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TheBlackAdder

(28,163 posts)
Tue Jun 4, 2019, 10:19 AM Jun 2019

REVEALED: Manafort family's mysterious $1 million lender

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Journalists have spent months seeking the identity of the businessman who lent $1 million to the family of Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former 2016 campaign manager. And Bloomberg News is reporting that the lender has officially come forward: California businessman Arjan “Ari” Zieger.

Previously, Bloomberg News reports, the 56-year-old Zieger (who has been heavily involved in real estate) tried to keep the loan a secret because California is a very Democratic state and Trump is unpopular there. But according to Zieger’s attorney, “very unintended and unforeseen situations” have made it impossible for him to continue hiding his involvement in the loan.

Manafort’s need for a $1 million loan, Bloomberg reports, goes back to 2017, when he was hoping to develop property in Southern California and contacted developer/Hollywood film producer Scott Adler — who introduced him to attorney Keith Berglund. And Berglund mentioned Manafort’s ideas to Zieger.

Bloomberg News recently interviewed Adler in his Los Angeles home, where they were joined by Zieger and Berglund. Adler stressed that despite his disdain for Trump, he was quite intrigued by Manafort’s real estate proposal in 2017.



https://www.rawstory.com/2019/06/california-businessman-comes-forward-as-manafort-familys-mysterious-1-million-lender/

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REVEALED: Manafort family's mysterious $1 million lender (Original Post) TheBlackAdder Jun 2019 OP
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I believe their is also a mysterious benefactor that paid justhanginon Jun 2019 #2

justhanginon

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2. I believe their is also a mysterious benefactor that paid
Tue Jun 4, 2019, 10:37 AM
Jun 2019

off some rather large debts of now Supreme Court judge Kavanaugh. Ah, the many mysteries of the the trump administration financial goings on.

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