manafort, torturer's lobby

“I had no role or involvement in the cyber­attack on the DNC or the subsequent release of information gained from the attack, and I have never spoken with any Russian Government officials or anyone who claimed to have been involved in the attack,” he said.

 “The suggestion that I ever worked in concert with anyone to release hacked emails or sought to undermine the interests of the United States is false.

 Despite the constant scrutiny and innuendo, there are no facts or evidence supporting these allegations, nor will there be.”----------Paul Manafort, March 21, Washington Post
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"Donald Trump’s campaign chairman took a “mercenary” approach to lobbying the US government on behalf of international clients accused of killings, rapes and other atrocities, according to one of his former colleagues.

Manafort was a principal at the lobbying firm Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly, which had close links to the Ronald Reagan and George HW Bush administrations, as well as senior Republicans in Congress.

In that role, in 1989, he had no qualms about doing business with the “murderous dictator” of Somalia"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/31/donald-trump-paul-manafort-riva-levinson-book

"Critics say the unsavoury international clientele of Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly added up to a “torturers’ lobby”.

 Asked if Manafort has a moral compass, Levinson replied: “I don’t know "

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"“Don’t fool yourself,” she wrote to her sister in 2015, according to the posted texts. “The money we have is blood money.”

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"A 1992 report from the Center for Public Integrity listed Black, Manafort, Stone, and Kelly as one of the lobbying firms to profit the most by doing business with foreign governments that violated their people’s human rights.

From 1991 to 1992, the firm made $3.3 million from what the Center for Public Integrity dubbed “the torturers’ lobby.”

http://www.thedailybeast.com/top-trump-aide-led-the-torturers-lobby

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"During the 1988 presidential campaign in the United States, it was disclosed that Black, Manafort retained the island nation of the Bahamas as a client at a time its leadership was being attacked for alleged ties to drug traffickers. "

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