AP Exclusive: Manafort firm received Ukraine ledger payout

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Jack Gillum, Chad Day and Jeff Horwitz, Associated Press
Updated 7:44 am, Wednesday, April 12, 2017


WASHINGTON (AP) — Last August, a handwritten ledger surfaced in Ukraine with dollar amounts and dates next to the name of Paul Manafort, who was then Donald Trump's campaign chairman.

Ukrainian investigators called it evidence of off-the-books payments from a pro-Russian political party — and part of a larger pattern of corruption under the country's former president. Manafort, who worked for the party as an international political consultant, has publicly questioned the ledger's authenticity.

Now, financial records newly obtained by The Associated Press confirm that at least $1.2 million in payments listed in the ledger next to Manafort's name were actually received by his consulting firm in the United States. They include payments in 2007 and 2009, providing the first evidence that Manafort's firm received at least some money listed in the so-called Black Ledger.

The two payments came years before Manafort became involved in Trump's campaign, but for the first time bolster the credibility of the ledger. They also put the ledger in a new light, as federal prosecutors in the U.S. have been investigating Manafort's work in Eastern Europe as part of a larger anti-corruption probe.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/politics/article/Records-match-some-Ukraine-ledger-payments-to-11067581.php

[Achilleaze]

1. freaking republicans & their Evil Empire patrons

[dalton99a]

2. And in case he denies again:

https://thinkprogress.org/manafort-secret-work-putin-russia-trump-e6a62d04cd45

[NewRedDawn]

3. Grifters & Traitors

the whole lot.

[Mc Mike]

4. Good. So we're getting more on (pun unintended) Page and Manafort's treasonous

ties to the russians. Still quiet on the Flynn front.

I'd love to see more about Stone and Epshteyn come out. Tillerson and Sessions, too. And Ross. And Kushner. And Nunes.

dRumpfenfuhrer had so many russian assets working in his campaign, that FBI wiretaps found the actual russian spies had nicknamed dRumpf campaign HQ 'the Lubyanka'. Many people are saying this, anyway.

[DK504]

5. This had damn well better be another charge

Even if was years before he became Campaign manager, he still has ties with a hostile nation, he was working for them, he came running when they called and he had information on sensitive information. He needs to be thrown infront of an Independent Investigator and questioned, closely. Let's see how fast he caves,

[herding cats]

6. This is more evidence of possible RICO charges.

From the article:

The AP, however, identified in the records two payments received by Manafort that aligned with the ledger: one for $750,000 that a Ukrainian lawmaker said last month was part of a money-laundering effort that should be investigated by U.S. authorities. The other was $455,249 and also matched a ledger entry.

The newly obtained records also expand the global scope of Manafort's financial activities related to his Ukrainian political consulting, because both payments came from companies once registered in the Central American country of Belize. Last month, the AP reported that the U.S. government has examined Manafort's financial transactions in the Mediterranean country of Cyprus as part of its probe.

Then today this is just now reported:

Lobbyists directed by Manafort’s firm covert influence campaign register with US gov’t under foreign agents law

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/lobbyists-directed-by-manaforts-firm-covert-influence-campaign-register-with-us-govt-under-foreign-agents-law/2017/04/12/6ffc5a0c-1f9d-11e7-bb59-a74ccaf1d02f_story.html?utm_term=.d25d3a46c827

It's getting very hot to be associated with Manafort suddenly.