Manafort also wanted the Obama administration to understand that “the Jewish community will take this out on Obama on Election Day if he does nothing,” he said.
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,(
Manafort Pleads Guilty, Agrees to Cooperate With Mueller 9/14 Manafort also admitted trying to tamper with witnesses, joining with a longtime associate who prosecutors said has ties to Russian intelligence/ organized theEuropean politicians,known as the Hapsburg Group, to lobby U.S.senators(
1/19 attracted the interest of Mueller's investigators recently filed paperwork showing it had helped spread negative information about Qatar, the Gulf nation targeted by the Saudis and the UAE in a bitter propaganda battle. The parent company of Cambridge Analytica filed documents with the U.S.
11/10 The firms have been identified as the Podesta Group Inc. and Mercury Public Affairs LLC. Tony Podesta, who ran the Podesta Group, resigned last week following the indictment