1. Braidy Industries, Kentucky
1.1. Craig Brouchard, CEO of Braidy
1.2. As the Senate debated removing the sanctions on Deripaska's Rusal Company, Bouchard had dinner with Rusal representatives
1.3. Plant not built as of May '10, Brouchard ousted, legal issues
2. McConnell led fight to remove sanctions on Deripaska's companies including Rusal, sanctions applied for, amongst other things, Russian meddling in the election
2.1. The effort to lift sanctions was led by Lord Gregory Barker, the new British chief executive of EN+, and included former senator David Vitter of Louisiana, now a lobbyist at Mercury Public Affairs, according to public lobbying records. Vitter and Mercury warned that failure to lift Rusal sanctions would "open the Trump administration up to criticism for harming U.S. manufacturers and consumers," according to lobbying records. Vitter was spotted in McConnell's office days before the vote.
2.1.1. Vitter lobbied for EN+ Group, Rusal's parent company
2.2. In regards to voting to lift sanctions, McConnell said he did it for Trump not his state: "It was completely unrelated to anything that might happen in my home state," McConnell told reporters at the Capitol in May. "A number of us supported the administration. . . . And that's - that was how I voted - the reason I vote the way I did."
2.3. Baker and Dunn, former McConnell staffers, lobbied against sanctions for Braidy
3. Senate Leadership Fund, controlled by McConnell
3.1. Aldeson's gave 50 mil '17/'18
4. Oleg Deripaska, Russian Oligarch
4.1. Rusal Aluminum-- owned by Deripaska and Blavatnik (20%)
4.1.1. Invested 200 million in Braidy Industries, a Kentucky Company, days after the sanctions on Deripaska's Rusal were lifted
4.2. Paul Manafort, Trumps '16 Campaign Manager, owed Deripaska and hoped that role with Trump would make him "whole". He gave campaign info/updates throughout campaign to Deripaska
4.3. "A U.S. diplomatic cable from 2006, published by WikiLeaks, referred to Deripaska - who founded Rusal and had financial ties to Paul Manafort, Donald Trump's now-jailed former campaign chairman- as "among the 2-3 oligarchs Putin turns to on a regular basis."
5. Len Blavatnik, Russian Oligarch
5.1. One of the biggest donors to McConnell, mostly through his companies
5.2. US Companies include Access Industries Inc. and AI-Altep Holdings Inc.
5.3. Blavatnik’s Access Industries made many of its billions from Putin’s decisions about its Russian oil partnership.
5.4. Viktor Vekselberg is a business partner with Blavatnik
5.4.1. Vekselberg entangled with Micahel Cohen through Columbus Nova
5.4.2. Vekselberg meets with Putin regularly as part of Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs
5.4.3. Vekselberg owns Renova
5.5. Steven Mnuchin is a long-time business partern with Blavatnik
5.5.1. Speier said she wants to learn more about Mnuchin’s involvement with Leonid Blavatnik, a Ukrainian-born billionaire with whom he co-owned a Hollywood film company up until 2017. Mnuchin had to divest from RatPac-Dune Entertainment as part of his confirmation process and disclosed the sale of his shares, but the exact prices and purchasers are unknown. However, the Hollywood Reporter reported that Mnuchin sold the shares to Blavatnik for approximately $25 million.