appear to show that man a40 used his position to garner favor with russian billionaire and putin ally olag deripaska, who manafort was deeply indebted to, this according to excerpts released by the atlantic. just weeks after being hired by trump, manafort writes on april 11th, 2016, quote, i assume you have shown our friends my media coverage, right? konstantin responds, quote, absolutely. every article. manafort then asks, how do we use to get whole? has ovd operations seen? the initials ovd referring to dare abas caw, citing a source close to manafort. still, there s no evidence that he met with manafort last year or was aware of manafort s attempts to reach him. these e-mails are under scrutiny as investigators continue to look into whether the trump campaign had ties to russia. but congressional investigators