Manafort Pal Still Profiting From Mostly Silent Pro-Trump Group

  • Laurance Gay has run Rebuilding America Now since mid-2016
  • Other pro-Trump groups have been much more active in 2017

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One of the biggest super political action committees backing Donald Trump’s campaign has done little since the election other than pay a sizable salary to its top official, a longtime friend and business associate of the president’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort.

Laurance Gay, the godfather to one of Manafort’s daughters, has been paid about $830,000 since the creation of Rebuilding America Now in June 2016. That’s far more than the bosses of other pro-Trump groups, including those that have actively promoted the president’s agenda.