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| Secret Ledger in Ukraine Lists Cash for Donald Trump’s Campaign Chief | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Aug 14 2016, 11:32 PM (848 Views) | |
| Mr. Tik | Aug 14 2016, 11:32 PM Post #1 |
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KIEV, Ukraine — On a leafy side street off Independence Square in Kiev is an office used for years by Donald J. Trump’s campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, when he consulted for Ukraine’s ruling political party. His furniture and personal items were still there as recently as May. And Mr. Manafort’s presence remains elsewhere here in the capital, where government investigators examining secret records have found his name, as well as companies he sought business with, as they try to untangle a corrupt network they say was used to loot Ukrainian assets and influence elections during the administration of Mr. Manafort’s main client, former President Viktor F. Yanukovych. Handwritten ledgers show $12.7 million in undisclosed cash payments designated for Mr. Manafort from Mr. Yanukovych’s pro-Russian political party from 2007 to 2012, according to Ukraine’s newly formed National Anti-Corruption Bureau. Investigators assert that the disbursements were part of an illegal off-the-books system whose recipients also included election officials. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/15/us/politics/paul-manafort-ukraine-donald-trump.html?_r=1 |
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You may be a conservative republican..if you are pro life until you get your mistress knocked up | |
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| Harambe4Trump | Aug 14 2016, 11:46 PM Post #2 |
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Yawn. |
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Skipping leg day is the equivalent of a woman having an abortion. You're ashamed of it, and it was probably unnecessary. #MAGA #wallsnotwars | |
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| Mr. Tik | Aug 14 2016, 11:50 PM Post #3 |
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I was going to call it a night, and then this happened. See the image below? ![]() That’s a tweet from Corey Lewandowski, Trump’s ex-campaign manager, about a just-published NY Times exposé on Trump’s current campaign manager Paul Manafort. That's right, Trump's previous CM is ratting out his current CM. People, this kind of thing just doesn’t happen during presidential elections. But then again, it seems like a lot of the rules just don’t apply this year. Wow. Anyway, the exposé itself is incredible, and I recommend it to you. Here are just a few bullet points from it: • Paul Manafort, Trump’s current campaign manager, has previously worked for Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos in the 1980’s. And his most recent hi-profile client was former Ukrainian President Viktor F. Yanukovych, who was deposed in a popular uprising and fled to Russia. • Before he fled to Russia Mr. Yanukovych and his Party of Regions relied heavily on the advice of Mr. Manafort and his firm, who helped them win several elections. • During that period, Mr. Manafort never registered as a foreign agent with the United States Justice Department — as required of those seeking to influence American policy on behalf of foreign clients — although one of his subcontractors did. • After Yanukovych fled the country, a National Anti-Corruption Bureau was created. • During investigations, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau found a handwritten ledger of cash payments in the former Party of Regions headquarters. They also found two safes filled with $100 bills. • Paul Manafort’s name appears 22 times in the ledger, with cash payments totaling nearly $13 million. It is unclear if Mr. Manafort actually received the money. His lawyer insists he did not. • Investigators have said that these payments were all part of an illegal off-the-books system whose recipients also included elected officials. • Vitaliy Kasko, a former senior official with the general prosecutor’s office in Kiev said, “It’s impossible to imagine a person would look at this and think, ‘Everything is all right.” • After Yanukovych fled the country, Manafort continued working in Ukraine, “helping allies of the ousted president and others form a political bloc that opposed the new pro-Western administration.” • The accusation is also being made that Manafort was involved in, “a network of offshore companies that government investigators and independent journalists in Ukraine have said was used to launder public money and assets purportedly stolen by cronies of the government.” • According to the NY Times, “The role of the offshore companies in business dealings involving Mr. Manafort came to light because of court filings in the Cayman Islands and in a federal court in Virginia related to an investment fund, Pericles Emerging Markets. Mr. Manafort and several partners started the fund in 2007, and its major backer was Mr. Deripaska, the Russian mogul, to whom the State Department has refused to issue a visa, apparently because of allegations linking him to Russian organized crime, a charge he has denied.” • Ukrainian company records give no indication that Mr. Manafort has formally dissolved the local branch of his company in Ukraine. There’s more, but I think you get the idea. And can I just point out the obvious here? Can you even begin to imagine the s**tstorm that would materialize if similar information was exposed about HRC’s campaign manager? In fact if this story were about someone Clinton worked with 20 years ago Republicans would be lining up on Capitol Hill to set their hair on fire. It will be more than a little interesting to see how they react to this now that it’s one of their own. And the meltdown continues… https://www.facebook.com/michael.arnovitz.3/posts/1121171831281555 Edited by Mr. Tik, Aug 14 2016, 11:51 PM.
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You may be a conservative republican..if you are pro life until you get your mistress knocked up | |
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| Mr. Tik | Aug 15 2016, 12:13 AM Post #4 |
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You may be a conservative republican..if you are pro life until you get your mistress knocked up | |
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| Robert Stout | Aug 15 2016, 04:14 AM Post #5 |
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The uprising against Yanukovych was extremely popular with the CIA...The CIA helped the current gangsters and warlords running Ukraine to establish the National Anti-Corruption Bureau, and taught them how to create evidence out of thin air...What is lacking is bank transfer records showing Manafort received millions....The difference is between unelected politically correct regimes of crooks and elected non-politically correct regimes of crooks....Ukraine is another feather in Obama's cap of incompetent foreign policy, in service to America's unintelligent CIA and its masters............
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| Jesus can raise the dead, but he can't fix stupid | |
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| Dem4life | Aug 20 2016, 06:23 PM Post #6 |
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Ukraine Investigators Release Files on Trump Campaign Chairman Who Resigned http://abcnews.go.com/International/ukrainian-investigators-release-documents-mentioning-trump-campaign-chairman/story?id=41507751 Ukraine’s state anti-corruption agency has published what it says are scans of every mention of Paul Manafort’s name in so-called “black accounts” linked to the country's toppled president Viktor Yanukovych. The accounts prompted questions about Manafort's previous work in Ukraine and his links to the former president, who fled the country in disgrace in 2014 and is now being investigated for corruption. The controversy may have played a role in Manafort's resignation today as Trump's campaign chairman. The so-called “black accounts” are handwritten ledgers that Ukrainian investigators say appear to be a record of illegal off-the-books payments linked to Yanukovych’s political party. They are at the center of a corruption investigation there. The presence of Manafort’s name in the ledgers was first reported by The New York Times earlier this week. Late Thursday, Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau released scans of 22 entries from the ledgers where Manafort’s name appears. In the scans published on the bureau’s website, the words “Paul Manafort” can be seen written in Cyrillic lettering alongside records of payments. The bureau says the payments associated with Manafort add up to over $12.7 million between 2007 and 2012. The payments listed range from a small amount of $4,632 for purchasing “7 personal computers,” to $3.4 million for what is recorded as a “Paul Manafort contract.” A statement from the Anti-Corruption Bureau stressed that the presence of Manafort’s name in the ledgers did not mean he had necessarily received the cash amounts listed “because the signatures that appear in the column of recipients could belong to other people.” |
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