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→Oleg Deripaska
===Oleg Deripaska===
===Oleg Deripaska===
In 2009, when Mueller ran the FBI,<ref>http://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/387625-mueller-may-have-a-conflict-and-it-leads-directly-to-a-russian-oligarch</ref> 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 circumvent U.S. sanctions law that barred spending money in Iran. 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 circumvent U.S. sanctions law that barred 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.
Deripaska ultimately spent $25 million assembling a private search and rescue team that worked with contacts in Iran connected with his aluminum business.
Deripaska ultimately spent $25 million assembling a private search and rescue team that worked with contacts in Iran connected with his aluminum business.
Deripaska is one of the first Russians the FBI asked for help when it began investigating the ''[[Steele dossier]]''.
Deripaska is one of the first Russians the FBI asked for help when it began investigating the ''[[Steele dossier]]''. The agents posited a theory that [[2016 Trump campaign|Trump's campaign]] was secretly colluding with Russia to hijack the U.S. election. {{Quotebox|"Deripaska laughed but realized, despite the joviality, that they were serious," said his agent [[Adam Waldman]]. "So he told them in his informed opinion the idea they were proposing was false. 'You are trying to create something out of nothing,' he told them."<ref>http://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/387625-mueller-may-have-a-conflict-and-it-leads-directly-to-a-russian-oligarch </ref>}}
Deripaska once hired [[Paul Manafort]] as a political adviser. Mueller’s indictment of Manafort makes no mention of Deripaska, even though prosecutors have evidence that Manafort contemplated inviting his old Russian client for a [[2016 Trump campaign]] briefing.
Deripaska once hired [[Paul Manafort]] as a political adviser. Mueller’s indictment of Manafort makes no mention of Deripaska, even though prosecutors have evidence that Manafort contemplated inviting his old Russian client for a 2016 Trump campaign briefing.
==See also==
==See also==