Mikhail Lesin (right)

Buzzfeed reports that there’s another “Steele Dossier” floating around Washington. But this one isn’t obviously about Donald Trump’s Moscow antics. Instead, it’s a death that was officially an accident, but less officially could be a murder committed by Russian agents at a hotel in the United States.

Mikhail Lesin was one of Vladmir Putin’s top propaganda experts and an oligarch of Russian media. In addition to running Russia’s state-owned television, he was in charge of censoring independent outlets and created the advertising for Putin and other Russian campaigns. For a decade, he was one of Putin’s closest advisers, and like most Putin allies, it paid well—well enough for Lesin to buy no fewer than five multi-million dollar homes around Los Angeles, including a sprawling 13,000 foot Beverly Hills mansion currently priced at $29 million.

In December 2014, Lesin resigned his position with Gazprom-Media and moved full time to the United States. A year later, the Russian media mogul was found dead in his room at the Dupont Circle Hotel in Washington, D.C.

Initial reports suggested that Lesin had died of a heart attack, but officers on the scene reported that Putin’s former propaganda expert showed signs of

"blunt force injuries of the neck, torso, upper extremities and lower extremities."

An investigation returned what seems to be an unusual cause of death.

After an 11-month investigation, a federal prosecutor announced in late 2016 that Lesin died alone in his room due to a series of drunken falls “after days of excessive consumption of alcohol.” His death was ruled an “accident,” with the coroner adding acute alcohol intoxication as a contributing cause of death, and prosecutors closed the case.

But that is not what former intelligence officer Christopher Steele, or others, have found.