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HipChick

(25,485 posts) Fri Oct 13, 2017, 06:53 PM Oct 2017

Manafort Had $60 Million Relationship With a Russian Oligarch..

LONDON — Paul Manafort, a former campaign manager for President Donald Trump, has much stronger financial ties to a Russian oligarch than have been previously reported.

An NBC News investigation reveals that $26 million changed hands in the form of a loan between a company linked to Manafort and the oligarch, Oleg Deripaska, a billionaire with close ties to the Kremlin.

The loan brings the total of their known business dealings to around $60 million over the past decade, according to financial documents filed in Cyprus and the Cayman Islands.

Manafort was forced to resign from the Trump campaign in August 2016, following allegations of improper financial dealings, charges he has strenuously denied. He is now a central figure in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. Investigators have said they are looking into Manafort's financial ties to prominent figures in Russia.

According to company documents obtained by NBC News in Cyprus, funds were sent from a company owned by Deripaska to entities linked to Manafort, registered in Cyprus.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/manafort-had-60m-relationship-russian-oligarch-n810541?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_np

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Manafort Had $60 Million Relationship With a Russian Oligarch.. (Original Post) HipChick Oct 2017 OP

after due process and all.... dhill926 Oct 2017 #1

Kick. dalton99a Oct 2017 #2

Putin sent him to seal the deal. Trump is so dumb that he didnt know who Manafort really was but Eliot Rosewater Oct 2017 #3

What is the nature of the $1.7 billion? First time that I have heard that specific a number. Not Ruth Oct 2017 #4

If memory is correct the Wall Street Journal not long Enoki33 Oct 2017 #11

He's a good man, a fine man. George II Oct 2017 #10

Was not the Wilbur Ross the Wellstone ruled Oct 2017 #5

Incarcerate republican treason weasels Achilleaze Oct 2017 #6

NBC has more yet to come I'm sure, FF45 has been targeting them this week, and BiminiTwisted Oct 2017 #7

Yep... HipChick Oct 2017 #9

Hadn't made that connection, but I think you're right iluvtennis Oct 2017 #8

If we were to make three lists of Trump's employees, friends and relatives... jmowreader Oct 2017 #12

I wonder how much is cost Russia to steal the presidential election? Irish_Dem Oct 2017 #13

Whatever it cost, they got a great ROI HipChick Oct 2017 #14

Absolutely. And it may not have cost that much. Hackers and social media are not expensive. Irish_Dem Oct 2017 #15

dhill926

(16,339 posts)

1. after due process and all....

Reply to HipChick (Original post)

Fri Oct 13, 2017, 06:57 PM

Oct 2017

lock the fucker up...

dalton99a

(81,488 posts)

2. Kick.

Reply to HipChick (Original post)

Fri Oct 13, 2017, 06:58 PM

Oct 2017

Eliot Rosewater

(31,112 posts)

3. Putin sent him to seal the deal. Trump is so dumb that he didnt know who Manafort really was but

Reply to HipChick (Original post)

Fri Oct 13, 2017, 06:58 PM

Oct 2017

didnt matter because he owes Vlad 1.7 billion dollars so he did what he was told.

Not Ruth

(3,613 posts)

4. What is the nature of the $1.7 billion? First time that I have heard that specific a number.

Reply to Eliot Rosewater (Reply #3)

Fri Oct 13, 2017, 07:12 PM

Oct 2017

Enoki33

(1,587 posts)

11. If memory is correct the Wall Street Journal not long

Reply to Not Ruth (Reply #4)

Fri Oct 13, 2017, 08:59 PM

Oct 2017

ago listed the total liabilities of all dotard’s companies as $1.8 B. That might have been the source.

George II

(67,782 posts)

10. He's a good man, a fine man.

Reply to Eliot Rosewater (Reply #3)

Fri Oct 13, 2017, 08:27 PM

Oct 2017

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)

5. Was not the Wilbur Ross the

Reply to HipChick (Original post)

Fri Oct 13, 2017, 07:16 PM

Oct 2017

chief dude at this bank?

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)

6. Incarcerate republican treason weasels

Reply to HipChick (Original post)

Fri Oct 13, 2017, 07:20 PM

Oct 2017

Lock them up for the sake of America

BiminiTwisted

(102 posts)

7. NBC has more yet to come I'm sure, FF45 has been targeting them this week, and

Reply to HipChick (Original post)

Fri Oct 13, 2017, 08:02 PM

Oct 2017

don't kid yourself, it wasn't because of the wanting more nukes story.

HipChick

(25,485 posts)

9. Yep...

Reply to BiminiTwisted (Reply #7)

Fri Oct 13, 2017, 08:17 PM

Oct 2017

iluvtennis

(19,858 posts)

8. Hadn't made that connection, but I think you're right

Reply to HipChick (Original post)

Fri Oct 13, 2017, 08:17 PM

Oct 2017

jmowreader

(50,557 posts)

12. If we were to make three lists of Trump's employees, friends and relatives...

Reply to HipChick (Original post)

Fri Oct 13, 2017, 09:33 PM

Oct 2017

and label them "Trump-connected person who is a crook," "Trump-connected person who is a general officer" and "Trump-connected person who is neither a general nor a crook," the list of crooks would be very long, the list of generals would be longer than it probably should be...and the third one would be blank.

Irish_Dem

(47,081 posts)

13. I wonder how much is cost Russia to steal the presidential election?

Reply to HipChick (Original post)

Fri Oct 13, 2017, 09:36 PM

Oct 2017

And since we are doing nothing about it, they will continue.
Also then wonder what the ongoing further costs will be to undermine American democracy.

HipChick

(25,485 posts)

14. Whatever it cost, they got a great ROI

Reply to Irish_Dem (Reply #13)

Fri Oct 13, 2017, 09:53 PM

Oct 2017

Irish_Dem

(47,081 posts)

15. Absolutely. And it may not have cost that much. Hackers and social media are not expensive.

Reply to HipChick (Reply #14)

Fri Oct 13, 2017, 10:02 PM

Oct 2017

And Putin is reported to be worth about $600 Billion. So it was total chump change to him.
Fabulous ROI as you point out. For not a lot of money he pulled off the crime of the century.
The undermining of American democracy.

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