LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA: “The judge assigned to the criminal case against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his ex-deputy Rick Gates held a closed-door hearing Wednesday [2-7-18] on a request by three of Gates’ attorneys to quit the case. Gates and his three defense attorneys — Shanlon Wu, Walter Mack and AnneMarie McAvoy — arrived […]
Category: Paul Manafort
1/16/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA: “A federal judge on Tuesday [1-16-18] delayed setting a trial date for President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort, who faces charges stemming from the special counsel’s probe of allegations of Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election. Defense lawyers said the government has still not yet produced all of the evidence […]
1/10/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA: “A Russian metals billionaire sued President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman on Wednesday [1-10-18], alleging he and a partner misappropriated at least $18.9 million of funds the Russian had invested. Oleg Deripaska alleged in a lawsuit filed in the New York state court Wednesday that Paul Manafort, the former campaign manager, and his […]
1/3/2018
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, sued the special counsel on Wednesday [1-3-17] and asked a federal court to narrow his authority, escalating Republican efforts to discredit an investigation that has stretched longer than the White House expected. The unusual move comes as Mr. Trump tries to portray the […]
12/15/2017
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT: “A federal judge has released former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort from house arrest on $10 million bail. Manafort will be allowed to live at his home in Florida and will be under curfew and GPS monitoring. He’ll be able to travel to Washington for court appearances and to meet with his legal […]
12/4/2017
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, and an associate with ties to Russian intelligence drafted an op-ed article last week about Mr. Manafort’s work for Russia-aligned interests in Ukraine, according to a court document filed Monday [12-4-17] by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III. The filing seeks tougher […]
11/9/2017
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT: “The Justice Department is seeking to reach a plea deal in its criminal investigation of the former son-in-law of Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump’s one-time campaign chairman, according to people familiar with the matter. The investigation into Jeffrey Yohai—who hasn’t been charged with any crime—by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and U.S. […]
11/2/2017
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, may go to trial as early as April on money-laundering and conspiracy charges stemming from accusations that he and an associate failed to pay taxes on millions of dollars they earned overseas. During a brief hearing Thursday [11-2-17] at U.S. District Court […]
11/1/2017
CAMPAIGN/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA: “Paul Manafort, former campaign manager for President Donald Trump, had three U.S. passports, millions in assets and ties to Russian oligarchs, according to federal court documents after his indictment on tax fraud and money laundering charges… Manafort, 68, and Gates, who also worked on Trump’s campaign, pleaded not guilty on Monday in a […]
10/31/2017
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA: “The charges against Paul J. Manafort and an associate involve allegations of tax fraud in the United States, but anticorruption groups in Kiev say that Mr. Manafort profited from financial wrongdoing in their country and that it cost the Ukrainian people dearly… The indictment, unsealed in Washington, on Monday [10-30-17] accused Mr. Manafort […]
10/31/2017
CALIFORNIA/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/POLITICS: “A California neuroscientist vying to unseat Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher stepped up his criticism of the conservative on Tuesday [10-31-17], demanding he return a $1,000 contribution from indicted Trump adviser Paul Manafort. The Orange County seat held by Rohrabacher is key to Democrats’ hopes to increase their numbers in the U.S. House of […]
10/31/2017
CAMPAIGN/FAKE NEWS/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA: “The Fake News is working overtime. As Paul Manaforts lawyer said, there was ‘no collusion’ and events mentioned took place long before he… came to the campaign. Few people knew the young, low level volunteer named George, who has already proven to be a liar. Check the DEMS!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, October […]
10/30/2017
PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort was taken into custody Monday [10-30-17] on charges that he laundered more than $18 million in funds from his work for a pro-Russia party in Ukraine through offshore accounts. In a separate plea deal in court documents that were unsealed Monday, George Papadopoulos, a foreign-policy […]
10/30/2017
CAMPAIGN/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT: “….Also, there is NO COLLUSION!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, October 30, 2017 09:28am […]
