New York Times corrects report on which oligarchs Paul Manafort wanted to give polling data

By Katelyn Caralle

Published January 9, 2019 8:23pm ET

New York Times corrects report on which oligarchs Paul Manafort wanted to give polling data — Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, leaves the federal courthouse after his hearing, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018, in Washington. | (Jose Luis Magana/AP)

The New York Times issued a correction Wednesday to a report that said former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort asked for campaign polling to be passed on to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.

The newspaper issued a correction note and clarified that Manafort asked then-deputy Trump campaign manager Rick Gates to give the polling data to Ukrainian oligarchs Serhiy Lyovochkin and Rinat Akhmetov, and not Deripaska, who has close ties to the Kremlin.