Paul Manafort, former campaign chairman for President Donald Trump, is working with a Chinese billionaire to help him navigate U.S. building contracts should Trump push through an infrastructure plan, the Financial Times reported Monday.
Manafort met last week with Yan Jiehe, the founder of Pacific Construction Group in Shanghai. Yan told the Financial Times ahead of the meeting that Manafort would help him with the process of winning infrastructure contracts in the United States.
A spokesman for Manafort denied that the former Trump aide was helping Yan land infrastructure projects, however.
“The Pacific Construction Group was an impromptu meeting added to Mr …read more
Source: TPM
