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The Wacky Tale of Paul Manafort, Anne Hathaway’s Fraudster Ex-Boyfriend, and a Vatican Land Scam
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/GettyBefore Robert Mueller got him thrown in jail, before he ran Donald Trump’s campaign, before he helped make Viktor Yanukovych the president of Ukraine, Paul Manafort angled to make a ton of money off of the Vatican. A federal judge in D.C. will finalize at The Daily Beast....
Ukraine’s Elections Suffer From a Manafort Hangover—And The Next President May Be a Comedian
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/ReutersKIEV, Ukraine—Before Hillary Clinton became his target in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Paul Manafort had for years concentrated his considerable skills at defamation and denigration on another prominent female politician, Yulia Tymoshenko of Ukraine. Today, Tymoshenko’s...
Manafort’s Lawyers in Sentencing Memo: He’s no Murderer, Mafioso or Madoff
Alex WongPaul Manafort’s lawyers downplayed their client’s criminal history as outlined by Robert Mueller’s Special Counsel’s Office, writing off his actions as unnoteworthy and not worthy of extensive punishment.“Manafort, who over the decades has served four U.S. presidents and has no prior criminal history, is presented...
Mueller Memo Outlines Paul Manafort’s ‘Repeated and Brazen’ Life of Crime
BloombergPaul Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, could face up to and 22 years in prison for conspiring against the U.S. and a conspiracy to obstruct justice connected to his covert lobbying on behalf of Ukraine’s former pro-Russian government.Manafort is already looking at a at The Daily Beast. …read more...
The Top U.S. Investor in Russia, Michael John Calvey, Seized as Putin’s Regime Turns on ‘Good American’
STOYAN NENOVKYIV, Ukraine—Russian authorities have at The Daily Beast. …read more Source: The Daily...
While Putin Hardens His Line in Ukraine, Trump Goes Squishy
Photo Illustration by Kelly Caminero/The Daily BeastMARIUPOL, Ukraine—Oleksandr was the last Ukrainian soldier entering the snow-caked trenches on a journey to the front lines of war. The Ukrainian troops and I trudged at five-meter intervals, a distance close enough so the men could communicate but far enough to minimize casualties if we were...
This Time It’s Russia’s Emails Getting Leaked
Photo Illustration by Lyne Lucien/The Daily BeastRussian oligarchs and Kremlin apparatchiks may find the tables turned on them later this week when a new leak site unleashes a compilation of hundreds of thousands of hacked emails and gigabytes of leaked documents. Think of it as Wikileaks, but without Julian Assange’s aversion for posting...
Skadden Arps Knew Its Work for Manafort Was Borderline at Best—and Now It’ll Pay More Than $4 Million for It
Bill O’Leary/GettyPaul Manafort just brought one of America’s most powerful law firms down with him. The firm Skadden Arps, once home to Barack Obama’s first White House counsel, admitted on Thursday that it misled the Justice Department to cover up the nature of its work for the Ukrainian government. Thanks to a report it...
Deripaska’s Rusal Installs Kremlin Fanboy as White House Aims to Lift Sanctions
Photo Illustration by Lyne Lucien/The Daily BeastPutin-friendly oligarch Oleg Deripaska’s aluminum empire is trying to make nice with the U.S. in a bid to get out from sanctions, and that includes trying to clean up its corporate leadership. But the firm has quietly installed a new board chairman who has expressed support for the Russian...
Top U.S. Political Consultants Still Seeking Work in Ukraine Even After Paul Manafort’s Downfall
Carlo Allegri/ReutersThis story originally appeared in The Daily Beast newsletter, Pay Dirt. Sign up for that newsletter: at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here …read more Source: The Daily...
