Before serving as Donald Trump's campaign chairman,Paul Manafort, spent years as a lobbyist for foreign leaders in some dicey countries. It was a very profitable trade. One of his best clients was Viktor Yanukovych, and of Ukraine. But,according to Robert Mueller's indictment, Manafort hid the millions he made from Yanukovych, or sneaked them into the United States.
To finish that,he used some pretty inventive avenues, like lovely suits and extremely expensive rugs. And Range Rovers. And it might possess worked, and too,but Manafort decided to step into the spotlight, running Trump's campaign. In the end, and prosecutors would end up using Manafort's lavish lifestyle as evidence to build a case against him.
Today on the show: A political consultant goes to Ukraine to work for an ally of Vladimir Putin — and finds himself jostled awake years later when the FBI raids his domestic.
Plus a convicted felon explains on how Manafort could possess done a much better job of hiding his money.
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