Ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort got $10 million loan from sanctioned Russian oligarch

[DonViejo]

Source: The San Diego Union-Tribune




June 27, 2018 2:45 P.M.

A company controlled by beleaguered ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort received a $10 million loan from Oleg Deripaska, a Russian oligarch sanctioned by the U.S. government who has close ties to President Vladimir Putin, according to court records unsealed Wednesday.

The revelation was detailed in a search warrant application for Manafort’s Virginia home from last July that provides previously unknown context to the ex-Trump campaign official’s connections to the Kremlin.

The FBI agent who submitted the search warrant application wrote tax returns for Manafort’s company detailed the hefty loan from Deripaska. The application was approved, resulting in special counsel Robert Mueller obtaining important evidence for his case against Manafort.

The unsealed court filing, which was obtained by Reuters, does not make clear when Manafort got the loan or what it was for. A spokesman for Manafort did not return a request for comment.

Read more: http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/ny-news-trump-manafort-putin-russia-oligarch-20180627-story.html

[Achilleaze]

1. republican traitors sold out America

Lock them up

[BigmanPigman]

2. I wonder how much Putin and his pals

want him out of the picture since they won't be getting their money back from him personally? I doubt it is as big an issue with Russia/Putin as getting the sanctions removed.

[dawg day]

3. Didn't Manafort have another huge loan?

$14 million? And he sent a letter saying he was going to be Trump's campaign advisor and that could pay the debt? Who was that Russian lender?

[lagomorph777]

4. Yeah - I was thinking "Didn't we already hear this?" But it must have been another loan!

[C Moon]

5. Another law broken. That's part of being Republican now.