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In reply to the discussion: Manafort is the key to the whole Putin/Trump/Ukraine plot. [View all]ancianita
(36,053 posts)41. Does this tell you anything? Because whatever he made on the campaign was nothing compared
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]
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.
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K&R "2016: Manafort and Trump secretly hack the RNC Platform to remove support for Ukraine."
AnotherMother4Peace
Mar 2022
#5
don't forget palin. when manafort was mccain campaign cochair, limbaugh would not support mccain
certainot
Mar 2022
#57
Hmm...what happened to the wheelchair he needed for his court appearances? nt
allegorical oracle
Mar 2022
#52
RW attack is to say Obama engineered a coup against Yanukovych in 2014. Manafort omitted. nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Mar 2022
#16
Indeed! I knew that and then forgot it. Been a busy five years...welcome!
Evolve Dammit
Mar 2022
#64
Does this tell you anything? Because whatever he made on the campaign was nothing compared
ancianita
Mar 2022
#41
Any notes on others traveling to Dubai of late??? Who else was involved in Manafort's meetup???
ultralite001
Mar 2022
#49
Unfortunately there are lots of ways of leaving the country without going through
erronis
Mar 2022
#51
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