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Trump Official Wilbur Ross Involved With Business Tied to Vladimir Putin(NEW YORK) — Newly leaked documents show that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, the Trump administration’s point man on trade and manufacturing policy, has a stake in a company that does business with a gas producer partly owned by the son-in-law of Russian President Vladimir Putin.According to records obtained by the International Consortium of Journalists, Ross is an investor in Navigator Holdings, a shipping giant that counts Russian gas and petrochemical producer Sibur among its major customers. Putin’s son-in-law Kirill Shamalov once owned more than 20 percent of the company, but now holds a much smaller stake.Commerce Department spokesman James Rockas said Ross “never met” Shamalov and has generally supported the Trump administration’s sanctions against Russia, according to the ICIJ report. Rockas added that Ross has withdrawn from matters related to transoceanic shipping vessels and has met the “highest ethical standards.”Read more at: http://time.com/5010762/wilbur-ross-putin-ties/
I've also heard that his best friend's half-brother's niece's cousin's aunt's maid-of-honor's daughter, is Facebook friends of Putin's sisters husband's nephew's roommate in college back in the 90's.
