Wife of ex-NRA head tapped accused Russian agent to secure jet fuel deal: report
By Emily Birnbaum - 09/02/18 06:58 PM EDT The wife of David Keene, a former president of the National Rifle Association (NRA), tapped accused Russian agent Maria Butina to secure a jet fuel deal with Russia, according to hundreds of emails obtained by The New York Times.
Donna Keene, a Washington lobbyist, asked Butina and her boyfriend at the time, GOP operative Paul Erickson, to secure five million barrels of jet fuel in exchange for $1 million, the Times reported.
Keene reportedly connected Butina and Erickson with prospective buyers, including Israeli-American salesman Yoni Wiss.
"I knew they didn’t have any clue, because there’s no port in the world that could hold the amount of oil they were saying they could sell,†Wiss told the Times.
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