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ancianita

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41. Does this tell you anything? Because whatever he made on the campaign was nothing compared
Wed Mar 23, 2022, 02:22 PM
Mar 2022

to the debts he'd incurred (over projects in Ukraine) and kept stalling to repay.

Financial records certified in December 2015 and filed by Manafort in Cyprus showed him to be approximately $17 million in debt to interests connected to interests favorable to Putin and Yanukovych in the months before joining the Trump presidential campaign in March.[114] These included a $7.8 million debt to Oguster Management Limited, a company connected to Deripaska.[114] This accords with a 2015 court complaint filed by Deripaska claiming that Manafort and his partners owed him $19 million in relation to a failed Ukrainian cable television business.[114] In January 2018, Surf Horizon Limited, a Cyprus-based company tied to Deripaska, sued Manafort and his business partner Richard "Rick" Gates, accusing them of financial fraud by misappropriating more than $18.9 million that the company had invested in Ukrainian telecom companies, known collectively as the "Black Sea Cable".[115] An additional $9.9 million debt was owed to a Cyprus company that tied through shell companies to Ivan Fursin [uk], a Ukrainian Member of Parliament of the Party of Regions.[114] Manafort spokesman Jason Maloni maintained in response, "Manafort is not indebted to Deripaska or the Party of Regions, nor was he at the time he began working for the Trump campaign."[114] During the 2016 Presidential campaign, Manafort, via Kilimnik, offered to provide briefings on political developments to Deripaska, though there is no evidence that the briefings took place.[116][117] A July 2017 application by the FBI for a search warrant revealed that a company controlled by Manafort and his wife had received a $10 million loan from Deripaska.[118][119]

According to leaked text messages between his daughters, Manafort was also one of the proponents of violent removal of the Euromaidan protesters, which resulted in police shooting dozens of people during 2014 Hrushevskoho Street riots. In one of the messages, his daughter writes that it was his "strategy that was to cause that, to send those people out and get them slaughtered."[120]

Manafort has rejected questions about whether Kilimnik, with whom he consulted regularly, might be in league with Russian intelligence.[121] According to Yuri Shvets, Kilimnik previously worked for the GRU, and every bit of information about his work with Manafort went directly to Russian intelligence.[122]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Manafort

In Miami he miscalculated how near he is to another federal indictment. He should have chartered his way out. Trump's pardon got him three houses and a bank account back, but maybe he still owes Deripaska. Somebody and something is definitely catching up with him, possibly from his Ukraine days. As others mention, maybe he wants to "help" oligarchs from the safety of Dubai. Maybe his wife and daughters, sick of him, notified the TSA & FBI.

So much complicated shadiness surrounds him. When the Jan6 hearings blow the roof off the House, I hope he's even a small part of their factual case.


