Another one bites the dust! In order to avoid legal trouble, Paul Manafort is looking into registering as a “foreign agent,” for work he had already done for the Ukrainian government.
Watch below:
Paul Manafort’s lawyers have been in discussions with the Justice Department and he is expected to register as a foreign agent in a bid to resolve questions about his past work for Ukraine, according to sources briefed on the talks.
Manafort and his lobbying firm have been under FBI and Justice Department scrutiny as part of a broader anti-corruption probe of the former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych.
According to Manafort spokesman Jason Maloni, “Since before the 2016 election, Mr. Manafort has been in discussions with federal authorities about the advisability of registering under FARA for some of his past political work. Mr. Manafort received formal guidance recently from the authorities and he is taking appropriate steps in response to the guidance. The work in question was widely known, concluded before Mr. Manafort began working with the Trump campaign and was not conducted on behalf of the Russian government.”
Now, this is the SECOND guy to do this – remember Mike Flynn? He had to do that too. Now, let’s be honest here – if Obama’s guys had to do this how would we react? And are we ignoring this kind of stuff just because he’s supposedly “our guy”?