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Undated: Sir Leonard "Len" Blavatnik (born June 14, 1957) is a Soviet-born British-American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He made his fortune through business via diversified investments in myriad companies through his conglomerate company, Access Industries.
As of January 2018, Blavatnik was the wealthiest man in the United Kingdom, and the 50th wealthiest in the world, with a net worth of US$21.2 billion.[3] In 2017, Blavatnik received a knighthood for services to philanthropy.
In 2011, Blavatnik donated to both President Barack Obama and his GOP rival, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney.[30]
Blavatnik is a supporter of the US Republican Party, and in 2015-2016 donated a total of $7.35 million to six Republican political candidates, including South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, Florida Senator Marco Rubio and Arizona Senator John McCain.[31] In February 2016, Blavatnik donated over $1 million to an anti-Donald Trump GOP group.[32] He also donated $1 million to the committee for the inauguration of Donald Trump.[31] In August 2017, political scientist Bo Rothstein resigned from the Blavatnik School of Government out of opposition to Blavatnik's politics.[33]
Blavatnik and his American wife, Emily, also donated to Democratic Party candidates Kamala Harris, Chuck Schumer, Andrew Cuomo and Hillary Clinton.[34]
In 2017, after two senior Trump administration officials went on record as being lobbyists for Blavatnik’s Access Industries[35], Blavatnik was mentioned in investigations led by Special Counsel Robert Mueller into Russian donations to the administration.[36] Since April 2016 Blavatnik contributed $383,000 to the Republican National Committee and $1 million to Trump’s inauguration fund. However he did not give directly to the Trump campaign.[37]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Blavatnik
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October 6: Investor Len Blavatnik to Pay $656,000 to Settle FTC Charges That He Violated U.S. Premerger Notification Requirements
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2015/10/investor-len-blavatnik-pay-656000-settle-ftc-charges-he-violated
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November 26: U.S. v. Len Blavatnik c/o Access Industries
(Final judgement July 12, 2016)
https://www.justice.gov/atr/case/us-v-len-blavatnik-co-access-industries
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August 30: Blavatnik to give evidence in Netanyahu investigation
https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-blavatnik-to-give-evidence-in-netanyahu-investigation-1001203107
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October 4: Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists
The Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists recognize the country’s most promising faculty-rank researchers in Life Sciences, Physical Sciences & Engineering, and Chemistry.
https://provost.illinois.edu/awards/national-and-international-awards/fellowships-grants-2/blavatnik-awards-for-young-scientists/#sthash.Hmek46GI.dpbs
December 18: [Oleg] Deripaska’s US assets include a mansion at 11 E. 64th St. The uber-posh residence is just down the street from fellow Ukrainian-born oligarch Len Blavatnik’s mansion, which he bought for a record $90 million earlier this year.
https://nypost.com/2018/10/08/feds-freeze-russian-oligarchs-assets-upper-east-side-mansion/
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January 22: Major GOP donor Len Blavatnik had business ties to a Russian official
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/major-gop-donor-len-blavatnik-123030095.html
January 29: These are Mitch McConnell’s nefarious links to Putin, Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska and Russian companies
There always seems to be more to the story when it comes to Trump and Russia, and this time it involves Senate Leader Mitch McConnell.
Monday evening brought a new twist in that one of Mitch McConnell’s major donors, Len Blavatnik, who is tied to Vladimir Putin and all kinds of Russian oligarchs, benefited when Trump and McConnell lifted Russian sanctions on Sunday.
https://www.alternet.org/2019/01/these-are-mitch-mcconnells-nefarious-linked-to-putin-russian-oligarch-oleg-deripaska-and-russian-companies/
January 31: A Treasury Department official said that Secretary Steven Mnuchin sold his stake in RatPac-Dune Entertainment to a “third party unconnected” to Leonard Blavatnik, the Ukrainian-born billionaire and entertainment investor linked to a Russian company that was recently removed from the U.S. sanctions list.
The statement came in response to a letter sent by Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.), who is questioning whether Mnuchin had a conflict of interest because of his involvement in the decision to lift the sanctions.
She is unsatisfied with Mnuchin’s response to her initial query, and has fired off a new letter in which she suggests that he disclose who bought his stake in RatPac-Dune.
Speier and other lawmakers, who have tried to block the lifting of sanctions on Russian companies, have focused on Blavatnik and his ties to Russian oligarchs.
https://variety.com/2019/politics/news/mnuchn-ratpac-dune-jackie-speier-1203125377/
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