43 Facts About Michael Caputo

Michael Raymon Caputo was born on March 24,1962 and is an American political strategist and lobbyist.

Michael Caputo moved to Russia in 1994, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and was an adviser to Boris Yeltsin.

Michael Caputo worked for Gazprom Media in 2000 where he worked on improving the image of Vladimir Putin in the US Michael Caputo moved back to the US and founded a public relations company, and then moved to Ukraine to work on a candidate's campaign for parliament.

Michael Caputo was campaign manager for Carl Paladino's failed 2010 bid for Governor of New York.

Michael Caputo worked for the Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign from November 2015 to June 2016, and was in charge of communications for New York.

Michael Caputo left the campaign after publicly supporting the removal of campaign manager Corey Lewandowski.

Michael Caputo was investigated by the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence as part of its investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election.

On September 14,2020, Michael Caputo posted a Facebook video in which he claimed that "there are hit squads being trained all over this country" to mount armed opposition to a second term for President Trump.

Michael Caputo was born in 1962 in Buffalo, New York, where he spent the bulk of his early years in the region known as the Southtowns.

Michael Caputo was employed by Republican politicians such as Congressman Jack Kemp.

Michael Caputo learned from Stone that political campaigns could be turned into wins for candidates if the public found them entertaining.

Michael Caputo worked with Oliver North to foment propaganda as part of Reagan's public relations efforts in South America and in Central America.

Michael Caputo served as an adviser to Boris Yeltsin in 1995.

Michael Caputo was employed by a Moscow-headquartered subsidiary of Gazprom, Gazprom-Media.

Michael Caputo was contracted by Gazprom in 2000 to work for Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

Michael Caputo's task was to increase Putin's public relations standing, specifically his support level in the US During his residence in Russia, he became a business partner and close friend of Sergey Petrushin on or about 1997.

Michael Caputo moved back from Russia to the US late in 2000.

Michael Caputo moved back to Europe in 2007 while advising a politician's campaign for parliament in the 2007 Ukrainian parliamentary election.

Michael Caputo worked as the campaign manager for real estate businessman Carl Paladino's unsuccessful campaign in the 2010 election for governor of New York state.

Michael Caputo knows that each of us comes to the campaign with warts.

Michael Caputo established a shell organization named "12th Man Thunder" and hired a proxy leader, amputee Chuck Sonntag, whom Trump and Michael Caputo calculated would garner sympathy.

Michael Caputo had staff located in Miami Beach, Florida, and Moscow, Russia.

Michael Caputo was a senior adviser to Trump's political efforts from November 2015 to June 2016.

Michael Caputo had tweeted in support of Lewandowski's leaving; in his resignation letter to Manafort said he regretted the statement on Twitter.

In early 2020, Michael Caputo posted multiple offensive and racist tweets about Chinese people; he deleted almost all of his past tweets before assuming a position at HHS.

In early 2020 during President Trump's impeachment, Michael Caputo wrote a book called The Ukraine Hoax: How Decades of Corruption in the Former Soviet Republic Led to Trump's Phony Impeachment.

Michael Caputo produced and hosted a documentary by the same name which was aired on the pro-Trump television channel One America News.

Michael Caputo personally confirmed the report, saying that his attempts to influence the content of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the CDC's weekly report of information and recommendations regarding public health, had been going on for.

Michael Caputo said it was because the MMWR reporting contained "political content" as well as scientific information, adding that the changes suggested by his office were "infrequently" accepted by CDC.

Michael Caputo appointed Canadian epidemiologist Dr Paul Alexander as scientific advisor.

Michael Caputo tried to prevent CDC scientists from writing or saying that COVID-19 could be transmitted by children, which he said had "zero" data to support it, and would undermine Trump's goal of having children return to school.

Michael Caputo was the key figure in a planned HHS advertising campaign, funded with $300 million requisitioned from the CDC, which aimed to "defeat despair" about COVID-19 by airing video interviews between administration officials and celebrities.

Also, the company hired to film the interviews, which is headed by a business associate of Michael Caputo's, had no experience with public health campaigns and struggled with the amount of work required to produce the videos.

Michael Caputo added that left-wing "hit squads being trained all over this country" were preparing an armed insurrection after the 2020 presidential election, advising his listeners to "buy ammunition".

Michael Caputo claimed that the shooting of a right wing protester in Portland had been "a drill".

Two days after Alexander was ousted and Michael Caputo went on leave, the CDC reversed its much-criticized statement saying that asymptomatic people who have been in close contact with a person infected with the coronavirus did not need to receive COVID-19 testing; the statement had been forced through at the direction of HHS leadership and the White House over the objections of scientists and without going through the usual CDC scientific review process.

The House Intelligence Committee requested Michael Caputo come in and be interviewed voluntarily and submit to the committee relevant documents associated with its investigation.

Michael Caputo worked with the House Intelligence Committee to respond to queries.

Michael Caputo later denied contact with Russian officials or having discussed Russia with Trump or with other campaign aides.

Michael Caputo said in June 2017 that it was not until prosecutors informed him that Greenberg was Russian that he learned the man he had spoken with in 2016 was not a US citizen.

Michael Caputo hired attorney Dennis Vacco to represent him during the investigation, and subsequently stated that he had liquidated his children's college funds to pay Vacco.

Michael Caputo became a Catholic in 2000, later saying this religious change helped him find peace.

On September 24,2020, a spokesman for Michael Caputo's family announced that he had been diagnosed with metastatic head and neck cancer which originated in his throat.