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Judi Lynn

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Wed Apr 12, 2017, 08:55 AM Apr 2017

AP Exclusive: Manafort firm received Ukraine ledger payout [View all]

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

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