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Politico: Scandals around Trump aide Manafort deepen

By Politico.

Published Aug. 17, 2016 at 9:19 pm

The press secretary of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) speaks during an interview with AFP in front of the bureau's offices in Kyiv on August 16, 2016. Corruption investigators in Ukraine say an illegal, off-the-books payment network earmarked $12.7 million in cash payments in 2007-2012 for Paul Manafort, now Trump's campaign chairman, the New York Times reported on August 15, 2016. SERGEI SUPINSKY / AFP

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Paul Manafort is still in as Donald Trump's campaign chairman, and his top aide Rick Gates is staying put.

But the promotion of Trump’s chief pollster Kellyanne Conway as campaign manager and hiring of Breitbart executive Stephen Bannon as campaign CEO on August 17 comes amid a deluge of negative media reports about Manafort’s ties to a pro-Russian governing party in Ukraine as a consultant.