Posted on 10/30/2017 5:27:08 AM PDT by smileyface
2012 is two years after the actual crime went down. Think uranium.
For later....
Tucker: Source Says Podesta Brothers & Manafort, Not Trump, 'Central Figures' in Russia Probe
You can lay this one at the feet of Jeff Sessions.
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Many FReepers disagree. They believe Sessions is working with Mueller to take down the swamp. Meanwhile, Sessions is doing nothing and Mueller is chasing Manafort because that is all he has.
What exactly does this have to do with Russian influence of Trump’s election?
NOTHING!
Manafort was hired to advise Yanukovych months after massive street demonstrations known as the Orange Revolution overturned Yanukovychs victory in the 2004 presidential race.[50] Borys Kolesnikov, Yanukovichs campaign manager, said the party hired Manafort after identifying organizational and other problems in the 2004 elections, in which it was advised by Russian strategists.[48]
Manafort rebuffed U.S. Ambassador William Taylor when the latter complained he was undermining U.S. interests in Ukraine.[34]
According to a 2008 U.S. Justice Department annual report, Manaforts company received $63,750 from Yanukovychs Party of Regions over a six-month period ending on March 31, 2008, for consulting services.[51]
In 2010, under Manaforts tutelage, the opposition leader put the Orange Revolution on trial, campaigning against its leaders management of a weak economy. Returns from the presidential election gave Yanukovych a narrow win over Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, a leader of the 2004 demonstrations.
Yanukovych owed his comeback in Ukraines presidential election to a drastic makeover of his political persona and, people in his party say, that makeover was engineered in part by his American consultant, Manafort.[48]
In 2007 and 2008 Manafort was involved in investment projects with Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska (the acquisition of a Ukrainian telecoms company) and Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash (redevelopment of the site of the former Drake Hotel in New York City).[52]
The Associated Press has reported that Manafort negotiated a $10 million annual contract with Deripaska to promote Russian interests in politics, business, and media coverage in Europe and the United States, starting in 2005.[53]
In 2013 Yanukovych became the main target of the Euromaidan protests.[54]
After the February 2014 Ukrainian revolution (the conclusion of Euromaidan) Yanukovych fled to Russia.[54] On March 17, 2014, the day after the Crimean status referendum, Yanukovych became one of the first eleven persons who were placed under executive sanctions on the Specially Designated Nationals List (SDN) by President Obama, freezing his assets in the US and banning him from entering the United States.[55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65][a]
Manafort then returned to Ukraine in September 2014 to become an advisor to Yanukovychs former head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine Serhiy Lyovochkin.[49]
In this role he was asked to assist in rebranding Yanukovychs Party of Regions.[49] Instead, he argued to help stabilize Ukraine, Manafort was instrumental in creating a new political party called Opposition Bloc.[49] According to Ukrainian political analyst Mikhail Pogrebinsky, He thought to gather the largest number of people opposed to the current government, you needed to avoid anything concrete, and just become a symbol of being opposed.[49]
According to Manafort, he has not worked in Ukraine since the October 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election.[66][67]
However, according to Ukrainian border control entry data, Manafort traveled to Ukraine several times after that election, all the way through late 2015.[67]
According to The New York Times, his local office in Ukraine closed in May 2016.[28]
According to Politico, by then Opposition Bloc had already stopped payments for Manafort and this local office.[67]
In an April 2016 interview with ABC News Manafort stated that the aim of his activities in Ukraine had been to lead the country closer to Europe.[68]
Ukrainian government National Anti-Corruption Bureau studying secret documents claimed in August 2016 to have found handwritten records that show $12.7 million in cash payments designated for Manafort, although they had yet to determine if he had received the money.[28]
These undisclosed payments were from the pro-Russian political party Party of Regions, of the former president of Ukraine.[28] This payment record spans from 2007 to 2012.[28] Manaforts lawyer, Richard A. Hibey, said Manafort didnt receive any such cash payments as described by the anti-corruption officials.[28]
