"WASHINGTON, June 20— A leading strategist for George Bush's 1988 Presidential campaign told Congress today that he and a group of partners in a New Jersey housing project had obtained nearly $31 million in Federal subsidies after a pivotal meeting three years ago between his lobbying firm and a top housing official. "
" The testimony by the Republican consultant, Paul J. Manafort, offered significant new information about ties between his firm - Black, Manafort, Stone & Kelly - and the Department of Housing and Urban Development during the Reagan Administration. New Details in a Pattern
It also added details to what is emerging as a pattern in which former Reagan aides and other prominent Republicans used their political influence, in return for large consulting fees from developers, to obtain millions of dollars from Federal low-income housing programs. "
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"WASHINGTON -- The veteran Republican political operative hired by GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump to direct his convention operations was a lobbyist in the center of a Reagan administration scandal involving a New Jersey housing project."
"In this case, Manafort, who helped elect Ronald Reagan as president, landed $42 million in rent subsidies and tax credits for a renovated housing project in Upper Deerfield Township, Cumberland County, that local officials didn't know about and didn't want."
"He founded two lobbying firms, including one with Trump adviser Roger Stone and veteran GOP political operative Charlie Black, all veterans of Reagan's 1980 race. That original firm, Black, Manafort, Stone & Kelly, was embroiled in the HUD scandal.
The second firm, Davis Manafort, was paid $2.9 million from 1998 to 2005 by such companies as Lockheed Martin and Verizon Communications, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a Washington-based research group. His partner was Rick Davis, who managed Arizona Sen. John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign."
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