Samuel Patten is an American political consultant, lobbyist and author.
10 Facts About Sam Patten
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Sam Patten received particular international attention in 2018 in relation to the Special Counsel investigation led by former FBI director Robert Mueller.
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Sam Patten ultimately took a plea deal and was sentenced for failing to register as a foreign agent with the Justice Department when he represented the Opposition Bloc, a Ukrainian political party, from 2014 through 2018.
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Sam Patten's father published a small-town weekly newspaper in Camden, Maine and became a prison minister.
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From 2001 to 2004 Sam Patten headed the Moscow office of the International Republican Institute; while there he worked with Konstantin Kilimnik, who later moved to Kyiv to work for Paul Manafort's consulting business in Ukraine.
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In 2014, Sam Patten reportedly was receiving $20,000 per month from Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Saleh al-Mutlaq and the Al-Arabiya Coalition, to support al-Mutlaq's run for prime minister.
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In 2014, Sam Patten was a senior consultant for SCL Group, the parent company of Cambridge Analytica, working at their Oregon office to help them fine-tune their models for the 2014 US mid-term elections.
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Sam Patten helped SCL Group with their work on the 2015 Nigeria elections, including allegedly hiring Israeli hackers to find kompromat on presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari.
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The prosecution against Sam Patten was an outgrowth of work by the Special Counsel investigation, which referred the matter to the US Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia and the Criminal Division of the Justice Department, which handled the prosecution.
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Sam Patten admitted that he lied to a Congressional committee about the inauguration donation and about his foreign lobbying work, and that he intentionally destroyed documents about that work.