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Apr 01, 1949 New Britain, Connecticut, United States 75 years old
American political consultant
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About Paul Manafort
- Paul John Manafort Jr.
- (; born April 1, 1949) is a convicted felon, American former lobbyist, political consultant, and former lawyer serving a prison sentence for federal financial crimes.
- A long-time Republican Party campaign consultant, he chaired the Trump Presidential campaign team from June to August 2016.
- He was convicted of tax and bank fraud in 2018 and forfeited his license to practice law in January 2019.Manafort served as an adviser to the U.S.
- presidential campaigns of Republicans Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H.
- W.
- Bush, and Bob Dole.
- In 1980, he co-founded the Washington, D.C.-based lobbying firm Black, Manafort & Stone, along with principals Charles R.
- Black Jr., and Roger J.
- Stone, joined by Peter G.
- Kelly in 1984.
- Manafort often lobbied on behalf of foreign leaders such as former President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych, former dictator of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos, former dictator of Zaire Mobutu Sese Seko, and Angolan guerrilla leader Jonas Savimbi.
- Lobbying to serve the interests of foreign governments requires registration with the Justice Department under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA); on June 27, 2017, he retroactively registered as a foreign agent.On October 27, 2017, Manafort and his business associate Rick Gates were indicted in the U.S.
- District Court for the District of Columbia on multiple charges arising from his consulting work for the pro-Russian government of Viktor Yanukovych in Ukraine before Yanukovych's overthrow in 2014.
- The indictment came at the request of Robert Mueller's Special Counsel investigation.
- In June 2018, additional charges were filed against Manafort for obstruction of justice and witness tampering that are alleged to have occurred while he was under house arrest, and he was ordered to jail.Manafort was prosecuted in two federal courts.
- In August 2018, he stood trial in the Eastern District of Virginia and was convicted on eight charges of tax and bank fraud.
- Manafort was next prosecuted on ten other charges, but this effort ended in a mistrial with Manafort later admitting his guilt.
- In the DC District Court, Manafort plead guilty to two charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States and witness tampering, while agreeing to cooperate with prosecutors.
- On November 26, 2018, Robert Mueller reported that Manafort violated his plea deal by repeatedly lying to investigators.
- On February 13, 2019, DC District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson concurred, voiding the plea deal.
- On March 7, 2019, Judge T.S.
- Ellis sentenced Manafort to 47 months in prison.
- On March 13, 2019, Judge Amy Berman Jackson sentenced Manafort to an additional 43 months in prison.
- Minutes after his sentencing, New York state prosecutors charged Manafort with sixteen state felonies.
