Max Paul Friedman is a professor of history at American University and a visiting fellow at the U.S. Studies Centre at the University of Sydney. He’s the author of Nazis and Good Neighbors (Cambridge University Press).
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large group of other Russian guests.
The 89-year-old law's mens rea challenge could also unravel other state statutes, from traffic offenses to hunting rules, if the company's argument succeeds.