ZRX1200 wrote:Russian thugs?
You know he did work for a Ukrainian company right?
This is pathetic.
He owes Oleg Deripaska, a Russian thug, $10M...the Ukrainians Manafort worked for were fighting the Ukraine rebels...Manafort's Ukrainian clients were tied to Russia and Putin who wanted to bring the Ukraine back under Russian control...that is why Putin annexed Crimea, and why the world imposed the sanctions on Russia in the first place...
it was these sanctions that may be the quid, in a potential quid pro quo
Here's some background on Deripaska:
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/27/paul-manafort-mueller-russia-oleg-deripaska-680630
https://qz.com/1246547/the-us-is-sanctioning-26-big-name-russians-including-putins-sometime-son-in-law/