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“One could very much read this language in legalese and not feel at all convinced that Russian interests do not have leverage over the president,” said Michael Knoll, Theodore K. Warner Professor of Law and Professor of Real Estate at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

For example, the letter doesn’t define several key terms. “Are they being technical with the language, or are they being straightforward with us?” Knoll asked. “I guess the assumption should be that they’re being technical. What it means by Russian person or entity does not seem that it excludes basically shell non-Russian entities.”