there s lev and igor arrested by the fbi when they were reportedly on their way to vienna with one-way tickets out of this country. who s in vienna? both have reportedly been financed in recent activities by a ukrainian billionaire named dmitry firtash. do you want back story on dmitry firtash, how he got to be important in that part of the world, why he might factor into all of this now, i should mention i did just write a book about it. i wrote this new book, blowout, that is just out. chapter 19 in my book is kind of about this which is weird and uncanny, but it s true. and the basic store of him is that the putin government installed dmitry firtash in ukraine in the middle of a series of deals that were designed to make him into a billionaire, designed to make him the dominant player in the ukrainian energy business which is very handy for russia that the guy who they installed in that job would be running the ukrainian energy business right next door. u.s. prosecutors said he s
secretary of the army. koch allegedly loaned money under false pretenses. gate detailed how broke paul manafort was when he joined the trump campaign in march 2016 working at the time for no salary. gates said paul manafort s consulting firm had no clients then. and that they were at the time trying to secure another political consulting contract in ukraine. but had not yet been able to. in a 2015 e mail exchange. paul manafort was frustrated. wtf, manafort wrote to gates. how could i be blind saided like this, this after learning that taxes he was due to pay were much higher than he had anticipated. gates admitted he also supplied false information to banks in order to help paul manafort secure bank loans. gates testified that manafort made more than $5 million between 2011 and 2012. doing consulting work for ukrainian billionaire. gates went into detail.
stephen cox become secretary. he detailed how broke he was when he joined the trump campaign in march 2016 working at the time for no salary. he said his consulting firm had no clients there and was trying to secure a contract in ukraine. manafort was clearly frustrated, wtf manafort wrote to gates. how can i be blind-sided like this, manafort says. gates admitted that he also supplied false information to banks in order to help manafort secure bank loans. gates testified that manafort made more than $5 million between 2011 and 2012. doing consulting work for a ukrainian billionaire. gates went into detail about how
up until 2012 for consulting work for a ukrainian billionaire. gates went into detail about how shell companies were used to move money into hidden accounts in cyprus. in one instance, according to gates, a payment supported lobbying in the united states. gates stated that manafort reported some of the payments to u.s. tax officials as loans. though they were, in fact, income. adding that manafort was, quote, trying to decrease his taxable income. prosecutors demonstrated that manafort directed these activities through e-mails. there were hundreds of these gates said in court. adding, quote, typical prak us the wiz mr. manafort to send me a list of wire requests. gates admitted that he used information provided by manafort to create invoices or fake amounts of money for wire transfers but the money never actually went to the vendors. instead, it went to the banks. the purpose of this, according to gates, so that the wire