“There is nothing out of the ordinary about them,” Mr. Manafort said, “and I am confident
anyone who isn’t afflicted with scandal fever will come to the same conclusion.”
Scandal has trailed Mr. Manafort since his earliest work as an international lobbyist and consultant in the 1980s, when he testified before Congress about influence peddling to win federal housing contracts and was linked to $10 million in cash
that a confidant of the Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos claimed was delivered to Mr. Manafort in a suitcase.
Separately on Wednesday, a spokesman for Mr. Manafort said he had “received formal guidance recently from the authorities” on the need to register, retroactively, for lobbying work in Ukraine, and was “taking appropriate steps in response.” Mr. Manafort was advised last week
that he should file the belated registration within 30 days to come into compliance with the law, according to a person with direct knowledge of conversations between Mr. Manafort’s lawyers and the Justice Department.
Papers were recorded that same day creating a shell company controlled by Mr. Manafort
that soon received $13 million in loans from two businesses with ties to Mr. Trump, including one that partners with a Ukrainian-born billionaire and another led by a Trump economic adviser.
After Campaign Exit, Manafort Borrowed From Businesses With Trump Ties -
By MIKE McINTIREAPRIL 12, 2017
Aug. 19 was an eventful day for Paul Manafort.
Mr. Rovt, who donated $10,000 to Mr. Trump’s campaign on Election Day — the campaign refunded most of it
because it was over the legal maximum of $2,700 — said he had never met Mr. Manafort and was not involved in the loan to him.
