Paul Manafort has agreed to pay $3.15 million to settle a civil case filed by the Justice Dept. for his alleged "willful failure to timely report his financial interest in foreign bank accounts,” according to court documents. https://t.co/autUijhF7c
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The civil lawsuit, filed in West Palm Beach, Florida, said Manafort earned income from conducting consulting work in Ukraine from 2006 to 2014. It alleges that Manafort failed to report his interest in foreign accounts on his federal income tax returns or through a timely filed Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts, known as “FBAR,” for 2013 and 2014.
Many of the accounts were allegedly opened “without the use of Manafort’s name at all,” using nominee shell corporations opened or operated by others on his behalf, the lawsuit claimed.
[Manafort hasn’t been making a public case for victimhood, unlike some of the others caught up in the FBI’s pointless Russia-collusion chase. This may be why, although it’s also true that Manafort’s charges related to earlier work done in Ukraine, not the presidential campaign. Now that this is settled and Manafort has his commutation, we’ll see whether he starts pushing back or whether he lets sleeping dogs lie. — Ed]
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