The Associated Press reported on August 17, 2016 that Manafort secretly routed at least $2.2 million in payments to two prominent Washington lobbying firms in 2012 on Party of Regions behalf, and did so in a way that effectively obscured the foreign political partys efforts to influence U.S. policy.[11]
Associated Press noted that under federal law, U.S. lobbyists must declare publicly if they represent foreign leaders or their political parties and provide detailed reports about their actions to the Justice Department, which Manafort reportedly did not do.[11] The lobbying firms unsuccessfully lobbied U.S. Congress to reject a resolution condemning the jailing of Yanukovychs main political rival, Yulia Tymoshenko.[69]
Financial records certified in December 2015 and filed by Manafort in Cyprus showed him to be approximately $17 million in debt to interests connected to interests favorable to Putin and Yanukovych in the months before joining the Trump presidential campaign in March.[70]
These included a $7.8 million debt to Oguster Management Limited, a company connected to Russian oligarch and close Putin associate Oleg Deripaska.[70] This accords with a 2015 court complaint filed by Deripaska claiming that Manafort and his partners owed him $19 million in relation to a failed Ukrainian cable television business.[70]
An additional $9.9 million debt was owed to a Cyprus company that tied through shell companies to Ivan Fursin, a Ukrainian Member of Parliament of the Party of Regions.[70] Manafort spokesman Jason Maloni maintained in response that Manafort is not indebted to Mr. Deripaska or the Party of Regions, nor was he at the time he began working for the Trump campaign.[70]
During the 2016 Presidential campaign, Manafort, via Kiev-based operative Konstantin Kilimnik, offered to provide briefings on political developments to Deripaska, though there is no evidence that the briefings took place.[71][72]
According to alleged leaked text messages between his daughters Manafort was also one of the proponents of violent removal of the Euromaidan protesters which resulted in police shooting dozens of people during 2014 Hrushevskoho Street riots.
In one of the messages his daughter writes that his strategy that was to cause that, to send those people out and get them slaughtered.[73]
Manafort has rejected questions about whether Russian-Ukrainian operative Konstantin Kilimnik, with whom he consulted regularly, might be in league with Russian intelligence.[74]
How do you know what Sessions is doing?
You have no clue what Sessions is doing
Your total knowledge is FR dogma based on nothing
Actually you can lay it at Manafort’s feet. And Trump’s for hiring him in the first place, which he should have known better than to do given Manafort’s connections. Why Tad Devine gets a pass is another matter unless he didn’t fudge his taxes.
No he doesn’t.
The /s tag should have followed this :
“Manafort first, to give the impression that Mueller is fair. Then the Podestas, U1, HRC, Clinton Foundation, Holder, Geitner, DNC
AKA The Storm.”
Mueller sees himself as a terminator - traveling back in time to destroy future trump allies before they can help trump MAGA
Mueller is a swamp-thing time traveller
Well the MSM is repeatedly hammering home the fact that the indictment states the charges cover a time period starting in 2006 and continuing to 2017 when he was “at the very top” of the DJT campaign. No mention of his association with the Podesta Group during the time period. *shocked*
I also don’t think this was a coincidence. Manafort owed millions to a Russian mobster and was probably trying to earn it back by influencing politics. Trump fired him right after he found out. That doesn’t make Hillary win as some might hope, but if it is true then Manafort belongs in jail.
Well he was working for Podesta during some of those dates. What struck me about the indictment is how eerily like Clinton’s dealings the counts read.
Do you use the term Dogma in every post?
As a Sessions apologist, confirm the following:
Sessions has been in office for 10 months. No charges
filed.
Mueller raided Manafort in July. Indicted in October.
Sessions is secretly collecting evidence and burying same.
You are correct. I don’t know what Sessions is doing. I do know what he is not doing. His Job.
Ralph Peters is on Fox Business right now ripping Manafort and Trump as Putins lap dogs.
Sessions must go and go NOW.
“Manafort is a sleezebag fired by Trump.”
Yep. Biggest mistake Trump made was to bring him on.
“Based on a quick review of earlier articles about his Ukraine/Cypress banking activities, the indictment by Mueller was a layup.”
They must be hoping Manafort will turn in a plea bargain of some kind.
Ever see Terminator? This is time travel to the past, to destroy Trump allies before they became Trump allies
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