Bombshell: Obama Admin Colluded with Russia on Sale of U.S. Uranium Mine? In 2009, the FBI knew all about a Russian bribery, extortion, and money laundering plot concocted at the highest levels of the Kremlin intended to give Vladimir Putin increased control of nuclear materials and access to U.S. nuclear materials. They knew it before two deals went through giving Putin what he wanted but the FBI and DoJ did not reveal the information to people involved in signing off on the deal. FBI involvement in this Russia scheme took place in 2009 before the Uranium One mine (and 20% of the U.S. uranium) was sold to Russia and before Russia’s state-owned Rosatom in 2010 was allowed to expand its sales of uranium inside the U.S. through its Tenex subsidiary.