Yevgeniy Prigozhin: A Russian businessman known as “Putin’s chef” because he owned a catering business favored by the Russian president, Yevgeniy Prigozhin was accused by the special counsel’s office of funding the St. Petersburg troll farm called the Internet Research Agency and its elaborate social media campaign to influence Americans prior to the 2016 election. He was charged in February 2018 along with twelve other Russian nationals with conspiring to defraud the United States for the social media plot.
