Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort is handing over millions of dollars in assets to the government — but not his python jacket and ostrich vest.
As part of his sentence for bank and tax fraud, Manafort is forfeiting $36 million in property and cash to the feds, debtors, and victims, which are mostly banks, but his collection of wearable animal skins wasn’t part of the deal.
Special counsel Robert Mueller discovered Manafort’s shady dealings as part of his probe into Russian election interference and possible collusion with the Trump campaign. When the FBI searched Manafort’s home in an early-morning raid last year, agents took photos of several hangers full of couture clothing but never took possession of the items, CNN reports.
The bomber jacket is worth $18,500 and the ostrich vest $9,500. Other House of Bijan and Alan Couture clothing featured in the photos — which prosecutors presented to the jury in his trial last year — include a $6,500 camel hair sport coat and a $15,000 ostrich track jacket.
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Manafort paid for much of his couture clothing using wire transfers from secret offshore bank accounts that held the revenue from Ukrainian lobbying he hadn’t reported as the law requires.
The former Trump campaign official will turn 70 on April 1 behind bars. He is serving a seven-and-a-half-year prison sentence.
