U.S. Treasury officials have unearthed info on Paul Manafort's offshore financial transactions

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U.S. Treasury officials have unearthed information on former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort's offshore financial transactions through banks in Cyprus, per the AP:

Manafort was known to route financial transactions through Cyprus, and used Cypriot shell companies as part of a nearly $19 million deal with Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska to purchase Ukrainian cable television provider Black Sea Cable.

In one case, the AP found that a Manafort-linked company received a $1 million payment in October 2009 from a mysterious firm through the Bank of Cyprus. The $1 million payment left the account the same day — split in two, roughly $500,000 disbursements to accounts with no obvious owner.

Senate intel committee member Martin Heinrich (D-NM) told the AP revelations about Manafort's work were "serious and disturbing."

"This is not a drip, drip, drip," Democratic Rep. Jackie Speier of California, a member of the House intelligence committee, told the AP. "This is now dam-breaking with water flushing out with all kinds of entanglements."

https://www.apnews.com/d43ef4166da6400ab45140978854bbbb/AP-Exclusive:-US-probes-banking-of-ex-Trump-campaign-chief?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP
https://www.axios.com/manaforts-offshore-financial-transactions-come-to-light-2326178595.html



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[sharp_stick]

1. This prick is as dirty as they come

I would love see him perp-walked on national TV.

[madokie]

3. Its all about the money

with this one. He could care less who or what he hurts as long as he gets the money. IMO

[Mc Mike]

8. He's a whore, for sure. But I think he always serves a very real hard right agenda,

and big money and power brokers who have that agenda. Or he would have gone down decades ago.

[PoliticAverse]

2. "Follow the money". n/t

[duncang]

4. I wonder who in Russia do you have to talk to

To get a job in dipshit's white house?

[wishstar]

5. No wonder Trump and Spicer frantically lying about Manafort's involvement with Trump

Manafort will either be found dead or he will flee the country or he will got to jail for US tax evasion

[Mc Mike]

9. He can always move his hq to Dubai or UAE, like Blackwater and Halliburton. Nt

[kentuck]

6. He was a small player in the money laundering operation out of Cyprus.

Trump was a much bigger player, imo.

[dalton99a]

11. That is true.

[nikibatts]

7. Looks like Democrats dropped the ball on vetting 45's Executive appointments. They should have

staff working on all his appointments night and day.

[wishstar]

10. Yes, I never understood how Tillerson and Wilbur Ross got through confirmation so easily

esp. when Tillerson has no concern about promoting Democracy and human rights internationally that should be front and center of State Dept and Tillerson's lifelong concern only with oil deals favorable to Russian interests. It was well known about Wilbur Ross's direct ties with Deutsche Bank and Bank of Cyprus, both notorious for money laundering involving Russians

[kentuck]

12. Even Mnuchin passed muster.

The confirmation process failed miserably.

[superpatriotman]

13. Remember last years 'Panama Papers'?

I guarantee the whole 1%-er group of scumbags is involved in money laundering, tax evasion and worse.

[sunonmars]

14. You bet they are......no doubt about it.

[Mc Mike]

15. Bank of Cyprus should do commercials, featuring prominent repug party hacks.

"When I want to sell out my country to Russia, I use Bank of Cyprus."

Their customer service is second to none.