Aide hid payments from Ukraine party

[struggle4progress]

By Andrew Roth
March 21 at 6:08 AM

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

The new documents may revive questions about the ties between the Trump aide, Paul Manafort, and the party of the former president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, who has been in hiding in Russia since being overthrown by pro-Western protestors in 2014. He is wanted in Ukraine on corruption charges.

Manafort, who worked for Yanukovych’s Party of Regions for nearly a decade, resigned from Trump’s campaign in August after his name in connection with secret payments totaling $12.7 million by Yanukovych’s party. Manafort has denied receiving those payments, listed in the party’s so-called “black ledger” ...

Leshchenko alleges that Manafort falsified an invoice to the Belize company in order to legitimize the $750,000 payment to himself ...

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

[LaydeeBug]

1. Notice how it says "Aide" like it's some low level interloper.

Were this a Democrat, it would have read, "Liberal Democrat of the Democratic Party laundered money offshore to help terrorists. Tune in to see how the Democratic Party wants to turn your children into terrorists"

[jpak]

2. Someone needs to yank Manafort's passport.

yup

[leftynyc]

3. Well, this would expain

Spicy's absurd statement that Manafort had "little to do with the campaign and was only there a short time". I saw CNN making mincemeat about that statement.

[boston bean]

4. Tad Devine also worked for Yanukovych.

something is rotten in Denmark.