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TomCADem

(17,378 posts)
Sat Aug 20, 2016, 01:25 AM Aug 2016

Ukraine Investigators Release Files on Trump Campaign Chairman Who Resigned

Source: ABC News

Ukraine’s state anti-corruption agency has published what it says are scans of every mention of Paul Manafort’s name in so-called “black accounts” linked to the country's toppled president Viktor Yanukovych.

The accounts prompted questions about Manafort's previous work in Ukraine and his links to the former president, who fled the country in disgrace in 2014 and is now being investigated for corruption. The controversy may have played a role in Manafort's resignation today as Trump's campaign chairman.

The so-called “black accounts” are handwritten ledgers that Ukrainian investigators say appear to be a record of illegal off-the-books payments linked to Yanukovych’s political party. They are at the center of a corruption investigation there. The presence of Manafort’s name in the ledgers was first reported by The New York Times earlier this week.

Late Thursday, Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau released scans of 22 entries from the ledgers where Manafort’s name appears. In the scans published on the bureau’s website, the words “Paul Manafort” can be seen written in Cyrillic lettering alongside records of payments. The bureau says the payments associated with Manafort add up to over $12.7 million between 2007 and 2012.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/International/ukrainian-investigators-release-documents-mentioning-trump-campaign-chairman/story?id=41507751



Nice to know that the Republicans had their foreign policy platform written by a lobbyist for Russian interests.
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Ukraine Investigators Release Files on Trump Campaign Chairman Who Resigned (Original Post) TomCADem Aug 2016 OP
It be worth going to town on the fact that the changed OnDoutside Aug 2016 #1
Trump campaign guts GOP’s anti-Russia stance on Ukraine: LeftRant Aug 2016 #2
Republicans have so many "friends" in dark places with dark money... RapSoDee Aug 2016 #3
And here is the "rest of the story"...the reason Paulie had to get outta town... downeastdaniel Aug 2016 #4
Since the fbi seems to be looking in to it. duncang Aug 2016 #5

OnDoutside

(19,908 posts)
1. It be worth going to town on the fact that the changed
Sat Aug 20, 2016, 02:56 AM
Aug 2016

Ukraine policy position still remains part of the Republican platform.

RapSoDee

(421 posts)
3. Republicans have so many "friends" in dark places with dark money...
Sat Aug 20, 2016, 07:10 AM
Aug 2016

...doing dark things.This is apparently what they mean when they talk about their "Republican values."



duncang

(1,907 posts)
5. Since the fbi seems to be looking in to it.
Sat Aug 20, 2016, 08:00 AM
Aug 2016

I wonder if it was part of the intel briefing dipshit got. If he was told they were looking at manafart. Then dipshit warned him about it. It would look really bad if the fbi came in to the campaign office and took off manafart. So they wanted to get him away as fast as possible.

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