Paul Manafort, Former Trump Campaign Chief, Faces New Allegations in Ukraine

New York Times ^ | 03/20/2017 | Andrew E. Kramer

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KIEV, Ukraine — After his name surfaced last August in a secret ledger listing millions of dollars in payments from a pro-Russian party in Ukraine, Paul Manafort not only lost his job running Donald J. Trump’s presidential campaign but also assumed center stage in a bizarre internecine struggle among Ukrainian political forces.

On Monday, the intrigue took another turn, when a member of Parliament in Ukraine released documents that he said showed that Mr. Manafort took steps to hide the payments, which were tied to Mr. Manafort’s work for former President Viktor F. Yanukovych. The documents included an invoice that appeared to show $750,000 funneled through an offshore account and disguised as payment for computers.

Mr. Manafort, who denied the latest allegations, has asserted that the ledger is a forgery and that the member of Parliament, Serhiy A. Leshchenko, was involved in a scheme to blackmail him. Mr. Leshchenko insists that a letter appearing to show him threatening Mr. Manafort with the release of damaging information was itself a fake, and he denies any involvement in blackmail.

The latest development unfolded against the backdrop of a congressional hearing on Monday in which the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, was asked about Mr. Manafort’s work in Ukraine. Mr. Comey declined to talk specifically about Mr. Manafort or any other individuals under scrutiny in the bureau’s investigation of ties between the Trump campaign and Russian intelligence.

Mr. Manafort worked for more than a decade for Russian-leaning political organizations in Ukraine before taking the helm of the Trump campaign over the summer. But he was pushed out after anticorruption authorities in Ukraine disclosed that Mr. Manafort may have been paid $12.7 million from an illegal slush fund maintained by his client, the Party of Regions.

[Rashputin]

". . .a member of Parliament . . ."

That would be one of these guys :

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RE: http://www.thompsontimeline.com/tag/alexandra-chalupa/

Yeah, the above link you gave tells me that the Dems have been doing opposition research on Trump’s campaign managers and the one tasked to do that is Alexandra Chalupa.

But what’s so surprising? Campaigns do that to each other all the time....

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not so

Manafort outsmarted the Cruzbots and Soros-bots who were trying to jigger the GOP delegate counts and throw the GOP nomination

As I recall he worked pro bono for Trump to do this

This is a hit piece on a skilled lobbyist who earned the right to be hated by the GOPe and the Klintonistas

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The problem arises when we have the executive branch working in concert with a political campaign. We have wiretapping, the DOJ running investigations which can aid in opposition research.

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not so

Manafort outsmarted the Cruzbots and Soros-bots who were trying to jigger the GOP delegate counts and throw the GOP nomination

As I recall he worked pro bono for Trump to do this

This is a hit piece on a skilled lobbyist who earned the right to be hated by the GOPe and the Klintonistas

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Agreed. Manafort did a critical job to secure the GOP nomination. And then Kellyanne was terrific the rest of the way.

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I'm so tired of the Russian bullshit coming from these commie loving lowlifes. Obama could have dealings with the devil and they wouldn't say a word. He laundered millions of dollars for terrorist in Iran and gave weapons and money to Al quada. Nothing was said or done about these real acts of treason. But talking to Russia is supposed to be real bad. What a joke.