Former Trump campaign manager traveled to Cuba to meet 'Castro's son,' Senate report says BY NORA G
In early January 2017, when the Cuban government was looking for insights into President-elect Donald Trump, his former campaign chief, Paul Manafort, traveled to the island to meet with Castros son, according to a U.S. Senate report.
The recently released Senate Intelligence Committee report on Russias interference in the 2016 presidential election states that Manafort claimed the meeting was arranged by Brad Zackson, the former exclusive broker for the properties of Trumps late father, Fred Trump.
Manafort left the Trump campaign in August 2016, mired in scandal over his undisclosed work as a lobbyist for a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine. As a result of Special Counsel Robert Muellers investigation into the Trump campaigns ties to Russia, Manafort was sentenced to more than seven years in prison for tax and bank fraud. He is currently serving his sentence under house arrest.
ut in early January 2017, Manafort did not know that the FBI was investigating him.
On Jan. 15, just days before Trumps inauguration, Manafort emailed Kathleen T. McFarland, about to be confirmed as the deputy national security adviser in the new administration, the Mueller report says.
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