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Prosecutors in Ukraine Investigate Ex-Manafort Associates
NYT via MSN ^ | 22 Aug 2018 | Andrew E Kramer

Posted on 08/23/2018 2:20:41 AM PDT by blueplum

MOSCOW — Paul Manafort’s consulting clients before he joined the Trump campaign in 2016 — the leaders of Ukraine’s pro-Russian government — were overthrown in a popular uprising in 2014. Their problems continued this week. Mr. Manafort’s ... trial was “like a fairy tale where all the secrets are revealed,” Mustafa Nayyem, a former investigative journalist and member of Parliament, said in an interview on Wednesday. On Tuesday, shortly before a jury convicted Mr. Manafort, Ukraine’s prosecutor general, Yuri Lutsenko, opened a criminal investigation into Mr. Manafort’s former sponsors in Ukraine. By paying Mr. Manafort while simultaneously serving in government jobs, Mr. Lutsenko said, they are suspected of having violated Ukrainian laws against civil servants managing private businesses...{snip}

Working with the F.B.I., Ukrainian law enforcement began looking into Mr. Manafort’s generous remuneration soon after the overthrow of the previous government. Ukrainian officials first revealed evidence of secret payments made to Mr. Manafort in August 2016...

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: manafort; mueller; ukraine; yurilutsenko
not unexpected, eh?
1 posted on 08/23/2018 2:20:41 AM PDT by blueplum
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You can bet McCain is involved in this... he is very close with the current leaders of Ukraine... and they’re very bad people, even if they are anti-Russia.


2 posted on 08/23/2018 2:23:15 AM PDT by Cementjungle
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I’m sure “investigative journalist” Mustafa Nayyem, will get to the bottom of this. :-/


3 posted on 08/23/2018 3:11:24 AM PDT by Does so (No mention of "Brown Shirts" on this page?)
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To: blueplum

Russophobe nuts are cooperating with Mueller.

What a surprise.


4 posted on 08/23/2018 3:14:13 AM PDT by granada
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Ukraine, one of the most corrupt countries in the world.


5 posted on 08/23/2018 3:28:16 AM PDT by McGruff
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Russophobe nuts are cooperating with Mueller.

What a surprise.

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I’m shocked! Shocked to find that gambling is going on in here. How much did Biden’s boy get by the way?


6 posted on 08/23/2018 5:55:37 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (If the Sloth were a Honeybadger he'd set some Eagles on the Weasels.)
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That investigation started 2 years before Manafort became Trump’s campaign manager. Ukraine claims Manafort stole money from them and are trying to get it back.


7 posted on 08/23/2018 8:04:05 AM PDT by Krosan
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when is Biden and Clintons turn at bat...???


8 posted on 08/23/2018 8:14:12 AM PDT by zzwhale (QUAL TIME)
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