In 2010 and 2011, former President Barack Obama's administration made two significant deals that aided Russia's nuclear ambitions.

However, Russian nuclear officials were actively involved in a racketeering scheme with an American uranium trucking company, resulting in kickbacks to Russian officials. During that same time period, money was routed from Russia to former President Bill Clinton's foundation — while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state.

The FBI had evidence of all this in 2009 — before Obama made the nuclear deals with Russia, according to a report released Tuesday by The Hill.

The deals with Russia

In October 2010, the State Department and the Committee on Foreign Investment (which Hillary Clinton served on) approved the partial sale of Uranium One, a Canadian mining company, to Russian nuclear company Rosatom, which resulted in Moscow controlling more than 20 percent of America's uranium supply.

In 2011, the Obama administration approved a subsidiary of Rosatom to sell uranium to U.S. nuclear power plants. Before, the subsidiary could only sell reprocessed uranium from dismantled Soviet nuclear weapons.

What the FBI knew in 2009

"The Russians were compromising American contractors in the nuclear industry with kickbacks and extortion threats, all of which raised legitimate national security concerns," a person who worked on the case told The Hill. "And none of that evidence got aired before the Obama administration made those decisions."

Vadim Mikerin, the primary Russian overseeing President Vladimir Putin's nuclear expansion in the U.S., "did knowingly and willfully combine, conspire confederate and agree with other persons ... to obstruct, delay and affect commerce and the movement of an article and commodity (enriched uranium) in commerce by extortion."

Mikerin, who was a director of Rosatom with oversight of the company's nuclear collaboration with the U.S., supervised a racketeering scheme involving extortion, bribery, money laundering and kickbacks at the direction of and benefit to senior Russian officials.

Mikerin would offer no-bid contracts to U.S. businesses in exchange for kickbacks in the form of payments to offshore bank accounts, then sharing proceeds with other co-conspirators in Russia and elsewhere.

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