Manafort Joined Trump as Ukraine Work Slowed, Cash Woes Rose

Fixer said to visit 17 times in 2014-15, with unpaid bills
Gates cooperation gives Mueller view on Manafort’s cash hunt

Bloomberg’s Jodi Schneider reports on the new charges against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.(Source: Bloomberg)

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By David Voreacos and Stephanie Baker

February 28, 2018 at 4:00 AM EST

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February 28, 2018 at 3:02 PM EST

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Among the enduring curiosities of Donald Trump’s presidential run was his announcement that campaign chairman Paul Manafort was an unpaid volunteer.

Why would a longtime political fixer do that? That question has grown more persistent thanks to successive indictments of Manafort by U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller, each documenting in finer detail Manafort’s allegedly fraudulent scramble for cash just as he was taking the campaign job in spring 2016.

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