Sam Patten admitted to using foreign money to buy Trump inaugural tickets, lied to Senate Intel Committee, and after his testimony deleted his entire Gmail archive folder. He's asking for probation.
April 9, 2019

The Trump Inauguration Swamp Festival investigation continues...

Sam Patten, a GOP lobbyist who straw-purchased inauguration tickets for a Ukranian oligarch, lied to the Senate Intel Committee about it, and then in a claim of "computer trouble" deleted his entire Gmail Archive folder containing a reported 200,000 emails.

As usual Natasha Bertrand has the story:

Oh he also tried to buy tickets to the National Prayer Breakfast, which in 2017 was FULL of Russians, remember?

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