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(60,162 posts)MANAFORT and GATES generated tens of millions of dollars in income as a result of their Ukraine work.
In order to hide Ukraine payments from United States authorities, from approximately 2006 through at least 2016,
MANAFORT and GATES laundered the money through scores of United States and foreign corporations, partnerships, and bank accounts.
They funneled millions of dollars in payments into foreign nominee companies and bank accounts, opened by them and their accomplices in nominee names and in various foreign countries, including Cyprus, Saint Vincent, the Grenadines (Grenadines), and the Seychelles.
MANAFORT and GATES hid the existence of the foreign companies and bank accounts, falsely and repeatedly reporting to their tax preparers and to the United States that they had no foreign bank accounts.
More details here, in the The 12-count Manafort and Gates indictment.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/10/30/the-paul-manafort-and-rick-gates-indictment-annotated/?utm_term=.48b434892326
edited to add how they paid their bills:
spent millions of dollars on luxury goods and services for himself and his extended family
through payments wired from offshore nominee accounts to United States vendors