California Watch Questions Gavin Newsom's $400 Pen

California Watch reporter Kyle Finck, with some help from colleague Lance Williams, asks a very good question in his item headline today. Namely, “Why Did a Russian Billionaire Give Newsom a $400 Pen?

The deluxe Louis Vuitton writing instrument came to the former San Francisco mayor and current Lieutenant Governor via the 77th richest person in the world, 44-year-old “fertilizer king” Dmitry Rybolovlev. This particular Russian magnate lives in Geneva and made headlines when he bought a Palm Beach, Florida estate from Donald Trump.

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