chairman, paul manafort, things appear to be getting worse quickly. after a handwritten ledger surfaced in ukraine last year suggesting that manafort had gotten off the books payments from a pro-russian political party, manafort at the time called claims that he had accepted such payments, quote and i m quoting him here unfounded, silly, and nonsensical. okay. but today the associated press reported that at least $1.2 million in payments listed in the ledger next to manafort s name were actually received by his consulting firm in the united states. this time around, manafort didn t deny his firm got the money, but he insisted the payments were legitimate. as for possibly registering as a foreign agency, his spokesperson said in a statement, quote, the work in question was widely known, concluded before mr. manafort began working with the trump campaign and was not conducted on behalf of the russian government. that s a very specific statement, we should know. former trump adviser c
accepted sucpayments, quote and i m quoting him here unfounded, silly, and nonsensical. okay. but today the associated press reported that at least $1.2 million in payments listed in the ledger next to manafort s name were actually received by his consulting firm in the united states. this time around, manafort didn t deny his firm got the money, but he insisted the payments were legitimate. as for possibly registering as a foreign agency, his spokesperson said in a statement, quote, the work in question was widely known, concluded before mr. manafort began working with the trump campaign and was not conducted on behalf of the russian government. that s a very specific statement, we should know. former trump adviser carter page, for his part, says the news the fbi got a secret warrant to monitor his communications as part of its investigation into possible collusion between the trump camp and the russians, quote, confirms all of my suspicions about unjustified politically motivated