trump campaign to Oleg Deripaska, a Russian billionaire and close ally to
Vladimir Putin. On 2 August 2016, Kilimnik met with Manafort and
Rick Gates at the
Grand Havana Room at
666 Fifth Avenue. The encounter which, according to prosecutor
Andrew Weissmann goes “very much to the heart of what the special counsel’s office is investigating,” included a handoff by Manafort of internal polling data from Trump's presidential campaign to Kilimnik. Gates later testified the three left the premises separately, each using different exits.
According to Mueller's court filings, Kilimnik was still working with Russian intelligence when, during September and October 2016, he was known to be communicating with the
Trump campaign. Both Rick Gates and Paul Manafort were in contact with him at the time.
...
In a 2018 classified State Department assessment, Ukraine's former Prosecutor General
Yuri Lutsenko allowed Kilimnik to escape from Ukraine to Russia after the US federal grand jury charged Kilimnik with
obstruction of justice. The New York Times reported on 31 August 2018 that an unnamed Russian political operative and a Ukrainian businessman had illegally purchased four tickets to the
inauguration of Donald Trump on behalf of Kilimnik. The tickets, valued at $50,000, were purchased with funds that had flowed through a Cypriot bank account.
The transaction was facilitated by Sam Patten, an American lobbyist who had related work with Paul Manafort and pleaded guilty to failing to register as a foreign agent. Kilimnik attended Trump's inauguration.
In January 2019, Manafort's lawyers submitted a filing to the court, in response to the Special Counsel's accusation that he had lied to investigators while supposedly co-operating with them. Through an error in redacting, the document accidentally revealed that while he was campaign chairman, Manafort met with Kilimnik, gave him polling data related to the 2016 campaign, and discussed a Ukrainian peace plan with him. ... Manafort asked Kilimnik to pass the data to Ukrainians
Serhiy Lyovochkin and
Rinat Akhmetov. Manafort also asked Kilimnik to pass polling data to
Oleg Deripaska who is close to Putin.
Kilimnik, Andrii Derkach, who is a member of the
Russian intelligence community and very close to
Rudy Giuliani, and
Andrii Telizhenko, who is part of "Derkach's inner circle"
and a close associate of Rudy Giuliani, supported Michael Caputo, who was producer, and Sergey Petrushin, who is a Russian co-producer that lives in Miami and a close associate of Caputo for over 25 years, making the documentary film The Ukraine Hoax: Impeachment, Biden Cash, and Mass Murder with guest host Michael Caputo which aired on the OANN on 21 January 2020 only two weeks before the Senate's acquittal of Donald Trump after his first impeachment trial."