2016-08-15cnn.com

Mook's response came in after the Times report about the discovery by anti-corruption investigators of "$12.7 million in undisclosed cash payments designated for Mr. Manafort from [then-President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovich's] pro-Russian political party from 2007 to 2012, according to Ukraine's newly formed National Anti-Corruption Bureau."

According to the report, anti-corruption officials and investigators in Ukraine argue that the payments they discovered are part of a large, secret network of corruption operated by the government under Yanukovich, for whom Manafort worked as a consultant at the time.

The report also noted that those officials have not yet determined if Manafort received the payments found in the handwritten ledgers. Manafort's lawyer, Richard Hibey, denied to the Times that his client received "any such cash payments" described in the report.

Of course since these would have been cash payments, we can never know if they actually happened. But it is interesting to note (as Manafort mentions) that the Hillary Clinton actually was involved in cronyist favors and deals involving Ukraine and/or Russia... so perhaps everyone's deep in it.



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