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Author: Raine    Date: 08/15/2016 13:13:54

Ignore the dog peeing on your legs....

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The NYT reports among many other things:
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.


This is Manafort’s Statement:
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riiiiight.....From the NYT piece:
The developments in Ukraine underscore the risky nature of the international consulting that has been a staple of Mr. Manafort’s business since the 1980s, when he went to work for the Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos. Before joining Mr. Trump’s campaign this spring, Mr. Manafort’s most prominent recent client was Mr. Yanukovych, who — like Mr. Marcos — was deposed in a popular uprising.

Before he fled to Russia two years ago, 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.

It is unclear if Mr. Manafort’s activities necessitated registering. If they were limited to advising the Party of Regions in Ukraine, he probably would not have had to. But he also worked to burnish his client’s image in the West and helped Mr. Yanukovych’s administration draft a report defending its prosecution of his chief rival, Yulia V. Tymoshenko, in 2012.


Seems totally legit.







.....

Raine
 

24 comments (Latest Comment: 08/15/2016 20:24:39 by Mondobubba)
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Comment by Mondobubba on 08/15/2016 13:17:31
Nice try, with the non-existent pay for play scandal at the Clinton Foundation, Paul. Thanks for playing "Grasping at Straws!"

Comment by BobR on 08/15/2016 13:23:18
Manafort - helping narcissistic dictators get elected for 30 years!

Comment by Mondobubba on 08/15/2016 13:25:04
Quote by BobR:
Manafort - helping narcissistic dictators get elected for 30 years!


Manafort your man if you are kelptocrat!

Comment by Raine on 08/15/2016 13:25:05
Quote by Mondobubba:
Nice try, with the non-existent pay for play scandal at the Clinton Foundation, Paul. Thanks for playing "Grasping at Straws!"
interstly enough, Mr Pauly Ukraine doesn't seem to know the google.

I typed in this: NYT Clinton foundation articles
About 6,900,000 results (0.64 seconds)

Comment by Will in Chicago on 08/15/2016 13:50:02
Good morning, bloggers!!

Please keep my cousin Charlie in your thoughts and prayers. He fell at home yesterday and had a brain bleed. The doctors are confident that he will be fine after he has surgery later today.

Comment by Scoopster on 08/15/2016 14:07:55
Mornin' all!
The point isn't whether the payments are illegal or not. In fact, that's probably the most legal thing going in this mess. The point is this person is a hired gun who for 30 years has worked specifically to elect fascist authoritarian assholes and their lackeys.

Comment by Raine on 08/15/2016 14:13:10
Quote by Scoopster:
Mornin' all!
The point isn't whether the payments are illegal or not. In fact, that's probably the most legal thing going in this mess. The point is this person is a hired gun who for 30 years has worked specifically to elect fascist authoritarian assholes and their lackeys.
Exactly.


Joy Reid has been hammering that point this morning on twitter.


He's worked for ANTI WESTERN NATIONS.



Comment by wickedpam on 08/15/2016 14:40:06
Morning

Comment by Raine on 08/15/2016 15:02:57
Comment by Mondobubba on 08/15/2016 15:09:09
Comment by Raine on 08/15/2016 15:17:05



Comment by wickedpam on 08/15/2016 15:26:34
Quote by Raine:




Words you never want to see from the media "It gets worse"

Comment by wickedpam on 08/15/2016 15:31:04
Quote by Mondobubba:



Boo!


NNNnnnoooooooo I love Larry Wilmore - he's better then the Daily Show now

Comment by TriSec on 08/15/2016 15:45:42
Hi all. TriSec back in the real world. I want a Dole Whip and Mickey waffles.

Comment by Mondobubba on 08/15/2016 16:02:37
Quote by TriSec:
Hi all. TriSec back in the real world. I want a Dole Whip and Mickey waffles.


Welcome home. As you know I am a helper. Here is a receipe for DIY Dole Whips.

Comment by Mondobubba on 08/15/2016 16:09:32
Comment by livingonli on 08/15/2016 17:24:47
I am wondering if on one level, Trump is deliberately tanking it and that his campaign is another way of getting money from the rubes like Trump University was. Because I think that the work of the Presidency is much more since Trump is probably just use to delegating to others and not actually doing work like a lot of CEO's.

But then again, Pence could be scarier since he's a Christian Dominionist and is all for bringing the religious right version of Sharia Law to the United States.

Comment by Scoopster on 08/15/2016 17:53:08
Comment by Raine on 08/15/2016 18:35:28
T-Rump is giving a speech about foreign policy.

Also, totally medicated.

Comment by BobR on 08/15/2016 18:37:28
Quote by Raine:
T-Rump is giving a speech about foreign policy.

Also, totally medicated.

I watched for about 20 seconds and the streaming comments were more insane than what tRump was saying

Comment by Mondobubba on 08/15/2016 19:45:41



You know what got mixed up in a FARA violation? Billy Carter. Remember that guy?

Comment by Scoopster on 08/15/2016 19:50:07
Quote by BobR:
Quote by Raine:
T-Rump is giving a speech about foreign policy.

Also, totally medicated.

I watched for about 20 seconds and the streaming comments were more insane than what tRump was saying

Yo what in the HELL is he talking about? Ideological purity tests to get a VISA??? Not even for citizenship, just to enter or leave the country.

He's out of his mother-lovin' mind.

Comment by Mondobubba on 08/15/2016 20:24:39
Mala, so, how about that Xanex ring in Prince William County?