The detail, first reported by The Associated Press in March, may shed light on an email Manafort — then Trump's campaign chairman — sent last July from his campaign email address. In the email, he asked his longtime employee Konstantin Kilimnik to offer Deripaska "private briefings" about the campaign.
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Paul Manafort's offer to brief a Putin ally about the campaign sheds new light on Russia's election interference
Former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort has become engulfed in the spotlight over his connections to a Russian oligarch with ties to Vladimir Putin.
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Manafort had written a cryptic note to
emails are being examined as part of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian election interference and whether the Trump campaign played any part.
Jason Maloni, a representative for Manafort, told The Washington Post that Manafort had simply been trying to leverage his high-level role on the campaign to collect past debts.
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But it was Manafort who, according to Deripaska, owed him money — not vice versa.
Legal complaints filed by Deripaska's representatives in the Cayman Islands in 2014 said he gave Manafort $19 million that year to invest in a
A spokesperson for Deripaska's company, Rusal, did not respond to a request for comment.
Deripaska and Manafort had worked together before. signed a $10 million annual contract with Manafort
"This is how it is done," said Carle, who served 23 years in the CIA as the deputy national intelligence officer for transnational threats.
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"Approach someone with access and influence [like Manafort], propose benign-seeming justifications, offer an enticement, get benign-seeming favors done by the target in exchange (e.g., a meeting, a briefing, information that seems non-alarming), and use the meeting to entice down the primrose path — either without informing the target or directly with his knowledge."
One of the representatives, JD Gordon, initially denied intervening in the process.
The altered Ukraine policy amendment, with the softer language, ultimately was included in the new GOP platform. A few days later, WikiLeaks began publishing the emails stolen from the Democratic National Committee. The timing coincided with the start of the Democratic National Convention the following week.
It was around the time that Manafort wrote to Deripaska offering private briefings that Carter Page, an early foreign policy adviser to the campaign, was in Moscow giving a speech at Russia's New Economic School.
The dossier, which was presented by top intelligence officials to Trump in January and was reportedly used to bolster the FBI's case to surveil Page late last year, alleged that Page served as an intermediary for the communication between Russia and the campaign that Manafort oversaw.
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Page and Manafort, for their part, have said they never met each other.
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