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Trump’s Former Campaign Chairman Charged With Money Laundering

Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, was on Monday charged with conspiracy against the United States and money laundering. This is the first to … Continue reading Trump’s Former Campaign Chairman Charged With Money Laundering

By Ronke Sanya Idowu
Updated October 30, 2017
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US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with members of the the Senate Finance Committee and his economic team in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on October 18, 2017. MANDEL NGAN / AFP
US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with members of the Senate Finance Committee and his economic team in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on October 18, 2017. MANDEL NGAN / AFP

Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, was on Monday charged with conspiracy against the United States and money laundering.

This is the first to come out of a sprawling probe into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

Manafort and business partner Rick Gates were charged with allegedly hiding millions of dollars they earned working for former Ukrainian politician Viktor Yanukovych and his pro-Moscow political party.

Special counsel Robert Mueller announced the 12 charges against the two, the first against any close former Trump aides stemming from a federal probe into possible collusion in Russia’s effort to tilt the US presidential election in Trump’s favor.

AFP

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