And he was in the Epstein files, allegedly meeting with Russian officials repeatedly at Epstein’s place. One of which is a handler for assets of their intelligence service.

We should not be doing business with people mentioned that many times in the files.

Why? Because he was convicted and punished for a crime many years ago?

Should we never do business with anyone who was convicted of a crime?

What crime was he convicted of? Surely that has some bearing?

"a crime"