Manafort, a career consultant for international strongman wrote a memo offering his services according to new york times in which manafort offered to work for free. recent court filings accused manafort and rick gates of being tied up in a multimillion dollar money laundering scheme with prorussian interests. they have pleaded not. on march 10th, russian hackers sent phishing e-mails in attempt to compromise the inboxes of democratic party operatives tied to hillary clinton according to associated press. within nine days they would have access to at least 50,000 e-mails of campaign chairman onpodesta. in a meeting with the washington post on march 21st, trump announced members of his foreign policy team. george papadopoulos. he s an oil and energy consultant. excellent guy. that very week papadopoulos met in london with a russian