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===Oleg Deripaska===
===Oleg Deripaska===
[[File:Download-2.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Vladimir Putin with Oleg Deripaska. Democrats colluded with Deripaska to interfere in the 2016 Presidential election.]]
[[File:Levinson.jpg|right|300px|thumb|On November 9, 2019, it was reported that Robert Levinson was still alive.<ref>https://www.dailywire.com/news/iran-makes-stunning-admission-regarding-fbi-agent-gone-missing-since-2007</ref>]]
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.
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.
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.
[[File:Download-2.jpg|left|350px|thumb|Vladimir Putin with Oleg Deripaska. Democrats colluded with Deripaska to interfere in the 2016 Presidential election.]]
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 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>https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/387625-mueller-may-have-a-conflict-and-it-leads-directly-to-a-russian-oligarch</ref>}}
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 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>https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/387625-mueller-may-have-a-conflict-and-it-leads-directly-to-a-russian-oligarch</ref>}}