And Manafort was attempting to trade a White House position to a banker for a $16 million loan. It must have been a Russian temp-agency that sent them to Trump. Maybe its local office was in Manafort's space in Trump Towers.
Note that Manafort was the one who brought us Pence -
How Donald Trump Finally Settled on Mike Pence
By ALEXANDER BURNS and MAGGIE HABERMAN JULY 15, 2016
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But Mr. Trump wrestled on Thursday with the final arrangements for a rollout. He expressed fury to campaign aides over news reports that his advisers were informing political allies of the Indiana governors selection, and bristled at the idea that he was locked into the choice.
In a phone call with members of the campaign leadership, Mr. Trump questioned whether Mr. Pence really was the right choice, and Paul Manafort, the campaign chairman, reiterated the case for choosing Mr. Pence, according to a person briefed on the call.
Reached by phone on Friday, Mr. Manafort said Mr. Trump had never wavered on Mr. Pence once the decision was made. Any queries about Mr. Pence as a political choice, he added, simply reflected Mr. Trumps loose conversational style.
Once he made the decision, nothing changed, Mr. Manafort said. Last night, the only issue from the time of the Nice tragedy to the time he got on a plane at around midnight was the details of how we rescheduled things.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/16/us/politics/mike-pence-donald-trump-vice-president.html