As Hillary campaign pounces on the shocking accusation.
Hillary Clinton’s staff called on Donald Trump to come clean about the extent of the ties between Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort and the Kremlin after a New York Times report suggested he may have received payments from Viktor Yanukovych, a pro-Russian former president of Ukraine.
Yanukovych, who was ejected from power by a popular uprising in early 2014, had engaged Manafort as a consultant on how to burnish his image in the West. The NYT said it found Manafort listed as a recipient of $12.7 million in secret payments documented in a ‘black ledger’ belonging to Yanukovych that came to light after he fled.
The NYT did not offer any proof of Manafort having received the funds and Manafort strongly denied he had acted improperly.
“I have never received a single ‘off-the-books’ cash payment…nor have I ever done work for the governments of Ukraine or Russia,” he said in a statement. He added that his work in Ukraine ended in October 2014, after elections there.
More: www.fortune.com
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