10/30/2017
CAMPAIGN/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT: “Sorry, but this is years ago, before Paul Manafort was part of the Trump campaign. But why aren’t Crooked Hillary & the Dems the focus?????” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, October 30, 2017 09:25am […]
10/24/2017
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER: “The Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office is pursuing an investigation into possible money laundering by Paul Manafort, said three people familiar with the matter, adding to the federal and state probes concerning the former Trump campaign chairman. The investigation by the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York is being conducted […]
9/21/2017
INTELLIGENCE/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA: “U.S. authorities placed Paul Manafort under surveillance after he was ousted as Donald Trump’s campaign manager in the summer of 2016, according to U.S. officials with knowledge of the matter. The surveillance, which was part of a counterintelligence investigation into Russian interference with the presidential election, didn’t involve listening to Mr. Manafort’s phone […]
9/18/2017
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA: “Paul J. Manafort was in bed early one morning in July when federal agents bearing a search warrant picked the lock on his front door and raided his Virginia home. They took binders stuffed with documents and copied his computer files, looking for evidence that Mr. Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, […]
9/15/2017
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA: “A spokesman for former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, Jason Maloni, spent about two-and-a-half hours testifying Friday [9-15-17] before a federal grand jury probing potential collusion between the campaign and Russia. Maloni arrived at the courthouse just before 9 a.m. and disappeared behind the frosted glass doors of the grand jury suite on […]
8/30/2017
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA: “Paul Manafort’s political-consulting firm was active for more than a decade doing work that often dovetailed with Russian political interests not only in Ukraine, but also in Georgia and Montenegro, other countries the Kremlin considered to be in its sphere of influence. A Wall Street Journal examination shows these efforts were broader in […]
8/29/2017
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER: “Special Counsel Robert Mueller has subpoenaed the spokesman for former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, demanding records related to his work for Mr. Manafort and seeking his testimony before a federal grand jury, according to a person familiar with the matter. Jason Maloni was served Monday [8-28-17] night with a subpoena seeking […]
8/11/2017
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT: “Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s son-in-law, Jeffrey Yohai, met with Department of Justice investigators in recent months, according to two sources familiar with the matter. Yohai provided information and documents to federal investigators in New York more than two months ago, according to one of the sources. The sources say the Justice […]
8/10/2017
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA: “Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, has tapped a new legal team to represent him as government lawyers examine possible Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, his spokesman Jason Maloni said. Law firm WilmerHale had been speaking on Manafort’s behalf to investigators, but that relationship has ended, Maloni said. […]
8/9/2017
INTELLIGENCE/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA: “Investigators for the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, recently searched a home of President Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, for tax documents and foreign banking records, according to a person briefed on the matter. Officials did not disclose where the search warrant was carried out. Mr. Manafort has homes in […]
8/9/2017
FBI/INTELLIGENCE/PAUL MANAFORT: “Federal investigators sought cooperation from Paul Manafort’s son-in-law in an effort to increase pressure on President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, according to three people familiar with the probe. Investigators approached Jeffrey Yohai, who has partnered in business deals with Manafort, earlier this summer, setting off ‘real waves’ in Manafort’s orbit, one of […]
7/26/2017
INTELLIGENCE/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA: “The Senate judiciary committee will drop its subpoena of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, a source familiar with the matter told CNN on Tuesday, hours after the committee announced its subpoenas. The two sides have agreed to continue talking, and he will no longer be compelled to appear at a hearing the […]
7/25/2017
INTELLIGENCE/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA: “President Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, met with Senate Intelligence Committee investigators on Tuesday [7-25-17] to discuss the June 2016 meeting between a Russian lawyer and Mr. Trump’s inner circle that was set up to receive damaging information about Hillary Clinton, according to a spokesman for Mr. Manafort. ‘Paul Manafort met this […]
