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by AGGELOS PETROPOULOS and RICHARD ENGEL
OCT 15 2017
Russian President Vladimir Putin with close personal friend -- Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska
LONDON — Paul Manafort, a former campaign manager for President Donald Trump, has much stronger financial ties to a Russian oligarch than have been previously reported. An NBC News investigation reveals that $26 million changed hands in the form of a loan between a company linked to Manafort and the oligarch, Oleg Deripaska, a billionaire with close ties to the Kremlin. The loan brings the total of their known business dealings to around $60 million over the past decade, according to financial documents filed in Cyprus and the Cayman Islands.
NBC News reported in June that the business relationship between Deripaska and Manafort began in 2007. According to The Wall Street Journal, they worked together to further Russian interests in Georgia. Manafort then went on to spend nearly a decade working as a consultant for a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine. Deripaska was described in a 2006 U.S. diplomatic cable as “among the 2-3 oligarchs Putin turns to on a regular basis.”
Manafort Had $60 Million Relationship With a Russian Oligarch
According to investigators, Russian oligarch and Putin crony Oleg Deripaska used Cyprus banks to launder millions in payments (euphemistically called loans) to Manafort. Some of the laundered funds were then transferred to a Delaware limited-liability corporation called Jesand LLC (which bears a strong resemblance to the names of Manafort’s daughters, Jessica and Andrea) and used to purchase a $2.5 million condo in New York in 2007.
Manafort is a Dirt Bag.....Time for the Feds to squeeze him...Make him talk....To help bring down trump
Manafort Had $60 Million Relationship With a Russian Oligarch
According to investigators, Russian oligarch and Putin crony Oleg Deripaska used Cyprus banks to launder millions in payments (euphemistically called loans) to Manafort. Some of the laundered funds were then transferred to a Delaware limited-liability corporation called Jesand LLC (which bears a strong resemblance to the names of Manafort’s daughters, Jessica and Andrea) and used to purchase a $2.5 million condo in New York in 2007.
More evidence that whatever Manafort was up to, he was up to long before he ever met Trump.
They're going to have to come up with something better than this.
They probably have more evidence against trump and his goons colluding with the Russians,...But Manafort is a good start...Time to squeeze him
More evidence that whatever Manafort was up to, he was up to long before he ever met Trump.
Yeah it's not like he was Trump's campaign manager or anything..
He did the job Kellyanne did, let's be honest, he was never an actual campaign manager.
He did the job Kellyanne did, let's be honest, he was never an actual campaign manager.
"Tick, tock, tick, tock"He did the job Kellyanne did, let's be honest, he was never an actual campaign manager.
Really?.....You going with that defense?.....He was trump's go to guy...The guy with the Russian connections
Yeah it's not like he was Trump's campaign manager or anything..
So..?
Manafort is in Deripaska's pocket who is in Putin's pocket.
Manafort was never in anyones pocket, he is a mercenary.
Mercenaries are in the pocket of whoever pays them the best, so the accusation of manafort being in the pocket of someone else is still valid.
Only so long as the money is getting paid. Notice how pretty much none of these stories talk about when this all happened, which is a really good clue that this relationship was a decade ago and irrelevant in the matter of Trump being elected, but the ends justify the means, the Elite Class will pretend otherwise all day long if the pretending gets them to where they want to go.
$60 million is not pocket change ... it buys a lifelong commitment.
So..?
The CIA, FBI, and NSA all say that Russia tried to influence our election on Trump's behalf. We know for a fact that Trump's campaign met with a Kremlin agent with the promise of getting dirt on Hillary. Trump's own National Security Adviser was compromised by the Russians, and even after being alerted to that, Trump sat on it doing nothing while Flynn kept sitting in on top secret briefings and continued to have access to the most classified information our government has until it was finally leaked to the press that he was compromised and Trump then was forced to fire him. Of course Trump had nothing but nice things to say about Putin during the entire campaign, despite Putin being a murderous dictator, and Trump even went so far as to compare the United States to Putin's murderous actions. Now we know that Trump's campaign manager and chief strategist, Manafort, had a 60 million dollar relationship with a Russian oligarch.
Yeah, nothing to see here. :roll:
Do you have a lifelong commitment to your bank and employer?
Do you do what they tell you to in the rest of your life?
If not then why should Manafort be different?
More evidence that whatever Manafort was up to, he was up to long before he ever met Trump.
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