dmytro firtash also at one point tried to goen in on a big busis deal with manafort. they were going to build a big tower in new york city, a bulgari tower. it led to court proceedings that produced lurid details about manafort and business dealings and his partnership with firtash and the accusations that new york city real estate were being used by this crowd essentially as a laundromat of dirty money from the former soviet union. i mean, u.s. prosecutors say firtash is an upper-echelon associate of russian organized crime. he denies that, but that is what u.s. prosecutors say. for years he has been the primary economic and political aje agent of the kremlin in ukrainian politics and economics. and looking back on it, it s sort of insane that somebody, paul manafort, financially linked to a guy like that, would be hired to become the campaign chairman of a presidential campaign. at a time that we now know russia was doing everything it could to try to help his candidate get elected p
firtash was one of the major funders of the pro-putin political party that paid paul manafort all those millions of dollars that paul manafort received while he was working in ukraine. dmitry firtash also at one point tried to go in on a big business deal with manafort. they were going to build a big new luxury tower in new york city, a bulgari tower. that deal never happened, but it led to court proceedings that produced some of the most lurid details about manafort and his business dealings and his partnership with firtash and the accusations that the new york city real estate were being used by this crowd essentially as a laundromat of dirty money from the former soviet union. i mean, u.s. prosecutors say firtash is an upper-echelon associate of russian organized crime. he denies that, but that is what u.s. prosecutors say. for years he has been the primary economic and political agent of the kremlin in ukrainian politics and economics. and looking back on it, it s sort of insane th
dmitry take a cut of all of it. so, firtash was making billions of dollars a year for that. as a sort of hostess gift thank you for that arrangement, firtash in turn used some of his money to prop up pro-russia political parties in ukraine. pro-kremlin political parties in cr ukraine. pro-kremlin politicians including paying for paul manafort to run the party of regions and get victor yanukovych installed as ukraine s president. manafort reportedly owed millions of dollars to those two guys and the reason he owed them money is because of various business entanglements. he got involved with each of them. he had separate business deals with each of them. but there was one deal that they had in common. a supposed plan to spend almost a billion dollars turning a park avenue hotel site into a new bulgari tower in new york city. that one actually involved manafort and both of those kremlin-connected oligarchs.