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BOOM: Manafort has been paid to pitch Russian nuclear technology for nearly two DECADES.
This story has everything: offshore banking, financial crimes, Russia, nukes, and...MOVIE PRODUCERS -Eric GarlandFlorida lawmaker’s former company used Manafort to pitch Russian-developed technology to U.S. government
TALLAHASSEE — Paul Manafort’s Russian ties have cast a broad shadow over a Trump administration under investigation, but the longtime Republican powerbroker also has a little-known connection to a Florida politician that also runs, in part, through Russia.
Florida House freshman Don Hahnfeldt ran a company in the early 2000s that hired Manafort — President Donald Trump’s former campaign chief who was recently indicted — to try to sell Russian-developed nuclear containment foam to the U.S. Energy Department. At one point, a Manafort-directed company bought more than 2 million shares of company stock.
The story of the now-defunct, Virginia-based EuroTech Ltd. doesn’t just involve Russia — it’s also ingrained with other obscure plot elements worthy of the silver screen, including officials with known ties to the mafia and an untraceable cash flow from Cayman Island investors, according to thousands of pages of regulatory filings.
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The name of one of the offshore companies in the alleged Manafort money laundering network outlined in the Mueller indictment was John Hannah LLC. Its name is a near match to John Hanna LLC, a company that bought 2.5 million shares of EuroTech stock in 2001, when Manafort was a director, records show.
https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2017/11/28/florida-lawmakers-former-company-used-manafort-to-pitch-russian-developed-technology-to-us-government-123127
TALLAHASSEE — Paul Manafort’s Russian ties have cast a broad shadow over a Trump administration under investigation, but the longtime Republican powerbroker also has a little-known connection to a Florida politician that also runs, in part, through Russia.
Florida House freshman Don Hahnfeldt ran a company in the early 2000s that hired Manafort — President Donald Trump’s former campaign chief who was recently indicted — to try to sell Russian-developed nuclear containment foam to the U.S. Energy Department. At one point, a Manafort-directed company bought more than 2 million shares of company stock.
The story of the now-defunct, Virginia-based EuroTech Ltd. doesn’t just involve Russia — it’s also ingrained with other obscure plot elements worthy of the silver screen, including officials with known ties to the mafia and an untraceable cash flow from Cayman Island investors, according to thousands of pages of regulatory filings.
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The name of one of the offshore companies in the alleged Manafort money laundering network outlined in the Mueller indictment was John Hannah LLC. Its name is a near match to John Hanna LLC, a company that bought 2.5 million shares of EuroTech stock in 2001, when Manafort was a director, records show.
https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2017/11/28/florida-lawmakers-former-company-used-manafort-to-pitch-russian-developed-technology-to-us-government-123127
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