PAUL Manafort, Jr., the campaign manager of US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, is under fire after being named this week in a Ukrainian corruption investigation.
Growing scrutiny into the background of the 67-year-old lobbyist however has also unearthed past dealings with dictators, including the late former President Ferdinand Marcos who is likewise back in the news amid controversy over the planned burial of his remains in the military-run Heroes’ Cemetery.
Manafort, back then a young Republican operative, landed what is said to be one of his first major deals, advising Marcos in the closing months of the strongman’s two-decade rule.
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Source: The Manila Times
