and failure to report foreign bank accounts. this announcement has nothing to do with the president or the president s campaign or campaign activities. manafort pled not guilty, confined to house arrest in al exandrea, the master of shaping public passenger, attempted his own makeover through mr. downing. mr. manafort represented pro-european union campaigns. he was seeking to further democracy and to help the ukraine come closer to the united states and the eu. while manafort refused to cooperate, rick gates did, agreeing to a plea deal after additional charges of tax and bank fraud were filed in february 2018. manafort s one-time protege would cooperate with government prosecutors and testify against his former mentor. though he lost rick gates as an ally, manafort tried to contact
knew he was in desperate need of millions of cash, just to stay afloat. to that end, as prosecutors would later discover, manafort had been submitting fraudulent loan applications to several banks, which would ultimately net him $20 million in loans. you d think he could have just sold off some assets or changed his lifestyle to be spending less, but the fact that he didn t really shows just how much a part of his identity this high flying lifestyle had become. soon after joining the campaign, manafort reportedly e-mailed an intermediary for the russian oligarch still looking to know what happened to his nearly $19 million investment with manafort. once manafort started working for trump, there were messages that he sent back to make sure that he knew that he was now in this position of influence. and there s this phrase where
befriended an oligarch viewed as the proverbial golden goose. he was one who was close to vladimir putin. acquired wealth in the bloody battle for control of the country s aluminum industry in the 1990s. paul manafort helps out this man who is constantly, over the past couple of decades, seeking influence and access to the united states. in fact, before the 2008 presidential election, manafort arranged a meeting with him john mccain. at the time, manafort hoped to fight a major role in that campaign. when public reports revealed that presidential candidate john mccain met an oligarch close to putin, mccain hits the roof, and the curtains were paul manafort
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great again. manafort was a long time acquaintance of trump and even owned an apartment in new york s trump tower. he reached out to an intermediary for the trump campaign, and in spite of his financial straits, manafort offered to counsel the candidate for free. my sources tell me that manafort thought that if he could present himself as a peer to trump, an equal, someone of means and lived a lavish lifestyle, that trump might see him more as someone willing to take advice from. in march of 2016, trump asked manafort to join the campaign. i ve known trump of 30 years, and when somebody started talking about the need to bring in additional people to deal with this process, friends from not the political realm, even, he listened, and then he reached out. manafort was back in the spotlight, but few around him