Why Would Trump Aide Paul Manafort Rip Off a Russian Mobster?

By Mark Hemingway
Published August 17, 2016 6:12pm ET
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Why Would Trump Aide Paul Manafort Rip Off a Russian Mobster?
In the New York Times’s recent report on Trump aide Paul Manafort’s possibly illegal payoffs from pro-Russian interests in Ukraine, there’s this curious detail: Among the hundreds of murky transactions these companies engaged in was an $18 million deal to sell Ukrainian cable television assets to a partnership put together by Mr. Manafort and a […]

In the New York Times’s recent report on Trump aide Paul Manafort’s possibly illegal payoffs from pro-Russian interests in Ukraine, there’s this curious detail:

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