On Aug. 3 of last year, just as the US presidential election was entering its final, heated phase, the Russian foreign ministry sent nearly $30,000 to its embassy in Washington. The wire transfer, which came from a Kremlin-backed Russian bank, landed in one of the embassy’s Citibank accounts and contained a remarkable memo line: “to finance election campaign of 2016.”

That wire transfer is one of more than 60 now being scrutinized by the FBI and other federal agencies investigating Russian involvement in the US election. The transactions, which moved through Citibank accounts and totaled more than $380,000, each came from the Russian foreign ministry and most contained a memo line referencing the financing of the 2016 election.

So for the first 6 months of his presidency, Facebook claimed there was no Russian influence. Then it was $5000, and after their latest testimony that number had reached over $100,000. With just $100K and an army of trolls and twitter bots to push their message, Facebook admitted those ads reached 126 Million Americans. Today we learn there was a new, much larger source of funding.