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.
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”