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===Oleg Deripaska===
===Oleg Deripaska===
In 2009, when Mueller ran the FBI, the bureau asked Russian oligarch [[Oleg Deripaska]] to spend millions of his own dollars funding an FBI-supervised operation to rescue a retired FBI agent, Robert Levinson, captured in Iran while working for the CIA in 2007. They arrangement may have also violated the Antideficiency Act, which prohibits the government from accepting voluntary services.
In 2009, when Mueller ran the FBI, the bureau asked Russian oligarch [[Oleg Deripaska]] to spend millions of his own dollars funding an FBI-supervised operation to rescue a retired FBI agent, Robert Levinson, captured in Iran while working for the CIA in 2007. Mueller wanted a foreigner to fund the operation in order to o circumvent U.S. sanctions law barring spending money in Iran. They arrangement may have also violated the Antideficiency Act, which prohibits the government from accepting voluntary services.
One agent who helped court Deripaska was Andrew McCabe.
One agent who helped court Deripaska was Andrew McCabe.