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Contacted two people who worked for him, identified only as persons d-1 and d-2. manafort and a confidant asked them to make the quote, materially false claim thahe lobbied on behalf pro-russian ukrainian politicians in europe when investigators say in fact he had lobbied the u.s. congress for those politicians from 2011 to 2013. manafort allegedly made the contacts in february, just days after prosecutors unveiled new criminal charges against him. using encrypted text messages he wrote to the person known as d-1, quote, we should talk. i have made clear that they worked in europe. in anothere...

We have a little bit of breaking news. is ken dilanian with us? okay, so, ken, i am seeing this come across. i guess it's not a wire any more, it's our phones. the federal grand jury has returned a new superceding indictment in the manafort case. the indictment says manafort secretly retained a group of former senior european politicians to take positions favorable to ukraine, including by lobbying in the united states. it says in 2012 and 2013. manafort used at least four offshore accounts to wire more than 2 million euros to pay the group of former politicians. i mean, this is like a bad tom...

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