Bill O’Leary/GettyPaul Manafort just brought one of America’s most powerful law firms down with him. The firm Skadden Arps, once home to Barack Obama’s first White House counsel, admitted on Thursday that it misled the Justice Department to cover up the nature of its work for the Ukrainian government. Thanks to a report it produced to help Manafort in his work for Ukraine’s Kremlin-friendly president in 2012, it has now promised to register as a foreign agent. And it’s costing the firm. at The Daily Beast. …read more
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