Jan 18, 2019 · Manafort — President Donald Trump’s former campaign chief, who pleaded guilty last year to charges related to his work in Ukraine — helped the Ukrainian government hire Skadden, Arps, Slate,...
Feb 21, 2018 · A lawyer who previously worked with Paul Manafort, Trump’s former campaign manager, has pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, marking another major development in the investigation into possible ...
Apr 03, 2018 · Van der Zwaan was a lawyer in London for U.S. law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in 2012 when he carried out work for the Ukrainian government through Gates and Manafort. More than a...
Mar 01, 2019 · Manafort is one of seven former Trump associates and senior aides who have been charged by Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team, which is investigating Russian interference in the 2016...
Mar 10, 2019 · The connection between Fabrizio, Manafort and the money sent to Manafort’s lawyers from MMSC is only the latest chapter in a relationship between the two men that dates back more than 20 years....
Manafort’s decision to take a volunteer job at the top of Trump’s presidential campaign drew national attention to his lobbying career. By the summer of 2017, Manafort was the target of multiple investigations into his personal finances, campaign work and foreign lobbying.
According to the account of the individual who appears to be Fabrizio, Rebuilding America Now agreed to pay Fabrizio’s firm a surprisingly high commission rate, 6 percent, on its media buys during Trump’s 2016 campaign.
In May 2017, six months after Trump had won the presidency and Rebuilding America Now had stopped buying ads on TV, campaign finance records show that Fabrizio’s ad-buying firm, MMSC, made three large cash transfers to Rebuilding America Now.
Manafort Goes to Ukraine. Manafort, the son of a wealthy Connecticut builder, had worked as a lobbyist and as an aide for Republican presidents before his stint in Ukraine. He had built a reputation for repackaging controversial foreign leaders for U.S. consumption.
A Party of Regions accounting book, dubbed the "black ledger" and obtained in August by Ukraine's National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU), allegedly shows that Manafort was paid $12.7 million in cash by the party between Nov. 2007 and Oct. 2012.
Ukraine should not be a member of any military bloc, he said, because "this is the view of the Ukrainian people." During a meeting with the U.S. ambassador, he said he wanted to "improve cooperation with the U.S. and NATO, but was also interested in "restoring" relations with Russia.
Yanukovych lost the 2007 race. After the loss, both he and his party tacked East with overt anti-NATO rhetoric, a response to Yushchenko's push for Ukraine to join NATO. Opposition deputies use flags and balloons to protest NATO integration on February 12, 2008 in the Ukrainian parliament in Kiev.
As a young man, Yanukovych had been convicted of robbery and assault. John Herbst, who was U.S. ambassador to Ukraine from 2004 to 2006, said the motivations of the oligarchs who ran the party seemed uncomplicated.
Weeks before the December 2004 presidential "re"-election, a pro-Russian Ukrainian billionaire and major Party of Regions donor named Rinat Akhmetov asked Manafort to help with Yanukovych's troubled campaign. Yanukovych lost the do-over election to Yushchenko, but Manafort won a job he would keep for a decade.
ambassador that he got his start in business with the permission of a Russian crime lord, according to a leaked cable, is under federal indictment in the Northern District of Illinois for bribery. He is under arrest in Austria pending his extradition to the U.S.
In a July 31 interview on NBC's "Meet the Press, Manafort was asked about changes that were made to the Republican Party platform in the committee meetings that were held before the convention.
May 19, 2016. Manafort was promoted to campaign chairman and chief strategist on May 19, effectively taking full command at that point. This move came as it became clearer that Trump was the likely presumptive GOP presidential nominee. Two days prior, on May 17, the Trump team reached a fundraising agreement with the Republican National Committee.
Manafort was "volunteering his considerable insight and expertise because of his belief that Mr. Trump is the right person for these difficult times," a news release from the Trump campaign said at the time. Paul Manafort, former Trump campaign manager, to surrender to feds in connection to the Russia probe.
At a meeting April 16, Manafort laid out a vision for the Trump campaign that included increasing spending, hiring more staffers and redefining their roles, sources told ABC News at the time.
14, The New York Times reported that Manafort's name appears on a list of so-called black ledger accounts made by the since-toppled Ukrainian president amounting to $12.7 million from 2007 to 2012. Manafort released a statement that day denying any wrongdoing.
The drama reached a tipping point June 20 when Lewandowski was fired. Though Lewandowski didn't give a reason for his dismissal, he did say he was no longer running the show leading up to his dismissal. "Paul Manafort has been in operational control of the campaign since April 7,” Lewandowski told The Associated Press on the day he was fired. ...
18 that Manafort's firm had lobbied in the United States on behalf of the ruling Ukrainian political party even though Manafort did not disclose his work as a foreign agent, as mandated by federal law.