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Tenet Media’s Lauren Chen is back—even though the illegal-influence and money-laundering investigation remains open.

RIGHT-WING MEDIA PERSONALITY Lauren Chen left the United States in July in disgrace. Her Tenet Media YouTube channel, which positioned itself as a sort of MAGA supergroup bringing together such popular commentators as Tim Pool, Benny Johnson, and Dave Rubin, had been exposed in 2024 by the FBI as a Russian media front illicitly taking money from pro-Putin propaganda outlet RT.

The September 2024 indictment from the Southern District of New York targeted Tenet’s FARA-skirting Russian funders, not Chen or her husband, Liam Donovan. But the Canadian couple were clearly described in the indictment as allegedly scheming with RT employees to direct $10 million to Tenet and even create a fictional persona to mislead one pundit about the source of the funding.

But this holiday season, Chen and her husband were back in Nashville, where she lived while running Tenet. She broke the news herself, by announcing on Instagram and X on Christmas Day that she could now return to the United States, and specifically thanking the State Department’s Joe Rittenhouse, a senior adviser on consular affairs and former Trump presidential campaign worker, for his help.

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[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 43 points 6 days ago
[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 33 points 6 days ago (1 children)

"specifically thanking the State Department’s Joe Rittenhouse, a senior adviser on consular affairs and former Trump presidential campaign worker, for his help."

[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Rittenhouse? As in the shooter Rittenhouse?

[–] Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works 17 points 6 days ago

murderer Rittenhouse

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 8 points 6 days ago

Kyle Rittenhouse is that one. Just a coincidence, afaik

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 23 points 6 days ago

All the news of Trump selling golden visas to get American residency - people are surprised when the worse humans take him up on it?

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago

Yeah, but I've been told by the scolding liberals/leftists, along with of course the radical right wing and the "centrists", that the Russian thing is a "hoax" and that no one should talk about it, lest they be engaging in "fake news".