Tag: Paul Manafort

FBI conducted predawn raid of former Trump campaign chairman Manafort’s home

The following article by Carol D. Leonnig, Tom Hamburger and Rosalind S. Helderman was posted on the Washington Post website August 9, 2017:

FBI agents raided the home of President Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort without warning on July 26 with a search warrant, and seized documents and other records, say people familiar with the special counsel investigation. (Photo: Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post)

FBI agents raided the Alexandria home of President Trump’s former campaign chairman late last month, using a search warrant to seize documents and other materials, according to people familiar with the special counsel investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

Federal agents appeared at Paul Manafort’s home without advance warning in the predawn hours of July 26, the day after he met voluntarily with the staff for the Senate Intelligence Committee. Continue reading “FBI conducted predawn raid of former Trump campaign chairman Manafort’s home”

Manafort Talks With Senate Investigators About Meeting With Russians

The following article by Eileen Sullivan and Adam Goldman was posted on the New York Times website July 25, 2017:

WASHINGTON — President Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, met with Senate Intelligence Committee investigators on Tuesday to discuss the June 2016 meeting between a Russian lawyer and Mr. Trump’s inner circle that was set up for the campaign to receive damaging information about Hillary Clinton, according to a spokesman for Mr. Manafort.

“Paul Manafort met this morning, by previous agreement, with the bipartisan staff of the Senate Intelligence Committee and answered their questions fully,” said the spokesman, Jason Maloni.

Mr. Manafort gave the investigators notes he had taken during the meeting, according to one person familiar with Tuesday’s discussion with congressional investigators at a Washington law firm. Continue reading “Manafort Talks With Senate Investigators About Meeting With Russians”

Manafort testifies to Senate Intelligence Committee, turns over notes from Trump Tower meeting with Russian lawyer

The following article by Rosalind S. Helderman and Karoun Demirjian was posted on the Washington Post website July 25, 2017:

With some of the closest members of President Trump’s campaign slated to testify before congressional panels investigating its ties with Russia, here’s what investigators want to ask Trump’s son and former campaign manager. (Jenny Starrs/The Washington Post)

Paul Manafort, a top campaign aide to President Trump, appeared before the Senate Intelligence Committee early Tuesday morning to answer questions about Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

Before his voluntary interview, Manafort submitted to the committee notes that he took at a meeting with a Russian lawyer he and other campaign aides attended during the presidential campaign, a person familiar with the investigation said. Continue reading “Manafort testifies to Senate Intelligence Committee, turns over notes from Trump Tower meeting with Russian lawyer”

Huge Manafort Payment Reflects Murky Ukraine Politics

The following article by Andrew E. Kramer was posted on the New York Times website July 15, 2017:

KIEV, Ukraine — Paul J. Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, recently filed financial reports with the Justice Department showing that his lobbying firm earned nearly $17 million for two years of work for a Ukrainian political party with links to the Kremlin.

Curiously, that was more than the party itself reported spending in the same period for its entire operation — the national political organization’s expenses, salaries, printing outlays and other incidentals.

The discrepancies show a lot about how Mr. Manafort’s clients — former President Viktor F. Yanukovych of Ukraine and his Party of Regions — operated.

And in a broader sense, they underscore the dangers that lurk for foreigners who, tempted by potentially rich payoffs, cast their lot with politicians in countries that at best have different laws about money in politics, and at worst are, like Ukraine in those years, irredeemably corrupt. Continue reading “Huge Manafort Payment Reflects Murky Ukraine Politics”

Trump Team Met With Lawyer Linked to Kremlin During Campaign

The following article by J Becker, Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman was posted on the New York Times website July 8, 2017:

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Two weeks after Donald J. Trump clinched the Republican presidential nomination last year, his eldest son arranged a meeting at Trump Tower in Manhattan with a Russian lawyer who has connections to the Kremlin, according to confidential government records described to The New York Times.

The previously unreported meeting was also attended by Mr. Trump’s campaign chairman at the time, Paul J. Manafort, as well as the president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, according to interviews and the documents, which were outlined by people familiar with them.

While President Trump has been dogged by revelations of undisclosed meetings between his associates and Russians, this episode at Trump Tower on June 9, 2016, is the first confirmed private meeting between a Russian national and members of Mr. Trump’s inner circle during the campaign. It is also the first time that his son Donald Trump Jr. is known to have been involved in such a meeting. Continue reading “Trump Team Met With Lawyer Linked to Kremlin During Campaign”

At height of Russia tensions, Trump campaign chairman Manafort met with business associate from Ukraine

The following article by Rosalind S. Helderman, Tom Hamburger and Rachel Weiner was posted on the Washington Post website June 19, 2017:

Donald Trump’s campaign manager, Paul Manafort, walks the floor at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland on July 21, 2016. (Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post)

In August, as tension mounted over Russia’s role in the U.S. presidential race, Donald Trump’s campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, sat down to dinner with a business associate from Ukraine who once served in the Russian army.

Konstantin Kilimnik, who learned English at a military school that some experts consider a training ground for Russian spies, had helped run the Ukraine office for Manafort’s international political consulting practice for 10 years.

At the Grand Havana Room, one of New York City’s most exclusive cigar bars, the longtime acquaintances “talked about bills unpaid by our clients, about [the] overall situation in Ukraine . . . and about the current news,” including the presidential campaign, according to a statement provided by Kilimnik, offering his most detailed account of his interactions with the former Trump adviser. Continue reading “At height of Russia tensions, Trump campaign chairman Manafort met with business associate from Ukraine”

New documents show Trump aide laundered payments from party with Moscow ties, lawmaker alleges

The following article by Andrew Roth was posted on the Washington Post website March 21, 2017:

KIEV, Ukraine — A Ukrainian lawmaker released new financial documents Tuesday allegedly showing that a former campaign chairman for President Trump laundered payments from the party of a disgraced ex-leader of Ukraine using offshore accounts in Belize and Kyrgyzstan.

The new documents, if legitimate, stem from business ties between the Trump aide, Paul Manafort, and the party of former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, who enjoyed Moscow’s backing while he was in power. He has been in hiding in Russia since being overthrown by pro-Western protesters in 2014, and is wanted in Ukraine on corruption charges. Continue reading “New documents show Trump aide laundered payments from party with Moscow ties, lawmaker alleges”

Manafort faced blackmail attempt, hacks suggest

The following article by Kenneth P. Vogel, David Stern and Josh Meyer was posted on the Politico website February 23, 2017:

Stolen texts appear to show threats to expose relations among Russia-friendly forces, Trump and his former campaign chairman.

Paul Manafort confirmed the authenticity of the texts hacked from his daughter’s phone during an interview on Tuesday. | Getty

A purported cyberhack of the daughter of political consultant Paul Manafort suggests that he was the victim of a blackmail attempt while he was serving as Donald Trump’s presidential campaign chairman last summer.

The undated communications, which are allegedly from the iPhone of Manafort’s daughter, include a text that appears to come from a Ukrainian parliamentarian named Serhiy Leshchenko, seeking to reach her father, in which he claims to have politically damaging information about both Manafort and Trump. Continue reading “Manafort faced blackmail attempt, hacks suggest”