Two veteran Republican campaign operatives, including one who got a pardon from then-President Donald Trump one month before he left office, are charged in a new federal indictment with funneling $25,000 from a Russian national into the Trump campaign in 2016.
The grand jury indictment alleges that Benton and Wead worked together to accept $100,000 from an unidentified Russian national in order to get the foreigner a meeting with then-candidate Trump at a fundraiser in Philadelphia on Sept. 22, 2016.
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