Paul Manafort, who was forced out as President Trump’s campaign chairman last summer after five months of infighting and criticism about his business dealings with pro-Russian interests, disclosed June 27 that his consulting firm had received more than $17 million over two years from a Ukrainian political party with links to the Kremlin.
Trump’s Russia ties
New York Times: Pro-Russia party in Ukraine paid Trump campaign chief’s firm
This file photo taken on April 27, 2016 shows Paul Manafort, then-advisor to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's campaign, checking the teleprompters before Trump's speech at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC.
