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Ukraine presidential vote begins under bribe claim cloud
KIEV, Ukraine — Voters in Ukraine are casting ballots in a presidential election Sunday after a campaign that produced a comedian with no political experience as the front-runner and allegations of voter bribery. Opinion polls have shown Volodymyr Zelenskiy who stars in a TV sitcom about a teacher who becomes president after a video of him...
New Britain native Paul Manafort sentenced to an additional 3 1/2 years in prison
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort sentenced to more than 3 1/2 additional years in prison Manafort offered an apology Wednesday as he appeared before a federal judge in Washington for sentencing. In a plea cut in September 2018, Manafort admitted to money laundering, tax fraud and illegal foreign lobbying connected to his years of...
Paul Manafort to be sentenced Thursday; faces 25 years in prison
A federal judge will sentence Paul Manafort on Thursday for defrauding banks and the government and failing to pay taxes on millions of dollars in income he earned from Ukrainian political consulting — charges that stemmed from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. The...
Trump Tower and Robert Mueller reach a deal over Paul Manafort’s condo fees
Trump Tower’s condo board has made a deal with special counsel Robert Mueller’s office over who will pay Paul Manafort’s condo fees. The situation, one of the more poetic conclusions to a Mueller case, arose because Manafort forfeited his apartment in Trump Tower in Manhattan as part of his conspiracy, foreign lobbying and money...
Trump could try to sell North Korea a Vietnam model. But Kim’s unlikely to be buying
WASHINGTON, DC — The night before his historic summit with US President Donald Trump last June, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un took a surprise stroll in downtown Singapore to see the sights of the wealthy capitalist city. The inference seemed clear. If cash-strapped Pyongyang chooses to engage the world — and ditch its nuclear weapons — this...
A stern memo about Manafort says he ‘brazenly violated’ law
WASHINGTON — Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort committed crimes that cut to “the heart of the criminal justice system” and over the years deceived everyone from bookkeepers and banks to federal prosecutors and his own lawyers, according to a sentencing memo filed by special counsel Robert Mueller‘s office. In the memo, submitted...
Special counsel says Paul Manafort deserves up to 24.5 years in prison for financial crimes
Paul Manafort defrauded banks, the IRS and other federal authorities out of greed, and thus should spend perhaps all his remaining years alive behind bars, special counsel Robert Mueller’s office said Friday night. In a 26-page outline of his crimes and convictions for financial crimes, prosecutors make plain how high-flying Manafort...
Facebook takes down anti-NATO pages linked to Russian news agency Sputnik
Facebook removed hundreds of pages on Thursday it said posed as independent news sites in eastern Europe and elsewhere but were actually run by employees at Russian state-owned news agency Sputnik. Facebook (FB) said the 364 pages and accounts had almost 800,000 followers and had spent around $135,000 on ads on the platform between October 2013...
Flying of drones closes London-Gatwick, was intentional, police say
The United Kingdom’s second-biggest airport has been closed for over 12 hours after drones were seen over the airfield in what police described as a “deliberate act.” Flights were diverted or grounded at London’s Gatwick Airport after two drones were spotted near the airfield at around 9 p.m. Wednesday night. The airport was briefly...
Mueller: Paul Manafort lied about contacts with Trump administration this year
WASHINGTON, DC — Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team said Friday that former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort lied on five major issues after agreeing to cooperate with prosecutors, including his “contact with administration officials.” In a heavily-redacted document released Friday, Mueller’s team also said Manafort lied about...
