What Is Manafort Accused Of

In August 2016, Manafort's connections to former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and his pro-Russian Party of Regions drew national attention in the US, where it was reported that Manafort may have illegally received $12.7 million in off-the-books funds from the Party of Regions. In an indictment unsealed Monday morning, Paul Manafort and his right-hand-man, Rick Gates stand charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering and conspiring against the United States, among other claims. The scheme, investigators claim, has been going on as far back as 2006.

President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, was sentenced Thursday by a federal judge to 47 months in prison for bank and tax fraud connected to his political consulting... Manafort was charged with an additional seven counts in the District of Columbia, and pleaded guilty to conspiracy against the United States and to witness tampering in the D.C. case.

As part of the plea agreement, Manafort also admitted his guilt on the remaining counts in his Virginia trial. A jury found Donald Trumps former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, guilty on eight counts of bank and tax fraud related to his work as a political consultant overseas in the first trial win for... The 18-count federal indictment against Manafort included charges broken down into three areas: filing false income tax returns, failing to file reports for foreign bank accounts, and bank fraud.

In August, Manafort, 69, was convicted of financial fraud relating to his work as a political consultant in Ukraine, which pre-dated his role with Donald Trump's presidential campaign. He... Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has been found guilty of five counts of filing false income tax returns, one count of failing to file a report of a foreign bank account in 2012 and two charges of bank fraud.

Paul Manafort, the one-time 2016 Trump campaign chairman and longtime Republican lobbyist, was sentenced Thursday to nearly four years in prison for a slate of financial fraud crimes, a much ... Manafort, a fixture in Republican politics for decades, was convicted of five counts of tax fraud, one count of failure to file a report of foreign bank and financial accounts and two counts of...