519 markets. Grand Jury█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ 520 █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ The company otherwise had no sources of income, and Page was forced to draw down his life 521 savings to support himself and pursue his business venture. Page asked Yatsenko to work with him at GEC as a senior advisor on a contingency basis, Grand Jury█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ 522 █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ . In 2008, Page met Alexander Bulatov, a Russian government official who 523 worked at the Russian Consulate in New York. Page later learned that Bulatov was a Russian intelligence officer, Grand Jury█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ 524 █ █ █ . In 2013, Victor Podobnyy, another Russian intelligence officer working covertly in the United States under diplomatic cover, formed a relationship with 525 Page. Podobnyy met Page at an energy symposium in New York City and 526 began exchanging emails with him. Podobnyy and Page also met in person on multiple occasions, during which Page offered his outlook on the future of the energy industry and provided documents to Podobnyy about the energy 527 business. In a recorded conversation on April 8, 2013, Podobnyy told another intelligence officer that Page was interested in business opportunities in 528 Russia. In Podobnyy’s words, Page “got hooked on Gazprom thinking that if they have a project, he could . . . rise up. Maybe he can. . . . [I]t’s obvious that he 529 wants to earn lots of money.” Podobnyy said that he had led Page on by “feed[ing] him empty promises” that Podobnyy would use his Russian business 530 connections to help Page. Podobnyy told the other intelligence officer that his method of recruiting foreign sources was to promise them favors and then 531 discard them once he obtained relevant information from them. In 2015, Podobnyy and two other Russian intelligence officers were charged 532 with conspiracy to act as an unregistered agent of a foreign government. The criminal complaint detailed Podobnyy’s interactions with and conversations 533 about Page, who was identified only as “Male-1.” Based on the criminal