Emails chronicle effort to secure investment, create U.S. bank account for Russian oligarch.

Updated: August 19, 2024 - 2:16pm

A few months before Russian oligarch Elena Baturina wired $3.5 million in February 2014 to a Hunter Biden-linked firm, his business associates scrambled to secure U.S. bank approval because she was on a federal government "watch list" for financial transactions, according to never-before-revealed emails and documents.