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Trump Campaign Chief’s Firm Got $17 Million From Pro-Russia Party
Paul
Manafort, who was forced out as President Trump’s campaign chairman
last summer after five months of infighting and criticism about his
business dealings with pro-Russian interests, disclosed Tuesday that his
consulting firm had received more than $17 million over two years from a
Ukrainian political party with links to the Kremlin.
The
filing serves as a retroactive admission that Mr. Manafort performed
work in the United States on behalf of a foreign power — Ukraine’s Party
of Regions — without disclosing it at the time, as required by law. The
Party of Regions is the political base of former President Viktor F.
Yanukovych, who fled to Russia during a popular uprising in 2014.
The disclosure hints at the vast fortunes available to top American political consultants plying their trade in other countries.
It
was not immediately clear if Mr. Manafort would be required to pay any
fines for the late filing. He has maintained that a majority of his work
for Mr. Yanukovych was political consulting in Ukraine, where his firm,
Davis Manafort International, operated an office at the time.
Mr.
Manafort’s filing indicates that he was retained by the Party of
Regions to help elect national and regional candidates in Ukraine and to
liaise with American diplomats in Kiev, the capital, who were
monitoring elections there.
“Paul’s
primary focus was always directed at domestic Ukrainian political
campaign work, and that is reflected in today’s filing,” said Jason
Maloni, a spokesman for Mr. Manafort.
But
the documents acknowledge that part of his firm’s job was to advise
Ukrainian officials in their dealings with American government officials
in the United States. The work also included counseling the European
Center for a Modern Ukraine, a nonprofit group that once included
members of Mr. Yanukovych’s party.
Mr. Manafort’s deputy, Richard Gates, reportedly also oversaw
a lobbying campaign in Washington to burnish Ukraine’s image there. But
Mr. Manafort has denied that he or Mr. Gates had any formal role in the
lobbying campaign, which a spokesman said was managed and paid for by
the European Center for a Modern Ukraine.
Tuesday’s
filing acknowledges one contact with an American official in the United
States: a March 2013 meeting with Representative Dana Rohrabacher,
Republican of California, who is known for his pro-Russian views.
The
filing also contains details about various contractors, both from the
United States and from Ukraine, whom Mr. Manafort employed for the Party
of Regions. Mr. Manafort paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to a
firm co-owned by a Republican pollster, Tony Fabrizio, who would later
work on Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign. Over a two-year period, the
firm billed the Party of Regions for more than $2 million in travel and
living expenses.
Additionally,
the documents show regular payments by Mr. Manafort’s firm to
Konstantin V. Kilimnik, who served as the manager of its Kiev office.
The filings do not cover the entire period Mr. Manafort worked in Ukraine. Last summer, The New York Times reported
that handwritten ledgers kept by the Party of Regions showed $12.7
million in undisclosed cash payments designated for Mr. Manafort’s firm
from 2007 to 2012.
Anticorruption
officials in Ukraine asserted at the time that the payments were part
of an illegal off-the-books system whose recipients also included
election officials. Mr. Manafort, who resigned his campaign post shortly
after the article appeared, has denied receiving any cash, and state
prosecutors in Ukraine have not accused him of wrongdoing.
The
disclosures cap lengthy negotiations with officials at the Justice
Department, which monitors activities of Americans who work on behalf of
foreign political parties and governments.
Mr.
Manafort’s work in Ukraine coincided with large real estate investments
he made in the United States, some of which are being scrutinized by
federal investigators. He also gave millions of dollars to his two
daughters, one of whom, Andrea Manafort, apparently had qualms about how
her father had earned the money, according to text messages posted last
year on a website used by Ukrainian hackers.
“Don’t
fool yourself,” Ms. Manafort wrote to her sister in 2015, referring to
protesters’ deaths in anti-Yanukovych uprisings. “That money we have is
blood money.”
Correction: June 27, 2017
An earlier version of this story incorrectly identified
Viktor F. Yanukovych’s title when he fled Ukraine in 2014. At the time,
he was serving as president, not prime minister.
