Paul Manafort chaired the Trump campaign pro bono, so to speak, while quickly running out of liquidity after two Ukrainian oligarchs he worked with stopped sending him regular payments.
House investigators are asking about Manafort and his protege Rick Gates’s contacts with those oligarchs during the campaign, as well as with Konstantin Kilimnik, a Ukraine-based Russian political consultant who the FBI alleges is a Russian intelligence asset.
House investigators are interested in the following witnesses and entities:
-Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix
-Translator for the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting Anatoli Samochornov
-Private equity executive and cousin of Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg Andrew Intrater
-Brad Parscale, …read more
Source: TPM
