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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,711 posts)
Tue Mar 21, 2017, 06:41 PM Mar 2017

***BREAKING***New documents show Trump aide laundered payments from party with Moscow ties. [View all]



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KIEV, Ukraine — A Ukrainian lawmaker released new financial documents Tuesday allegedly showing that a former campaign chairman for President Trump laundered payments from the party of a disgraced ex-leader of Ukraine using offshore accounts in Belize and Kyrgyzstan.

The new documents, if legitimate, stem from business ties between the Trump aide, Paul Manafort, and the party of former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, who enjoyed Moscow’s backing while he was in power. He has been in hiding in Russia since being overthrown by pro-Western protesters in 2014, and is wanted in Ukraine on corruption charges.

The latest documents were released just hours after the House Intelligence Committee questioned FBI Director James B. Comey about possible coordination between the Trump campaign and Moscow. The hearing that also touched on Manafort’s work for Yanukovych’s party in Ukraine.

Comey declined to say whether the FBI is coordinating with Ukraine on an investigation of the alleged payments to Manafort.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/new-documents-say-trump-aide-hid-payments-from-pro-moscow-ukraine-party/2017/03/21/92ec85f2-0e11-11e7-9d5a-a83e627dc120_story.html?tid=pm_pop&utm_term=.2037f8e78a1e
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The sleaze in ths admin runs so deep gopiscrap Mar 2017 #1
It really does, there's so much fraud/crime going on, it's almost impossible Kimchijeon Mar 2017 #2
The irony of the Con's campaign screaming 'lock her up' malaise Mar 2017 #3
It's projection. It always was and always will be, with the Trump cabal. Hekate Mar 2017 #4
I can't wait for the tax returns - then it's game over malaise Mar 2017 #6
Tweety time... DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2017 #9
I'm betting that Tweety is going to go all gaga over malaise Mar 2017 #11
Tweety just said that's Merrick Garland's seat. DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2017 #15
That was amazing malaise Mar 2017 #16
Tweety gives one day and takes away the next. It's just a game to him. yardwork Mar 2017 #20
That's why his commentary surprised me today malaise Mar 2017 #22
If you watch the video Tony Montana could beat a conspiracy rap but not a money laundering one. DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2017 #7
Yep. I actually think that just about every thing that Trump has ever said Lucinda Mar 2017 #17
LOCK HIM UP! LOCK THEM ALL UP!! NurseJackie Mar 2017 #5
ROFL malaise Mar 2017 #8
Love that gif! NastyRiffraff Mar 2017 #23
He didn't really have a job with the campaign. He maybe held a cardboard sign outside a trump rally Warren DeMontague Mar 2017 #10
Spicer is one of my favorite characters in this remake of The Great Dictator Lucinda Mar 2017 #19
No worries - Paulie's got some backup now: Leghorn21 Mar 2017 #12
WaPo kicks and scores! The ball is in the NYT court now. McCamy Taylor Mar 2017 #13
Most corrupt administration ever mcar Mar 2017 #14
The drips are beginning to coalesce volstork Mar 2017 #18
I think it's time for hip boots now. The drips are becoming a deluge. Lucinda Mar 2017 #21
The Comey hearing yesterday was a geyser NastyRiffraff Mar 2017 #24
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