to mr manafortmr manafort remained in contact with mr kilimnik throughout the presidential campaign when mr kilimnik traveled to the united states to meet with mr manafort the men also traded emails in which they appeared to discuss ways to use mr manaforts position on the campaign for financial gainvideotranscripttranscriptpaul manaforts trail of scandalspresident trumps former campaign chairman paul manafort has now been accused by the special counsel of violating his plea deal by repeatedly lying to federal prosecutors but this wasnt mr manaforts first scandalpaul manafort was once president trumps campaign manager by the fall of 2018 he was expected to face at least a decade in prison for 10 felony counts those counts included financial fraud and conspiracy to obstruct justice mr manafort is disappointed of not getting acquittals all the way through he is evaluating all of his options at this point in the hopes of getting a more lenient punishment manafort agreed to fully cooperate with the special counsel robert mueller now federal prosecutors are saying he violated his plea deal by repeatedly lying during their investigation manaforts lawyer also allegedly passed information to president trumps legal team but this isnt manaforts first scandal controversy has trailed the veteran republican adviser since his earliest work as an international lobbyist and consultant in the 1980s manafort testified before congress and admitted to using his political influence to win millions of dollars in contracts from federal lowincome housing programs the technical term for what we do and what law firms associations and professional groups do is lobbying for purposes of today i will admit that in a narrow sense some people might term it influence peddling that same decade manafort advised the philippine dictator ferdinand marcos on improving his image in the us manafort allegedly received 10 million in cash from a marcos confidante it was apparently money intended for ronald reagans presidential campaign but the campaign said it never received that money foreign contributions to us presidential elections are illegal also in the 1980s manafort was linked to the prime minister of the bahamas at a time when the island nation had alleged ties to drug traffickers manaforts company said that the goal of its work was to help the bahamas obtain more us aid to help curb the drug smuggling decades later manafort would run trumps presidential campaign we want america to understand who donald trump the man is not just donald trump the candidate the composite of his career not just from a business standpoint or a political standpoint from a human standpoint as well but he resigned five months into the job in august 2016 in the wake of reports that he received more than 12 million from viktor yanukovich the former ukrainian president and prorussia politician yanukovich and his political party relied on advice from manafort and his firm which helped them win several elections the times uncovered that manafort and others close to trump met with the kremlinlinked russian lawyer in june