Section: TPM (USA)
Manafort Kept Up His Sketchy Behavior While Already In Deep Legal Trouble
A court document filed by special counsel Robert Mueller this week reveals new examples of how Paul Manafort allegedly engaged in brazenly shady behaviors well after he was already in deep legal trouble. The heavily redacted filing was made in the dispute over whether Manafort violated his plea deal with Mueller by lying to investigators —...
Skadden Arps Settles With DOJ Over Manafort Ukraine Dealings
The prominent law firm Skadden Arps reached a civil settlement with federal law enforcement today over work it performed in Ukraine on Paul Manafort’s request, the Justice Department announced in a statement. The firm agreed to pay $4.6 million that it secretly received for the work that it performed on behalf of the Ukrainian Ministry of...
What We Know About The 5 Meetings Between Trump And Putin
This weekend brought the remarkable news that President Donald Trump went to extreme lengths to conceal or limit access to information about his in-person meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin. As first reported by the Washington Post, Trump has blocked the rest of his administration from receiving briefings about his conversations with...
What We Know About The Russians Manafort Contacted During The 2016 Campaign
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s ties to two Russian figures have been simmering at the surface of special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe for more than a year, but Tuesday’s revelation that Manafort stands accused of seeking to share campaign polling data with those Russians brought the relationships fully into...
NYT: Manafort Requested That Russian Biz Pal To Share 2016 Data With Oligarch
On the heels of a court filings that revealed, via a redaction error, that prosecutors believed Paul Manafort had shared 2016 polling with a Russian business associate, the New York Times reported Tuesday that the polling included both public and internal polls. An unnamed person with knowledge of the situation told the Times that Manafort and...
US Citizen Arrested in Russia on Spy Charges
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s domestic security agency said Monday that it has arrested a U.S. citizen on espionage charges. The Federal Security Service, or FSB, the top KGB successor agency, said Paul Whelan was detained in Moscow on Friday. The agency said in Monday’s statement that he was caught “during an espionage operation,” but...
Another Player in the Story
“He owed us a lot of money. And he was offering ways to pay it back.” That’s the most intriguing and enticing quote from an article published today by Time. The quote is from a guy named Victor Boyarkin, who Time tracked down at a conference in Greece, apparently after quite a bit of sleuthing. Boyarkin works for Oleg Deripaska, the Russian...
Putin Praises Trump’s Decision To Withdraw Troops From Syria
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV, Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a chilling warning Thursday about the rising threat of a nuclear war, saying “it could lead to the destruction of civilization as a whole and maybe even our planet” — and putting the blame squarely on the U.S. Speaking at his annual news conference,...
Trump’s Inauguration Paid Trump’s Company — With Ivanka In The Middle
As the inaugural committee planned the landmark celebration, internal concerns were raised about whether Trump’s Washington hotel was overcharging for event space. The spending could be a violation of the law. When it came out this year that President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee raised and spent unprecedented amounts, people...
Vox: Manafort Allegedly Guided White House On How To Discredit Russia Probe
In the days after President Trump took office, Paul Manafort allegedly guided the administration on how to undermine and thwart the FBI probe into Russia’s election interference in the 2016 campaign, Vox reported Friday. Citing government records and “interviews with individuals familiar with the matter,” Vox reported that the former Trump...
