July 19, 2017 VIA ELECTRONIC TRANSMISSION Mr. Paul Manafort c/o Reginald Brown Wilmer Hale 1875 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20006 Dear Mr. Manafort: We are writing to confirm that adequate steps are being taken to preserve records, and with a request for documents regarding any attempts or interest in obtaining information about presidential candidate Hillary Clinton from Russian government and affiliated sources, including reports of a June 2016 meeting between Donald Trump, Jr., Jared Kushner, Natalia Veselnitskaya, and you. We expect that you have already taken care to preserve relevant documents 1 in light of investigations into Russian interference being conducted by Congress and federal law enforcement and counterintelligence agencies. We ask that you confirm by August 2, 2017, that this has been done, and describe the scope of documents that are being preserved. If this has not yet been done, we ask that you immediately take steps to preserve all relevant documents in your possession, custody, or control related to Russian interference in the 2016 election, including documents related to your or the Trump campaign’s 2 contacts with: Russian government officials, associates, or representatives; any individuals who purported to act or whom were believed to be acting on behalf of Russian government officials, associates, or representatives; anyone who might have been involved in or in receipt of information obtained as a result of Russia’s influence campaign. We also ask that you begin producing the following documents to the Committee no later than August 2, 2017: 1 “Documents” include any written, recorded, or graphic material of any kind, including letters, memoranda, reports, notes, electronic data (emails, email attachments, and any other electronically-created or stored information), calendar entries, inter-office communications, meeting minutes, phone/voice mail or recordings/records of verbal communications, and drafts (whether or not they resulted in final documents). 2 “Trump campaign” means Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. and any related Trump campaign entities and all of its present and former directors, officers, employees, agents, consultants, advisors, associates, or other persons acting for or on behalf of them. Mr. Manafort July 19, 2017 Page 2 of 3 1. all documents related to the June 9, 2016 meeting or any other meeting, or effort to arrange a meeting with Natalia Veselnitskaya or Rinat Akhmetshin, including all documents provided during the meeting and all documents relating to scheduling, what happened during the meeting(s), and any related actions taken after the meeting(s); 2. all documents, including all communications to, from, or copied to you relating to Rob Goldstone, Emin Agalarov, Aras Agalarov, Natalia Veselnitskaya, Rinat Akhmetshin, Anatoli Samochornov, Irakly (Ike) Kaveladze, Christopher Steele, Aleksej Gubarev, Webzilla B.V., XBT Holdings S.A., Alfa Group, Dmitry Peskov, Vladimir Putin, the Ritz Carlton Moscow Hotel, Paul Manafort, Carter Page, Igor Sechin, Sergei Ivanov, Igor Divyekin, Sergei Millian, Dmitry Medvedev, Michael Flynn, Jill Stein, Michael Cohen, Konstantin Kosachev, Viktor Yanukovych, Corey Lewandowski, Sergei Kislyak, Yuri Ushakov, Anton Vaino, Mikhail Kalugin, Andrei Bondarev, Mikhail Fridman, Petr Aven, German Khan, Oleg Govorun, Sergey Lavrov, Rosneft, Sergei Kiriyenko, Oleg Solodukhin. This shall include any documents referring to any of the aforementioned using alternate spellings, pseudonyms, nicknames, abbreviations, or codes; 3. all documents relating to any attempts or actions taken by you or the Trump campaign to obtain information during the 2016 presidential campaign about Hillary Clinton from: Russian government officials, associates, or representatives; any individuals who purported to act or whom were believed to be acting on behalf of Russian government officials, associates, or representatives; or anyone who might have been involved in or in receipt of information obtained as a result of Russia’ s influence campaign; 4. all documents relating to any attempts or actions taken by you or the Trump campaign to coordinate, encourage, gain, release, or otherwise use information related to Russia’s influence campaign aimed at the US 2016 presidential election; 5. all documents relating to your registration under the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA), including any communications with the Department of Justice. Mr. Manafort July 19, 2017 Page 3 of 3 We appreciate your prompt attention to this important matter. If you have any questions, please contact Patrick Davis of Chairman Grassley’s staff at (202) 224-5225 or Heather Sawyer of Ranking Member Feinstein’s staff at (202) 224-7703. Sincerely, Charles E. Grassley Chairman Committee on the Judiciary Dianne Feinstein Ranking Member Committee on the Judiciary Lindsey O. Graham Chairman Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism Committee on the Judiciary Sheldon Whitehouse Ranking Member Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism Committee on the Judiciary