Corruption investigators in Ukraine say an illegal, off-the-books payment network earmarked United States dollars 12.7 million in cash payments for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign chairman Paul Manafort, the New York Times reported today.
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After being accused of receiving payment from the Ukrainian government, the chairperson of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign claims he never received any off-the-books payment for political work from Ukraine.
Ukrainian investigators do not know whether Manafort received the payments laid out in the ledger, but believe they were part of an “illegal off-the-books system”, the Times reported.
Clinton’s campaign office insists that Donald Trump has an obligation to disclose information about his campaign chair Paul Manafort’s and every other campaign employee and adviser.
“I think Paul Manafort has dismissed that as completely false and inaccurate and I accept him at his word”, Pence said in an interview with Fox 28 Columbus.
The Hillary Clinton campaign quickly seized on the story to demand Trump come clean about his campaign’s pro-Russia ties. The prosecutor, Artem Sytnyk, said that didn’t mean that Mr. Manafort necessarily received any money.
“Best case scenario we have to assume that he just doesn’t pay any taxes, other than that there’s a good chance that we, all of us, the American public, would finally be able to get a better determination of what Trump’s net worth might be”.
The ledgers were obtained by Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau.
Paul Manafort appears on stage ahead of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, June 22, 2016, in NY. Manafort said that the mere suggestion that he accepted payments is unfounded, nonsensical, and silly.
Putin’s occupation of Crimea has been referred to as a land grab by the USA and its European allies, responding with sanctions to promote pressure, but the occupation remains the same up to this day.
In his statement today, Manafort attacked the Times.
Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), who has declared he won’t vote for Trump, said the candidate should investigate the allegations made in the New York Times report.
Manafort, who has had several worldwide clients including Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos, denied any wrongdoing.
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Reportedly, Marcos held a fortune equivalent to $10 billion while also torturing over 34,000 people and killing 3,240.
