Prosecutors Believe Manafort Made $60 Million Consulting In Ukraine
By Tierney Sneed | July 30, 2018 12:08 pm
Prosecutors believe former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort made $60 million doing consulting work in Ukraine — a “significant percentage†of which he allegedly did not report on his tax returns — according a Monday court filing by special counsel Robert Mueller.
The filing was opposing the move by Manafort’s attorneys to exclude from trial a wide swath of evidence related to his Ukraine work, which began around 2005 and started to die down in 2014. The Virginia trial starts on Tuesday.
Manafort has been charged with bank fraud and tax fraud. Prosecutors argue that the ouster of his top Ukrainian client, ex-President Victor Yanukovch, from the country in 2014 led to a significant drop in Manafort’s income, and that “is relevant to the bank frauds that he later committed.â€
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