“roadshow meetings” with “representatives of major US banks and business circles,” which included “negotiations” and discussion of the “most promising 1160 business lines and sectors.” Foresman, the investment bank executive mentioned in Volume I, Sections IV.A.1 and IV.B.3, supra, told the Office that he met with Gorkov and VEB deputy chairman Nikolay Tsekhomsky in Moscow just before Gorkov left for 1161 New York to meet Kushner. According to Foresman, Gorkov and Tsekhomsky told him that they were traveling to New York to discuss post- election issues with U.S. financial institutions, that their trip was sanctioned by 1162 Putin, and that they would be reporting back to Putin upon their return. The investigation did not resolve the apparent conflict in the accounts of Kushner and Gorkov or determine whether the meeting was diplomatic in nature (as Kushner stated), focused on business (as VEB’s public statement indicated), or whether it involved some combination of those matters or other matters. Regardless, the investigation did not identify evidence that Kushner and Gorkov engaged in any substantive follow-up after the meeting. Rather, a few days after the meeting, Gorkov’s assistant texted Kushner’s assistant, “Hi, please inform your side that the information about the meeting 1163 had a very positive response!”’ Over the following weeks, the two 1164 assistants exchanged a handful of additional cordial texts. On February 8, 2017, Gorkov’s assistant texted Kushner’s assistant (Berkowitz) to try to set up another meeting, and followed up by text at least twice in the days that 1165 followed. According to Berkowitz, he did not respond to the meeting request in light of the press coverage regarding the Russia investigation, and did 1166 not tell Kushner about the meeting request. 5. Petr Aven’s Outreach Efforts to the Transition Team In December 2016, weeks after the one-on-one meeting with Putin described in Volume I, Section IV.B.1.b, supra, Petr Aven attended what he described as a separate “all-hands” oligarch meeting between Putin and Russia’s most 1167 prominent businessmen. As in Aven’s one-on-one meeting, a main topic of discussion at the oligarch meeting in December 2016 was the prospect of