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More Charges filed against Manafort today.
Mueller alleges ex-Trump campaign aide Manafort secretly paid group of European politicians to lobby on behalf of pro-Russia Ukrainian government.
Special counsel Robert Mueller is accusing President Donald Trumps former campaign chairman of secretly paying former European politicians to lobby on behalf of Ukraine.
The new allegation against Paul Manafort comes in a newly unsealed indictment made public Friday. The indictment followed a guilty plea by Manaforts longtime business associate, Rick Gates.
The indictment accuses Manafort of paying the former politicians, informally known as the Hapsburg group, to appear to be independent analysts when in fact they were paid lobbyists. Some of the covert lobbying took place in the U.S.
The indictment says the group was managed by a former European chancellor. Court papers accuse Manafort of using offshore accounts to pay the group more than 2 million euros.
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