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Paul Manafort, former Trump chairman, under investigation for money laundering
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort provides a wide range of services to his clients. For Vladimir Putin, Manafort put together a $10 million-a-year plan to influence American politics and slant news coverage. For Viktor Yanukovych’s pro-Russian Party of Regions, Manafort landed both the presidency of Ukraine and arranged protests...
Kushner not only forgot to mention that he talked to Russian bankers, he also forgot why
What got Michael Flynn in trouble—supposedly—isn’t that he was having frequent chats with the Russian ambassador. It’s that he wasn’t being open about those chats and explaining what they were really about. Who else is known to be in a similar situation? Only on Monday did it emerge that executives of Russian state development...
Paul Manafort used Wilbur Ross’ Bank of Cyprus to handle all his illicit Russian funding needs
TrumpWorld is a land of coincidences. Some of those are happy, like how nice it was that Secretary of Commerce (and “King of Bankruptcy”) Wilbur Ross had a bank perfectly suited to launder the money that Paul Manafort raked in helping to spread Putin-ism throughout Eastern Europe, including the $12.7 million Manafort is accused of stealing from...
CNN reports FBI may have proof of collusion between Russia and Trump campaign
And here’s why Republicans really spent the day in a high state of panic. The FBI has information that indicates associates of President Donald Trump communicated with suspected Russian operatives to possibly coordinate the release of information damaging to Hillary Clinton’s campaign, US officials told CNN. On Monday, many...
Sean Spicer will not be talking about people who don’t work in the White House … anymore
Sean Spicer will now give up making comments on the press, on Democrats, and even on Republicans in Congress. After all… xBREAKING: Re: Manafort, Spicer tells me: “It would be inappropriate for us to comment on a person who is not a White House employee.”— Peter Alexander (@PeterAlexander) March 22, 2017 Well there’s a new...
Trump’s former campaign chairman had $10 million contract to ‘greatly benefit’ Putin government
New from the Associated Press: President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, secretly worked for a Russian billionaire to advance the interests of Russian President Vladimir Putin a decade ago and proposed an ambitious political strategy to undermine anti-Russian opposition across former Soviet republics, The Associated...
Paul ‘very limited role’ Manafort has unlimited trouble in Ukraine
Fresh evidence suggests that former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort may really have collected millions in illegal cash from Ukraine. The documents included an invoice that appeared to show $750,000 funneled through an offshore account and disguised as payment for computers. This invoice backs up accusations that Manafort pulled in more than...
Open thread for night owls: Russian hacking operations are increasingly ‘audacious, and reckless’
From propaganda campaigns against foreign political opponents to targeting the Ukrainian electrical grid, state-sponsored Russian hacking is notable less for its technical prowess (to this day, most attacks begin as that most low-tech of all hacking efforts, convincing unwary targets to open malware-laden links or emails) but for the boldness of...
Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort wanted for questioning in Ukraine corruption case
Some people in Ukraine would really like to have a chat with Donald Trump’s former campaign chair. Ukrainian prosecutors want to question Paul Manafort in connection with a corruption investigation and have made repeated requests for assistance from US authorities, CNN has learned. Officials in Ukraine have made multiple attempts to secure...
Trump, Merkel hold press conference
Popular vote loser Donald Trump is holding a press conference with the leader of the free world, German Chancellor Angela Merkel. If she can stand it, so can we. Watch it on the regular cable news networks or here, on C-SPAN. Friday, Mar 17, 2017 · 6:06:47 PM +00:00 …read more Source: Daily...
