President Trump Donald John TrumpYemeni-American man kills himself after family blocked from entering US by Trump admin Dershowitz on MSNBC panel: 'Don't you dare accuse me' of defending Trump Bannon slams Kochs: 'What they have to do is shut up and get with the program' MORE's campaign chairman, Paul Manafort Paul John ManafortTrump lashes out at Mueller for alleged conflicts of interest Manafort spent K on karaoke equipment for his house in the Hamptons: report Hillicon Valley: Russian hackers targeted McCaskill | Facebook suspends Alex Jones | Dems question feds' use of facial recognition tech | NYC weighs Uber, Lyft crackdown | Union targets AT&T over job losses MORE, earned more than $60 million working for Russia-backed Ukraine politicians, special counsel Robert Mueller Robert Swan MuellerSasse: US should applaud choice of Mueller to lead Russia probe MORE said in a new court filing Monday.
Mueller said government prosecutors expect to prove that Manafort earned the money and failed to report a significant percentage of it on his tax returns. The filing is the first time a tally of Manafort's earnings in Ukraine has been revealed.
“No ‘pay stubs’ or ‘paychecks’ reflect that income, rather, the invoices and bills submitted by various consultants provide proof on that issue,” he said in the filing.
“Accordingly, to prove that Manafort earned that much income, the government must be able to show the extent of the work that he performed for Ukraine.”
Mueller is fighting Manafort’s request for the court to exclude more than 50 trial exhibits that relate to his political consulting work in Ukraine between 2005 and 2014.
Mueller said the challenged exhibits, which include a memoranda, emails and photos reflecting tasks performed, are relevant to establish the extent of Manafort’s work.
The filing comes a day before Manafort’s trial on bank and tax fraud charges is set to begin this week.
CreamOfSumYungFella on July 30th, 2018 at 20:29 UTC »
Let's talk about Viktor Yanukovych, one of the Russian-back Ukrainian politicians Manafort worked for. He is from the Party of Regions (R).
Yanukovych (R) won a closely-fought election against a female opponent. During the campaign, Yanukovych talked about how they should "lock her up" for corruption. After he won the election, he actually did lock her up.
After it was discovered that he was just a Russian stooge, he fled to Russia, where he remains to this day. It turned out that his entire party was compromised by Russia, and they effectively ceased to exist.
TooShiftyForYou on July 30th, 2018 at 17:26 UTC »
Mueller said government prosecutors expect to prove that Manafort earned the money and failed to report a significant percentage of it on his tax returns.
Mueller of course has access to all of Manafort's tax returns, just like he has Trump's.
tank_trap on July 30th, 2018 at 17:18 UTC »
This explains why Manafort worked for free for the Trump campaign.