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American and Ukrainian officials are pushing to question President Donald Trumps former campaign chairman Paul Manafort in separate investigations related to his work for a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine once headed by that countrys disgraced former president Viktor Yanukovych, Politico reports.
American and Ukrainian officials are pushing to question President Donald Trumps former campaign chairman Paul Manafort in separate investigations related to his work for a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine once headed by that countrys disgraced former president Viktor Yanukovych.
Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.) told POLITICO that Manafort would certainly be at the top of my list to testify before the House Intelligence Committees ongoing investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
The panel held its first public hearing Monday, featuring hours of testimony from FBI Director James Comey, who publicly acknowledged for the first time that his agency is investigating the possibility of Russian coordination with members of Trumps campaign team. Of all of the characters in and around the Trump campaign and administration, Paul Manaforts relationships with Russians are by far the longest-standing and the deepest, said Himes, who is a member of the committee. And he has some pretty unsavory contacts.
At the same time, an investigative department within a top Ukrainian law enforcement agency intends to ask the U.S. Department of Justice for help questioning Manafort about his possible relationship to Yanukovych during the 2014 riots that drove Yanukovych from power, according to Serhiy Gorbatyuk, the head of the department for special investigations within the General Prosecutors Office of Ukraine.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/paul-manafort-trump-ukraine-russia-236286
woodsprite
(11,923 posts)Somebody may try to 'get rid of the evidence' by offing him during travel or 'disappearing' him while he's away.
C_U_L8R
(45,019 posts)He may be hiding in the back somewhere
wishstar
(5,271 posts)during the transition when media covered the endless parade of visitors and those milling about the lobby where he was spotted often since he has an apartment there. He also owns a home in Palm Beach Gardens.