Important trial info about Manafort, Gates, $$ laundering, Cypress, Ukraine, Russians, Grenadines

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5. Wilbur Ross has been in my mind also. Here are two,

a cautious Forbes article several hours old and a 1-hour Business Insider report that also cites the Forbes report.

New Details About Wilbur Ross’ Business Point To Pattern Of Grifting
https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2018/08/06/new-details-about-wilbur-rosss-businesses-point-to-pattern-of-grifting/

Wilbur Ross is accused of swindling $120 million from associates and 'could rank among the biggest grifters in American history,' according to a bombshell Forbes report
https://www.businessinsider.com/wilbur-ross-120-million-grift-allegations-in-bombshell-forbes-report-2018-8

When Ross was named to the cabinet, I looked for background on him and, among others, found a New York Times article (an article subject to the editorial process, NOT an opinion piece) basically stating flat out that he was clean and in fact had come in and cleaned up the Bank of Cyprus. Many things have seemingly contradicted that picture of an honest appointee, and now this. The journalist, whose name I don't recall at the moment, was working for the NYT as of a couple months ago and is their Russia specialist.

Btw, I'm reminded of the NYT's Halloween 2016 article, 8 days before election day, that was rewritten at the request of unidentified government authorities (FBI I imagine) to imply that the FBi'S investigation of Trump-Russia hadn't found anything of significance. Those journalists were reportedly unhappy at this forced restyling from above that buried their original lead in a brief sentence far down that merely said the FBI had an open investigation.

NYT: Investigating Donald Trump, F.B.I. Sees No Clear Link to Russia
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/01/us/politics/fbi-russia-election-donald-trump.html

WaPo: New York Times acknowledges it buried the lead in pre-election Russia-Trump story

The resulting article, on Oct. 31, reflected that caution and said that agents had uncovered no “conclusive or direct link between Mr. Trump and the Russian government.”

The key fact of the article — that the F.B.I. had opened a broad investigation into possible links between the Russian government and the Trump campaign — was published in the 10th paragraph.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2018/05/16/new-york-times-acknowledges-it-buried-the-lead-in-pre-election-russia-trump-story/?utm_term=.27686ba780a4