In a ''Bloomberg'' interview Carter Page described himself as having advised the state-controlled natural gas giant Gazprom and helped it attract Western investors.<ref>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-30/trump-russia-adviser-carter-page-interview</ref> Julia Ioffe reported for ''Politico'' that Carter Page was a mid-level executive at Merrill Lynch in Moscow who played no role in any of the big deals he boasted about. Almost no one in Moscow remembered Carter Page. Until Trump read his name off a piece of paper handed to him during a March interview with the ''[[Washington Post]]'', almost no one in the Washington foreign policy world had heard of Carter Page either.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160924010026/http:/www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/09/the-mystery-of-trumps-man-in-moscow-214283]</ref>