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Kypros Chrysostomides is one of Cypruss most elite lawyers, a wine connoisseur who boasts he was decorated by the French government and received the Grand Cross of the Order of the Phoenix from Greece, one of that countrys highest honors.
But to disgraced American political operative Paul Manafort, he was known as Dr. K., the fix-it man.
Chrysostomides set up more than a dozen shell companies in Cyprus for Manafort and Manaforts former associate Rick Gates. Through those companies, the two American lobbyists received payments for political consultancy work in Ukraine and wired more than $30 million, some of which was used to make various purchases in the United States, while avoiding U.S. taxes. Overall, Manaforts companies shifted more than $75 million through offshore accounts.
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Paul Manafort, then-campaign manager for U.S. President Donald Trump, at the Republican National Convention in 2016.
Credit: ZUMA Press, Inc. / Alamy Stock Photo
Bank accounts for the shell companies that Chrysostomides created funneled payments to the United States from offshore businesses of political allies of ex-Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych whom Manafort and Gates referred to as Big Guy, or BG. The transfer requests were sent directly to Chrysostomides law firm in Nicosia, an address that was also the headquarters for all of the shell companies, according to Gates testimony at Manaforts August 2018 trial in U.S. federal court on charges of fraud and financial crimes.
[link:https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/the-curious-case-of-dr-k-and-mr-chrysostomides|
Botany
(70,594 posts)MIKE PENCE COULD BE THE NEXT PRESIDENT AND HE WAS HANDPICKED BY PAUL MANAFORT
So why did Putin want Pence as V.P.?
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Mother have Mercy !
TheBlackAdder
(28,225 posts).
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Andy823
(11,495 posts)behind trump, there are only a few, very few, that are smiling, the rest don't look happy at all.
QED
(2,749 posts)45 has hired actors in the past to sit there, to cheer him.
leftieNanner
(15,173 posts)Donnie is bought and paid for.
Sneederbunk
(14,308 posts)Hekate
(90,847 posts)Saviolo
(3,283 posts)I can't recommend this podcast enough:
Part 1:
https://www.behindthebastards.com/podcasts/no-matter-how-much-you-hate-paul-manafort-you-should-hate-him-more-and-heres-why.htm
Part 2:
https://www.behindthebastards.com/podcasts/part-two-no-matter-how-much-you-hate-paul-manafort-you-should-hate-him-more-and-heres-why.htm
LiberalLovinLug
(14,178 posts)Maybe a dumb question but
Is he going to lose that money? Or is it sitting pretty in an offshore account for his family to use, or himself once he gets out?