7/25/2017
GOP/INTELLIGENCE/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA: “The Republican-led Senate Judiciary Committee has issued a subpoena for Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, ordering him to appear before the panel on Wednesday [7-26-17]. In a joint statement, Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R, Iowa) and top Democrat Dianne Feinstein (D, Calif.) announced that negotiations over Paul Manafort’s voluntary cooperation with the […]
7/19/2017
INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE/PAUL MANAFORT/UKRAINE: “Financial records filed last year in the secretive tax haven of Cyprus, where Paul J. Manafort kept bank accounts during his years working in Ukraine and investing with a Russian oligarch, indicate that he had been in debt to pro-Russia interests by as much as $17 million before he joined Donald J. […]
7/19/2017
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/RUSSIA/TRUMP FAMILY/DONALD JR/JARED KUSHNER/TRUMP PEOPLE/PAUL MANAFORT: “President Donald Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr., son-in-law Jared Kushner and former campaign manager Paul Manafort have been asked to appear before U.S. Senate committees next week to answer questions about the campaign’s alleged connections to Russia, officials said on Wednesday [7-19-17]. The three men are the closest […]
7/17/2017
INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE/PAUL MANAFORT: “New York prosecutors have demanded records relating to up to $16 million in loans that a bank run by a former campaign adviser for President Donald Trump made to former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, according to a person familiar with the matter. The subpoena by the Manhattan district attorney’s office to the […]
6/27/2017
LOBBYING/TRUMP PEOPLE/PAUL MANAFORT/UKRAINE: “President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort registered Tuesday [6-27-17]as an agent of a foreign government, acknowledging for the first time that a small part of his lobbying work for Ukraine’s former president was aimed at influencing U.S. policy makers and journalists. The Justice Department filing by Mr. Manafort, who for […]
6/27/2017
LEGAL/TRUMP PEOPLE/PAUL MANAFORT/UKRAINE: “Paul Manafort, who was forced out as President Trump’s campaign chairman last summer after five months of infighting and criticism about his business dealings with pro-Russian interests, disclosed Tuesday [6-27-17] that his consulting firm had received more than $17 million over two years from a Ukrainian political party with links to the […]
6/23/2017
FBI/INTELLIGENCE/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA: “Federal investigators are examining financial transactions involving Paul Manafort and his son-in-law, who embarked on a series of real estate deals in recent years fueled by millions of dollars from Mr. Manafort, according to two people familiar with the matter. The transactions involve the financing of apartments and luxury homes in New York […]
5/24/2017
RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE/PAUL MANAFORT: “Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign manager, turned over more than 300 pages of documents to the Senate intelligence committee related to its investigation of Russian election meddling, according to a source familiar with the Senate probe. The documents included drafts of speeches, calendars and notes from his time on the campaign, […]
5/12/2017
LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE/PAUL MANAFORT: “The Justice Department last month requested banking records of Paul Manafort as part of a widening of probes related to President Donald Trump’s former campaign associates and whether they colluded with Russia in interfering with the 2016 election, according to people familiar with the matter. In mid-April, federal investigators requested Mr. Manafort’s […]
04/12/2017
RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE/UKRAINE/PAUL MANAFORT: “Aug. 19 was an eventful day for Paul Manafort. That morning, he stepped down from guiding Donald J. Trump’s presidential campaign, after a brief tenure during which Mr. Trump won the Republican nomination, Democrats’ emails were hacked and the campaign’s contacts with Russia came under scrutiny. Dogged by revelations about past financial […]
3/24/2017
INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE/PAUL MANAFORT: “Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman has agreed to an interview with the House committee probing alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election. Paul Manafort, who served as Mr. Trump’s campaign chairman and ran the day-to-day operations of the campaign for about five months, agreed through an attorney to speak with the House […]
3/21/2017
CAMPAIGN/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE/UKRAINE/PAUL MANAFORT: “US President Donald Trump’s ex-campaign chair Paul Manafort is facing fresh allegations over his links to former pro-Russian Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. Ukrainian lawmaker Sergii Leshchenko claims a document found in a safe in Kiev may be evidence that Manafort tried to mask payments to him from Yanukovych’s party. The claim comes […]