Hacked texts from Paul Manafort's DAUGHTER claim he knowingly played a role in Mass Killings

[Doodley]

Text messages allegedly hacked from Paul Manafort's daughter's phone are believed to point to the possible influence he had over the Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych at the time of the mass killings by Ukrainian police in Kiev in 2014.

Ukrainian lawyer Eugenia Zakrevska, who is representing some of the Kiev victims, called on prosecutors on Thursday to investigate whether the text message were authentic. Manafort resigned as Trump's campaign chairman back in August following allegations he received more than $12 million in illegal cash from the ex-Ukrainian president to influence U.S. policy.

In one text exchange from March 2015, Andrea Manafort seems to suggest to her sister Jessica that their father may have had a hand in the killings that killed dozens of protesters. The text messages were among 300,000 published by a hacker website last month claiming to have been taken from Andrea's phone, according to Politico.

'Don't fool yourself... That money we have is blood money,' she wrote. 'You know he has killed people in Ukraine? Knowingly Remember when there were all those deaths taking place. A while back. About a year ago. Revolts and what not. Do you know whose strategy that was to cause that, to send those people out and get them slaughtered.'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4303972/Ukrainian-lawyer-probe-Paul-Manafort-hacked-messages.html#ixzz4b1ybwYCc

[Kaotic]

1. Manafort is a shady character to say the least...received $12.7M from pro-Russian president

of Ukraine political party...

Handwritten ledgers show $12.7 million in undisclosed cash payments designated for Mr. Manafort from Mr. Yanukovych’s pro-Russian political party from 2007 to 2012, according to Ukraine’s newly formed National Anti-Corruption Bureau. Investigators assert that the disbursements were part of an illegal off-the-books system whose recipients also included election officials.

In addition, criminal prosecutors are investigating a group of offshore shell companies that helped members of Mr. Yanukovych’s inner circle finance their lavish lifestyles, including a palatial presidential residence with a private zoo, golf course and tennis court. Among the hundreds of murky transactions these companies engaged in was an $18 million deal to sell Ukrainian cable television assets to a partnership put together by Mr. Manafort and a Russian oligarch, Oleg Deripaska, a close ally of President Vladimir V. Putin.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/15/us/politics/paul-manafort-ukraine-donald-trump.html?_r=1

some more background here...

Manafort’s man in Kiev

Kilimnik eventually became “Manafort’s Manafort” in Kiev, and he continued to lead Manafort’s office there after Yanukovych fled the country for Russia in 2014, according to Ukrainian business records and interviews with several political operatives who have worked in Ukraine’s capital. Kilimnik and Manafort then teamed up to help promote Opposition Bloc, which rose from the ashes of Yanukovych’s regime. The party is funded by oligarchs who previously backed Yanukovych, including at least one who the Ukrainian operatives say is close to both Kilimnik and Manafort.

Kilimnik has continued advising Opposition Bloc, which opposes Ukraine’s teetering pro-Western government, even as the party stopped fully paying Manafort’s firm, leaving it unable to pay some of its employees and rent, according to people familiar with the firm and its relationship to Opposition Bloc.

All the while, Kilimnik has told people that he remains in touch with his old mentor. He told several people that he traveled to the United States and met with Manafort this spring. The trip and alleged meeting came at a time when Manafort was immersed in helping guide Trump’s campaign through the bitter Republican presidential primaries, and was trying to distance himself from his work in Ukraine.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/paul-manafort-ukraine-kiev-russia-konstantin-kilimnik-227181

[Kaotic]

2. Manafort started an offshore fund helping a Russian oligarch with ties to Russian organized crime

buy assets in Ukraine with a $100M investment...

Offshore Companies

While working in Ukraine, Mr. Manafort had also positioned himself to profit from business deals that benefited from connections he had gained through his political consulting. One of them, according to court filings, involved a network of offshore companies that government investigators and independent journalists in Ukraine have said was used to launder public money and assets purportedly stolen by cronies of the government.

The network comprised shell companies whose ultimate owners were shielded by the secrecy laws of the offshore jurisdictions where they were registered, including the British Virgin Islands, Belize and the Seychelles.

In a recent interview, Serhiy V. Gorbatyuk, Ukraine’s special prosecutor for high-level corruption cases, pointed to an open file on his desk containing paperwork for one of the shell companies, Milltown Corporate Services Ltd., which played a central role in the state’s purchase of two oil derricks for $785 million, or about double what they were said to be worth.

“This,” he said, “was an offshore used often by Mr. Yanukovych’s entourage.”

The role of the offshore companies in business dealings involving Mr. Manafort came to light because of court filings in the Cayman Islands and in a federal court in Virginia related to an investment fund, Pericles Emerging Markets. Mr. Manafort and several partners started the fund in 2007, and its major backer was Mr. Deripaska, the Russian mogul, to whom the State Department has refused to issue a visa, apparently because of allegations linking him to Russian organized crime, a charge he has denied.

Mr. Deripaska agreed to commit as much as $100 million to Pericles so it could buy assets in Ukraine and Eastern Europe, including a regional cable television and communications company called Black Sea Cable. But corporate records and court filings show that it was hardly a straightforward transaction.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/15/us/politics/paul-manafort-ukraine-donald-trump.html?_r=1

[Kaotic]

3. I would give almost 100% odds that Trump is also invested in this Pericles fund...

Offshore funds and money laundering seem to be Manafort's specialty...if Trump's tax returns were ever to become public..that would be the end of Trump.

[Scarsdale]

4. Needs exposing

the tax returns would explain a LOT. Any gop who is opposed to seeing them is a traitor. They KNOW what is in there.

[dogandturtlemom]

5. Daily Mail source

This source has been banned byWikipedia as sensational, often fabricated source.

[joet67]

6. That's the only reason I didn't rec. But I sure hope it is true and can be proven. Well,

as part of the overall shadiness going on.

[Kaotic]

7. Here's the CNN version...

Ukraine lawyer seeks probe of alleged hacked texts of Manafort's daughter

Kiev, Ukraine (CNN)A Ukrainian human rights attorney representing the victims of mass police shootings in Kiev in 2014 has asked prosecutors to investigate what are purported to be the hacked text messages of one of Paul Manafort's daughters, saying the texts point to possible influence Manafort had with Ukraine's president during that period.

"You know he has killed people in Ukraine? Knowingly," Andrea Manafort allegedly wrote of her father in March 2015 in an angry series of texts to her sister, Jessica, about her father's personal and professional life.

"Remember when there were all those deaths taking place. A while back. About a year ago. Revolts and what not," reads another text in reference to the bloodshed in Kiev.

"Do you know whose strategy that was to cause that, to send those people out and get them slaughtered."
"He has no moral or legal compass," Andrea allegedly wrote about her father earlier as part of the same conversation.
The messages were obtained from a hacker website that in February posted four years' worth of texts, consisting of 300,000 messages, apparently taken from Andrea Manafort's iPhone.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/10/politics/ukraine-manafort-hacked-texts/

[Cosmocat]

8. Manafort stinks to HIGH heaven

and I suspect if he gets a serious look he won't hold up, but this e-mail is heresay and speculative.