Can you imagine being swallowed up in the legal hurricane of Russiagate with President Trump and Special Counsel Robert Mueller? My guest, Sam Patten, was and is here to give us front row seats of the nightmare he endured with his conviction. Sam's book, Dangerous Company: Misadventures of a "Foreign Agent" is a memoir that reads like a thriller. Sam has had his hand in historical events without the glare of the spotlight until the Mueller Investigation of President Trump. He worked for Senators William Cohen, Susan Collins, and Olympia Snowe. He ran the Presidential Campaign for George W Bush in Maine. Then he left US politics to spread democracy abroad. He became an advisor to political leaders in Iraq, Ukraine, the Congo, Nigeria, and Mexico. He was also working in Russia during the early years of Vladimir Putin. When Washington went on the hunt for anyone who could have helped the Russians elect Donald Trump as president, Patten was a "usual suspect." He was working with Paul Manafort in Ukraine before Manafort took over Trump's Campaign. Robert Mueller eventually convicted Patten for failing to register as a foreign agent under a seldom used 1938 statute.

It is fascinating to hear the behind the scenes drama of how his nightmare started with the FBI and how it continued as the FBI attempted to squeeze every ounce of information out of him. All the while, the national media are opining daily with the intense real time drama. Sam is getting geared up for a second wind with his book Dangerous Company: Misadventures of a "Foreign Agent" https://a.co/d/3w5mslz. Sam writes a thought provoking column about current events for the Maine Wire.