and he enlisted a “senior Israeli government official” to help spread the story. He also worked to plant the account in the U.S. media. “I have someone pushing it on the NY Post,” Manafort wrote. “Bada bing bada boom.”(
that criticized Yanukovych’s treatment of former PM Yulia Tymoshenko, /He admitted that he concocted a political dirty trick that involved a “senior cabinet official” who had been a prominent critic of Yanukovych’s treatment of his rival. Manafort said the official was anti-Semitic,(