{"id":1237150,"date":"2022-01-24T22:37:06","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T03:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1237150"},"modified":"2022-01-24T22:37:11","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T03:37:11","slug":"report-chuck-schumer-receives-campaign-donations-from-russian-pipeline-linked-affiliates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-chuck-schumer-receives-campaign-donations-from-russian-pipeline-linked-affiliates\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Chuck Schumer Receives Campaign Donations from Russian Pipeline-Linked Affiliates"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freport-chuck-schumer-receives-campaign-donations-from-russian-pipeline-linked-affiliates%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1237150&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/CS-AP20031619383027-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who helped block sanctions on&nbsp;Russia\u2019s Nord Stream 2 project, received campaign donations from corporate PACs affiliated with&nbsp;two of the European companies that helped fund the pipeline, according to a report from the Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fresh-ad-1\">The corporate political action committees of&nbsp;ENGIE North America and BASF Corporation, two&nbsp;affiliates&nbsp;of European companies that are associated with the funding for&nbsp;Russia\u2019s Nord Stream 2 pipeline, gave $2,500 campaign contributions to Schumer\u2019s campaign in September, according to records with the&nbsp;Federal Election Commission (FEC), the <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/companies-linked-to-putins-pipeline-contributed-to-schumer-campaign\/\">report<\/a> stated.<\/div>\n<p>Reportedly, the parent company for&nbsp;ENGIE North America and a&nbsp;subsidiary for BASF are part of the group of five businesses that financed the&nbsp;Nord Stream 2 pipeline to&nbsp;transport natural gas from Russia to Germany.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Free Beacon wrote:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The contributions to Schumer came amid an aggressive lobbying effort in Washington over sanctions on the 764-mile pipeline. The five European companies that back Nord Stream 2\u2014Wintershall, ENGIE, Uniper, Shell, and OMV\u2014have paid millions of dollars to lobbying firms to block sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>Nord Stream 2 AG, the Swiss company that is building the pipeline, lobbies Congress through Democratic donor Vincent Roberti. Roberti <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fec.gov\/data\/receipts\/?data_type=processed&amp;committee_id=C00346312&amp;contributor_name=roberti%2C+vincent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gave<\/a> maximum donations of $5,800 to Schumer and other Senate Democrats last year, <em>Axios<\/em>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/nord-stream-2-lobbyist-donations-schumer-e44b83bf-31da-4d3d-85c8-8d33b3e69f27.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>. Thomas McLarty, the founder of McLarty Inbound, a firm that lobbies for the five European companies, in April&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docquery.fec.gov\/cgi-bin\/fecimg\/?202107159451620741\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gave<\/a> $2,500 to Schumer.<\/p>\n<p>ENGIE North America, a subsidiary of the French firm ENGIE, <a href=\"https:\/\/docquery.fec.gov\/pdf\/571\/202201179475007571\/202201179475007571.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contributed<\/a> to Schumer\u2019s campaign on Sept. 9. BASF, the parent company of Wintershall, <a href=\"https:\/\/docquery.fec.gov\/cgi-bin\/fecimg\/?202110159467893115\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">donated<\/a> to Schumer on Sept. 22. ENGIE also contributed to Schumer\u2019s campaign in 2020, while BASF gave to the Senate leader in 2016, according to FEC records. Each member of the European consortium loaned 1 billion euros to Nord Stream 2 AG in 2017. Nord Stream 2 AG is controlled by Russian state oil company Gazprom. Nord Stream 2 AG\u2019s chief executive officer, Matthias Warnig, is a Putin ally and former officer of the East German secret police.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>All of this occurred as Schumer reportedly blocked requests from Senate Republicans for legislation to enforce sanctions on the&nbsp;Russian pipeline project after&nbsp;President Joe Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-05-25\/biden-says-he-waived-nord-stream-sanctions-because-it-s-finished\">waived<\/a> sanctions last year. At the time, Biden said that the pipeline was almost complete and imposing sanctions would be \u201ccounter-productive\u201d for European relations.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/14\/democrats-use-dreaded-filibuster-to-block-ted-cruz-bill-sanctioning-russias-pipeline\/\">attempted<\/a> to pass legislation earlier this month but failed after Senate Democrats used the filibuster, which they are busy trying to eliminate, to block his legislation. The bill only had 55 votes, short of the&nbsp;filibuster\u2019s&nbsp;required 60 votes to end debate and move to a final vote.<\/p>\n<p>The Free Beacon noted that neither Schumer\u2019s office nor&nbsp;ENGIE North America&nbsp;returned a comment request. But a spokesman for&nbsp;BASF illuded that its&nbsp;American subsidiary does not lobby members of Congress on the&nbsp;Nord Stream 2 and that Wintershall does not have a presence in the U.S.&nbsp;\u201cAny implied connection between our Employee PAC contributions and Nord Stream 2 is incorrect,\u201d the spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p><i>Jacob Bliss is a reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow him on <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jacobmbliss\"><i>Twitter<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who helped block sanctions on\u00a0Russia\u2019s Nord Stream 2 project, received campaign donations from corporate PACs affiliated with\u00a0two of the European companies that helped fund &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1237150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1237150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1237150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1237150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1237150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}