Kazakh oligarch Aliyev allegedly leveraged U.S. congressional contacts and a former ambassador’s diplomatic cables to seek U.S. intervention in a $...

The passage identifies a network of high‑level U.S. officials (former ambassador Richard E. Hoagland, Rep. Darrell Issa, Rep. Howard L. Berman, Rep. Nick Rahall’s sister) who were approached by a conv Aliyev, a convicted Kazakh former tax‑police chief, hired RJI Government Strategies, whose consultan RJI sent a letter to Rep. Issa urging him to raise concerns about seized oil‑company assets belong