Where is Paul Manafort now? calimary Mar 2022 #1
They just pulled him off a plane, trying to flee to Dubai. lagomorph777 Mar 2022 #2
Oh really??? calimary Mar 2022 #3
... Duppers Mar 2022 #10
Wow! Made my day already! Hope that snake ends KPN Mar 2022 #32
Made my day, too! calimary Mar 2022 #47
Arrest him. TDFG cannot protect him. ProudMNDemocrat Mar 2022 #4
Is he currently under any indictments? dumbcat Mar 2022 #15
His passport is no longer valid. patphil Mar 2022 #21
That wasn't my question dumbcat Mar 2022 #38
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Mar 2022 #62
Why do you believe that? former9thward Mar 2022 #14
This is why liberalgunwilltravel Mar 2022 #17
That says nothing about being in custody. former9thward Mar 2022 #23
K&R "2016: Manafort and Trump secretly hack the RNC Platform to remove support for Ukraine." AnotherMother4Peace Mar 2022 #5
2016: Manafort and Putin install Putin Puppet Trump in the US. Botany Mar 2022 #6
waterboarding Old Okie Mar 2022 #36
don't forget palin. when manafort was mccain campaign cochair, limbaugh would not support mccain certainot Mar 2022 #57
Thank you for this very valuable information. niyad Mar 2022 #58
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Mar 2022 #61
It does Tumbulu Mar 2022 #63
Bada bing, bada boom Achilleaze Mar 2022 #7
The guy needs to sit in jail KS Toronado Mar 2022 #8
Oh yes. I said it before Manafort is the linchpin Walleye Mar 2022 #9
Yep. JoanofArgh Mar 2022 #11
The guy on the right is quite Manafucked now. And hey Pinhead Stone... lagomorph777 Mar 2022 #12
Roger and Paul A_Steel_Magnolia Mar 2022 #13
Yes, the interesting question is exactly why/when it was revoked. lagomorph777 Mar 2022 #18
😊 Joinfortmill Mar 2022 #45
Stone lives quite close to Miami airport obamanut2012 Mar 2022 #24
Hmm...what happened to the wheelchair he needed for his court appearances? nt allegorical oracle Mar 2022 #52
He must have had the same doctor for rehab as Bill Cosby had. BigmanPigman Mar 2022 #53
RW attack is to say Obama engineered a coup against Yanukovych in 2014. Manafort omitted. nt Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2022 #16
2015: Manafort gets chummy with his old Trump Tower neighbor Trump? L. Coyote Mar 2022 #19
LOL! lagomorph777 Mar 2022 #20
Also don't forget liberalgunwilltravel Mar 2022 #22
Yup! Botany Mar 2022 #25
Indeed! I knew that and then forgot it. Been a busy five years...welcome! Evolve Dammit Mar 2022 #64
Not all by himself. Flynn is in there, too, along with a few key Russians Warpy Mar 2022 #26
True. lagomorph777 Mar 2022 #27
Roger and Paul A_Steel_Magnolia Mar 2022 #28
Manafort contacted the Trump campaign and offered his services. For free. tanyev Mar 2022 #29
Yup - I should have put that in the timeline. lagomorph777 Mar 2022 #31
Does this tell you anything? Because whatever he made on the campaign was nothing compared ancianita Mar 2022 #41
👍 Joinfortmill Mar 2022 #44
This deserves its own OP for visiblity. niyad Mar 2022 #59
K&R! SheltieLover Mar 2022 #30
K&R UCmeNdc Mar 2022 #33
2020: Chump PARDONS Manafort before leaving office FakeNoose Mar 2022 #34
The pardon couldn't cover anything after the date of the pardon. lagomorph777 Mar 2022 #35
Manafort's Pardon is null and void BlueIdaho Mar 2022 #37
Interesting point, thanks. So probably that is why he's been held stateside. ancianita Mar 2022 #42
Explains why Dimdonnie purged FBI of Russia counterintelligence experts. Kid Berwyn Mar 2022 #39
All those purged should be brought back in. lagomorph777 Mar 2022 #40
Glad to see that the article also mentioned Peter Strozk, who dealt with niyad Mar 2022 #60
It's spelled TREASON Joinfortmill Mar 2022 #43
Thank yu for clarifying this so well... FirstLight Mar 2022 #46
Your OP makes the whole exercise seem so....tawdry. BobTheSubgenius Mar 2022 #48
Any notes on others traveling to Dubai of late??? Who else was involved in Manafort's meetup??? ultralite001 Mar 2022 #49
Yup. A pattern is a pattern and it all makes sense. bucolic_frolic Mar 2022 #50
Unfortunately there are lots of ways of leaving the country without going through erronis Mar 2022 #51
You forgot he picked VP Pence. flying_wahini Mar 2022 #54
Fuck the Fartoman Blue Owl Mar 2022 #55
2022: Trump still walks free. Hotler Mar 2022 #56
Can "We the People" get the damn un-redacted Mueller report???? Losing faith rapidly Evolve Dammit Mar 2022 #65
Free should be in quotes; Not sure if the plaform change was in secret, but yeah, for sure he's at themaguffin Mar 2022 #66
The change was in secret; it took a long time to figure out who did it. lagomorph777 Mar 2022 #67
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