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Paul John Manafort Jr. ( / ˈmænəfɔːrt /; born April 1, 1949) is an American convicted felon [1] who has worked as a lobbyist, political consultant, and attorney. A long-time Republican Party campaign consultant, he chaired the Trump presidential campaign from June to August 2016.
- Paul John Manafort Jr., April 1, 1949 (age 74), New Britain, Connecticut, U.S.
Mar 8, 2019 · Manafort will not have to pay interest on the amount. Manafort, who must also pay a $50,000 fine, was also ordered to serve three-years supervised release on top of his 47-month sentence. Paul ...
Aug 22, 2018 · Manafort found guilty on 8 counts, mistrial declared in 10. Paul Manafort was found guilty of five tax fraud charges, one charge of hiding foreign bank accounts, and two counts of bank fraud. The ...
Mar 13, 2019 · Manafort will serve a total of seven and a half years in prison for two cases. He has not yet entered a plea in the Manhattan case. President Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort has ...
- Who Is Paul Manafort?
- Early Life
- Beginning A Career in Politics
- Political Consultant and Lobbyist
- Manafort and Russia
- Work in Ukraine
- Trump Campaign Manager
- Indictments
- Trial and Conviction
- Wife and Daughters
Paul J. Manafort Jr. served as one of Donald J. Trump's campaign managers during America's 2016 presidential election. Prior to this Manafort had earned a reputation as a political consultant who offered his lobbying skills to clients around the globe, some of whom were among the world's most corrupt rulers. In October 2017, a federal grand jury in...
Paul John Manafort Jr. was born in New Britain, Connecticut on April 1, 1949. Manafort grew up in New Britain, where his father, Paul J. Manafort Sr., served three terms as mayor. He attended St. Thomas Aquinas High School. In 1971, Manafort graduated with a degree in business administration from Georgetown University; he received his law degree fr...
During the 1976 Republican National Convention, President Gerald Ford was facing a challenge from Ronald Reagan. Manafort corralled delegates to make sure the incumbent president remained his party's nominee (Ford would lose the general election to Jimmy Carter). Manafort also worked on Ronald Reagan's successful 1980 presidential campaign. That sa...
Manafort lobbied for clients from around the world, including regimes in the Philippines, Kenya and Nigeria. Many of those he served had demonstrated little respect for human rights. In 1995, Manafort and Rick Davis started the firm Davis Manafort, which also provided lobbying services. In addition, Manafort remained connected to U.S. politics, wor...
In 2006, Manafort signed a $10 million-per-year contract with Oleg Deripaska, a Russian oligarch with close ties to Vladimir Putin. With Rick Gates, Manafort started Pericles, a private equity fund, in 2006; Deripaska became an investor. In 2014, Deripaska filed a petition alleging Manafort owed him millions from an investment, a claim that seems t...
Manafort began to work for Ukraine's Viktor Yanukovych and his Party of Regions after questions of electoral fraud (and the poisoning of an opponent) led to the country's highest court annulling a Yanukovych victory in the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election. Manafort guided the politician through an image makeover; critics also say the consultant...
In March 2016, Manafort became an adviser to Donald Trump's presidential campaign. At the time Trump was facing possible delegate defections at the national convention; as Manafort had forestalled a similar challenge in 1976 by wrangling delegates, his skills were appreciated. Manafort became manager of the campaign in June, putting him in charge d...
On October 30, 2017, Manafort surrendered to the FBI to face a 12-count indictment. The charges included conspiracy, failing to register as a foreign agent, not reporting foreign income and making false statements. Manafort was also accused of laundering $18 million. In court he pleaded not guilty to the charges and was released on house arrest wit...
Manafort's first trial, in which he faced 18 charges of financial fraud, began on July 31, 2018, in Alexandria, Virginia. Calling him a man who "believed the law did not apply to him," prosecutor Uzo Asonye described Manafort's efforts to conceal earnings from his consultancy work in Ukraine and his method of lying to banks on loan applications, wh...
Manafort is married to Kathleen, a 1979 graduate of George Washington University who received her law degree from Georgetown in 1988. The couple has two daughters: Jessica (born in 1982) and Andrea (born in 1985). Jessica filed for divorce from husband Jeffrey Yohai in March 2017, but before that Manafort had spent millions to support some of his s...
Mar 13, 2019 · Paul Manafort spoke about his family during his statement to the judge. "Your honor, I will be 70 years old in a few weeks," he said, mentioning that his wife in 66 and he is her primary caregiver.
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Mar 7, 2019 · Paul Manafort, Trump’s former campaign chairman, was sentenced to 47 months in prison for bank and tax fraud related to his work in Ukraine. He also pleaded guilty to illegal lobbying and witness tampering, but violated his plea deal by lying to investigators.
