There was clearly pay-to-play pay-offs between Vladimir Putin and Hillary Clinton starting in 2010 when Hillary got Putin billions in donations from 29 U. S. corporations who helped Putin build the Russian equivalent of Silicon Valley in a suburb of Moscow called Skolkovo.

The Defense Department’s European Command put it this way: "Skolkovo is an ambitious enterprise, aiming to promote technology transfer generally, by inbound direct investment, and occasionally, through selected acquisitions. As such, Skolkovo is arguably an overt alternative to clandestine industrial espionage — with the additional distinction that it can achieve such a transfer on a much larger scale and more efficiently. Implicit in Russia’s development of Skolkovo is a critical question — a question that Russia may be asking itself — why bother spying on foreign companies and government laboratories if they will voluntarily hand over all the expertise Russia seeks?"