deripaska was also sanctioned by the u.s. government in response to the russian attack on the 2016 election, although thanks to the intervention and largesse of republican senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, oleg deripaska was recently relieved of much of the burden of those sanctions. that's one of the two guys to whom manafort owed millions of dollars when he took over the trump campaign. the other guy was this fellow. guy with the three-piece suit there in the nice red tie. his name is dmitry fertash. paul manafort was running the political operations of the party of regions in ukraine, fertash was funding that party. he is rich, almost beyond believe, specifically because vladimir putin made him so. one of the mother lode corruption stories of ukraine and russian foreign influence is for years kremlin insisted their guy in ukraine, dmitry firtash, would be given a cut of every cubeic inch of natural gas russa pumped through ukraine on its way to europe. ukraine is full of pipelines that start in the east and carry tow