Trump Campaign Official With Ties To Russia Asked To Submit To Interview, Hand Over Documents
Trump campaign official with ties to Russia just got the attention of Congressional investigation.
The House Intelligence Committee has asked a Trump campaign official with ties to Russia to submit to an interview with the committee and hand over any documents relevant to the investigation.
According to a new report by the New York Times, “Michael Caputo, who served as a communications adviser to the Trump campaign, has been asked by the House committee investigating Russian election meddling to submit to a voluntary interview and to provide any documents he may have that are related to the inquiry.”
The report notes that the House Intel Committee made the request to Caputo in a May 9 letter.
Caputo spent six months working on the Trump campaign team as a communications adviser. During the 1990s Caputo worked in Russia and has connections to Kremlin officials, the New York Times report notes.
Caputo is also connected to Vladamir Putin through work he died for Gazprom Media in the early 2000s, according to the New York Times.
“Mr. Caputo is the latest in a string of Trump campaign officials who have been approached by the committee. He is a protégé of Roger J. Stone Jr., one of President Trump’s longest-serving advisers and one of the people who has been a focus of investigators’ interest,” according to the report.
The New York Times obtained a copy of the Congressional letter that asks Caputo to “produce documents and other materials to the committee and participate in a voluntary transcribed interview at the committee’s offices.”
The letter goes on to ask for “any documents, records, electronically stored information including email, communication, recordings, data and tangible things” that could “reasonably lead to the discovery of any facts within the investigation’s publicly announced parameters.”
