The Week
January 17, 2018
The team working with Special Counsel Robert Mueller to investigate Russia’s influence over the 2016 election is reportedly inspecting “suspicious” transactions involving Russian diplomatic personnel, BuzzFeed News writes. Among the transactions flagged by the Russian embassy’s bank and reported, as is legally required, to the U.S. Treasury’s financial crimes unit is a payment of $120,000 to then-Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak just days after the presidential election and an attempt to withdraw $150,000 from the embassy’s account less than a week after President Trump’s inauguration.