That's quite a demotion from President for Yanukovych.
So does Manafort deny having met with Konstantin Kilimnik in his book?
No, Konstantin Kilmnik was everyone's interpreter, Democrat Republican and everyone in between, I believe he said he interpreted for John Mccain, Podesta. He knew pretty much every nonUkranian speaker.honorentheos wrote: ↑Tue Dec 27, 2022 2:16 pmThat's quite a demotion from President for Yanukovych.
So does Manafort deny having met with Konstantin Kilimnik in his book?
Paul Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, was indicted on Monday with his longtime associate, Rick Gates, on charges of money laundering and making false statements to officials related to lobbying work in Ukraine.
The two men, who pleaded not guilty, are charged with setting up offshore bank accounts and making wire transfers from them to directly pay for goods, services and real estate in the United States. They are said to have done this without disclosing their foreign bank accounts or paying taxes on the income. The indictment lists more than 30 domestic and foreign entities that were involved in the plan.
Over a period of six years, the indictment indicates, Mr. Manafort made transfers totaling $6.4 million for real estate and more than $12 million for personal goods and services like clothing, vehicles and home improvement.
Total $18.5 million
Source: Federal court documents
Mr. Manafort and Mr. Gates are also accused of using the accounts to pay more than $2 million to two Washington lobbying firms on behalf of their Ukrainian clients — former President Viktor F. Yanukovych of Ukraine and his pro-Russia party — who they were not registered to represent. Mr. Manafort and Mr. Gates developed a cover story to distance themselves from their lobbying activity and mislead agents of the Justice Department who were investigating them, the indictment says.
In 2012, Mr. Manafort made wire transfers from the offshore accounts to purchase three properties in New York and Virginia, the charges say. The three homes and a fourth in the Hamptons are listed in the indictment as subject to forfeiture if he is charged with money laundering:
- Condo in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan.
- Brownstone in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn.
- House in Arlington, Va.
- House in the Hamptons, N.Y.
When Mr. Manafort later took out mortgages on two of these properties to obtain cash in the United States, he defrauded the institutions that loaned the money so he could borrow more at better rates, according to the indictment.
The indictment says that he purchased the Manhattan condo for $2.85 million and later used it as a rental property. It goes on to say that when he applied for a mortgage for the condo, he falsely claimed that it was a secondary home for his daughter and son-in-law so that he could get a sum larger than the loan available for a rental property. He received a $3.2 million loan.
Mr. Manafort purchased the Brooklyn brownstone for about $3 million, and he later was given a “construction loan” of $5 million, based on his promise that some of the money would go to increasing the home’s value. Instead, he told his tax preparer that it would allow him to pay back another mortgage in full, according to the indictment. It also says he used the money to make a down payment on another property in California.
No, he was a close associate of Manaforts who worked for a Russian oligarch while Manafort was Trump's campaign manager, and to whom Manafort was caught sharing campaign information.ajax18 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 27, 2022 2:55 pmNo, Konstantin Kilmnik was everyone's interpreter,honorentheos wrote: ↑Tue Dec 27, 2022 2:16 pm
That's quite a demotion from President for Yanukovych.
So does Manafort deny having met with Konstantin Kilimnik in his book?
Manafort was found guilty on five counts of filing false tax returns, two counts of bank fraud, and one count of failing to disclose a foreign bank account.
Yes I am. Why was he not indicted back in 2014 then? Even if guilty how many people spend years in solitary confinement and $10 million bail for failure to file a FARA application. Only 6 people have even been charged in over 100 years of this statutes existencecanpakes wrote: ↑Tue Dec 27, 2022 4:48 pmManafort was found guilty on five counts of filing false tax returns, two counts of bank fraud, and one count of failing to disclose a foreign bank account.
The FBI began its investigation of Manafort in 2014, well prior to his work on Trump’s behalf.
Are you suggesting that he was being ‘persecuted’ for his involvement with Trump, given what he was convicted of, and when the investigation began?