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'''Paul Manafort''' is an American lobbyist, political consultant, lawyer, and convicted felon.
 
'''Paul Manafort''' is an American lobbyist, political consultant, lawyer, and convicted felon.
  
In 2017 [[Daniel Hopsicker]] wrote that "New evidence indicates that [[Oleg Deripaska]], the Russian billionaire who paid $10 million a year to Paul Manafort between 2004 and 2009".<ref>http://www.madcowprod.com/2017/03/31/russian-oligarch-election-probe-linked-drug-cartel/</ref>
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==Russian connections==
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In 2017 [[Daniel Hopsicker]] wrote that "New evidence indicates that [[Oleg Deripaska]], the Russian billionaire who paid $10 million a year to Paul Manafort between 2004 and 2009".<ref>http://www.madcowprod.com/2017/03/31/russian-oligarch-election-probe-linked-drug-cartel/</ref> A poorly redacted court document revealed in January 2019 that he was accused of sharing 2016 election data "with a business associate accused of having ties to Russian intelligence".<ref>https://www.timesofisrael.com/manafort-accused-of-sharing-2016-election-data-with-russians/</ref>
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==Career==
 
==Career==
Manafort was an adviser to the U.S. presidential campaigns of Republicans [[Gerald Ford]], [[Ronald Reagan]], [[George H. W. Bush]], and [[Bob Dole]]. In 1980, he co-founded the Washington, D.C.-based lobbying firm [[Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly|Black, Manafort & Stone]], along with [[Charles R. Black Jr]], and [[Roger J. Stone]],<ref name="NYT_Edsall_2012">{{cite web |url=http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/14/the-lobbyist-in-the-gray-flannel-suit/ |title=The Lobbyist in the Gray Flannel Suit |first=Thomas B. |last=Edsall |date=May 14, 2012 |access-date=June 16, 2017 |series=The Opinion Page |work=The New York Times Blog}}</ref><ref name="NYT_1989_BMSK">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/21/us/a-political-power-broker.html |title=A Political Power Broker |date=June 20, 1989 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=June 16, 2017 |location=Washington}}</ref><ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=https://www.fara.gov/docs/3600-Exhibit-AB-19851101-D0XCT601.pdf|title=Registration with the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA)|last=|first=|date=August 1982|work=|publisher=[[United States Department of Justice]]|format=PDF|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180615191143/https://www.fara.gov/docs/3600-Exhibit-AB-19851101-D0XCT601.pdf|archive-date=June 15, 2018|dead-url=No|access-date=June 16, 2017}}</ref> joined by [[Peter G. Kelly]] in 1984.<ref name="Choate_1990">{{cite book |title=Agents of Influence |first=Pat |last=Choate |isbn=0671743392 |date=1990 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |pages=307}}</ref>
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Manafort was an adviser to the U.S. presidential campaigns of Republicans [[Gerald Ford]], [[Ronald Reagan]], [[George H. W. Bush]], and [[Bob Dole]]. In 1980, he co-founded the Washington, D.C.-based lobbying firm [[Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly|Black, Manafort & Stone]], along with [[Charles R. Black Jr]], and [[Roger J. Stone]],<ref name="NYT_Edsall_2012">http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/14/the-lobbyist-in-the-gray-flannel-suit/ </ref><ref name="NYT_1989_BMSK">https://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/21/us/a-political-power-broker.html</ref><ref name="auto">https://web.archive.org/web/20180615191143/https://www.fara.gov/docs/3600-Exhibit-AB-19851101-D0XCT601.pdf</ref>
 
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Latest revision as of 02:09, 9 August 2021

Person.png Paul Manafort   C-SPAN Keywiki WikiquoteRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(lawyer, lobbyist, deep state operative?)
Paul Manafort.jpg
BornPaul John Manafort Jr.
1949-04-01
New Britain, Connecticut, U.S.
NationalityUS
Alma materGeorgetown University
Criminal charge
counts of tax fraud, two counts of bank fraud, one count of failing to disclose a hidden foreign bank account, two counts of conspiracy
Criminal status
Found guilty on 8 counts, pleaded guilty to counts of conspiracy, scheduled to be sentenced on February 8, 2019.
ChildrenJess
SpouseKathleen Bond
PartyRepublican
American lobbyist, political consultant, lawyer, and convicted felon.

Paul Manafort is an American lobbyist, political consultant, lawyer, and convicted felon.

Russian connections

In 2017 Daniel Hopsicker wrote that "New evidence indicates that Oleg Deripaska, the Russian billionaire who paid $10 million a year to Paul Manafort between 2004 and 2009".[1] A poorly redacted court document revealed in January 2019 that he was accused of sharing 2016 election data "with a business associate accused of having ties to Russian intelligence".[2]


Career

Manafort was an adviser to the U.S. presidential campaigns of Republicans Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and Bob Dole. In 1980, he co-founded the Washington, D.C.-based lobbying firm Black, Manafort & Stone, along with Charles R. Black Jr, and Roger J. Stone,[3][4][5]

 

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2023“Last week’s indictment of McGonigal is a classic case of raising more questions than were answered. The evidence presented by prosecutors suggests the FBI counterintelligence expert wasn’t introduced to Deripaska until his waning days with the bureau in 2018, aided by a pair of Russian diplomats. In 2019, after he’d retired, the indictment says McGonigal went to work for the oligarch to help him evade U.S. sanctions and to investigate a rival. But the Times also reported that U.S. counterintelligence — in which McGonigal had been a key player — had tried unsuccessfully to recruit Deripaska as an asset in the years around the 2016 election.

Like the Woody Allen character Zelig, Deripaska — a 55-year-old aluminum magnate who at one time was the richest man in Putin’s Russia — is turning up in the background everywhere in the ongoing corruption of American democracy. The oligarch’s history of multimillion-dollar business dealings with Paul Manafort — Trump’s campaign manager in the summer of 2016 — is central to the theory of Russian interference, after it was confirmed that Manafort shared key campaign data with a suspected Russian intelligence agent also connected to Deripaska.

In 2019, Deripaska did manage to get those U.S. sanctions lifted, in a controversial deal backed not only by Team Trump but critically by then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. That same year, a Deripaska-linked aluminium company announced it would build a large plant in Kentucky, where McConnell was running for re-election. (It eventually wasn’t built.) This is the same McConnell who, during that critical fall period in 2016, refused to sign a bipartisan statement warning about Russian election interference.”
January 2023

 

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Document:Muellergate and the Discreet Lies of the BourgeoisieBlog post1 April 2019Craig MurrayThe capacity of the mainstream media repeatedly to promote the myth that Russia caused Clinton’s defeat, while never mentioning what the information was that had been so damaging to Hillary, should be alarming to anybody under the illusion that we have a working “free media”.
Document:The Assange Arrest is a Warning From HistoryArticle12 April 2019John PilgerLeni Riefenstahl, close friend of Adolf Hitler, whose films helped cast the Nazi spell over Germany told me that the message in her films, the propaganda, was dependent not on “orders from above” but on what she called the “submissive void” of the public: "When people no longer ask serious questions, they are submissive and malleable. Anything can happen.”
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