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Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "Another day in Our Nation's Capital, another story about the Russian kleptocracy. No, not the story about the possible witness who mysteriously fell out a window. This one's about Paul Manafort."
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Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "Another day in Our Nation's Capital, another story about the Russian kleptocracy. No, not the story about the possible witness who mysteriously fell out a window. This one's about Paul Manafort."
READ MORE
Manafort proposed in a confidential strategy plan as early as June 2005 that he would influence politics, business dealings and news coverage inside the United States, Europe and the former Soviet republics to benefit the Putin government, even as U.S.-Russia relations under Republican President George W. Bush grew worse. Manafort pitched the plans to Russian aluminum magnate Oleg Deripaska, a close Putin ally with whom Manafort eventually signed a $10 million annual contract beginning in 2006, according to interviews with several people familiar with payments to Manafort and business records obtained by the AP. Manafort and Deripaska maintained a business relationship until at least 2009, according to one person familiar with the work.
"We are now of the belief that this model can greatly benefit the Putin Government if employed at the correct levels with the appropriate commitment to success," Manafort wrote in the 2005 memo to Deripaska. The effort, Manafort wrote, "will be offering a great service that can re-focus, both internally and externally, the policies of the Putin government."
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