{{quotebox-float|“at its height, Ye’s company, CEFC China Energy, aligned itself so closely with the Chinese government that it was often hard to distinguish between the two.”}}
===2017===
*'''19 January.''' Eric Ciaramella invites Ukrainian National Anti-Corruption Bureau [[NABU]] director [[Artem Sytnyk]] to the White House. [[Artem Sytnyk]] was convicted in December 2018 of interference in the U.S. presidential election along with [[Serhiy Leshchenko]] in a Ukrainian court. [[Stynyk]] and Leshchenko gave Chalupa and Ciaramella official documents critical of [[Paul Manafort]], leading to Manafort's resignation as Trump's campaign manager. Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska suing Manafort over a failed Ukrainian cable TV investment.
*'''20 January.''' Trump inaugurated.