President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, has hired new lawyers to represent him in the Russia investigation, a spokesman for Manafort said Friday, as FBI special counsel Robert Mueller homes in on his tax records and overseas lobbying work.
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Paul Manafort spokesman: 'He's girding himself for a long legal battle'
President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, has hired new lawyers to represent him in the Russia investigation. Here's why.
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Manafort's ties to Russia came under scrutiny last August, when The New York Times discovered that a pro-Russian political party in Ukrainedesignated him $12.7 million in undisclosed cash payments. Manafort, a longtime Republican operative, had advised the party and its former leader Viktor Yanukovych for nearly a decade.
Manafort has been associated with at least 15 bank accounts and 10 companies in Cyprus, dating back to 2007, NBC reported in March, and the FBI has now issued grand jury subpoenas to several banks for Manafort's records, according to Bloomberg.
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Manafort also attended a meeting last year at Trump Tower with Trump's son Donald Trump Jr., son-in-law Jared Kushner, and two Russian lobbyists who were said to have offered dirt on Hillary Clinton.
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