Manafort associate Samuel Patten has signed a plea agreement on FARA violation,

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2. The guy is "Samuel Patten" (with an "e") . Found the story!

Man linked to co-defendant of ex-Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort charged with violating foreign agent registration law

An associate of a Russian co-defendant of ex-Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort was charged Friday with failing to register with the federal goverment as an agent of foreign interest.

The associate, 47-year-old W. Samuel Patten of Washington, D.C., is due to appear in court Friday morning in federal court in Washington.

He was charged in a criminal information filed by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington, and the Justice Department's National Security Division. The charges relate to lobbying and consulting work that Patten has done since 2014 with an unidentified Russian national for a Ukraine political party known as Opposition Bloc, among other activities.

He also allegedly advised an unnamed Russian oligarch, and received payments of more than $1 million to a company he formed from that oligarch to a bank account in Cyprus, according to the criminal information. The informations says that Patten set up meetings for the oligarch with members of Congress and their staffs on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Committee on Foreign Affairs in 2015.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/31/feds-charge-man-who-worked-with-russian-co-defendant-of-paul-manafort.html