Manafort Convicted Tax Fraud Bank Fraud
🟡 Fraud & Financial Crime ·
2018
Summary
Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort was convicted by a federal jury in Virginia in August 2018 of eight counts of tax fraud, bank fraud, and failing to disclose foreign accounts, arising from his undisclosed lobbying work for the pro-Russian Ukrainian government of Viktor Yanukovych. In September 2018, he pleaded guilty in a separate Washington, D.C. federal case to conspiracy and witness tampering. Evidence presented at trial documented that Manafort had shared internal Trump campaign polling data with Konstantin Kilimnik, whom the Senate Intelligence Committee later assessed to be a Russian intelligence officer. Manafort was sentenced to a combined seven and a half years in federal prison; Trump pardoned him in December 2020 after he had served approximately two years.
Key Figures
Donald Trump, Paul Manafort, Robert Mueller, Konstantin Kilimnik
Institutions Involved
DOJ, Senate Intelligence Committee
Sources
- United States v. Manafort (1 -17-cr-00201)
- Report On The Investigation Into Russian Interference In The 2016 Presidential Election
- Statement from the Press Secretary Regarding Executive Grants of Clemency