When Paul Manafort, onetime Trump campaign manager and influence peddler to dictators, pleaded guilty to failing to register as a foreign agent in September, he averted a trial, and with it, the chance for the public to discover some of the most shady parts of his long and shady résumé, including his overseas work in Ukraine for a pro-Russian Ukrainian government. You need only to look at what he forfeited in order to keep the details of that work a secret — an estimated $46 million worth of cash and real estate, including an apartment in Trump Tower — to get a sense of how truly terrible those details must be.
New York Magazine: What exactly did Paul Manafort do to earn that $66 million?
Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort leaves the Prettyman Federal Courthouse after a bail hearing Nov. 6, 2017 in Washington, DC.
