Paul Manafort To Pay $3.5 Million In DOJ Civil Case

ABC News reports:

Paul Manafort, the former chairman of Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, has agreed to pay $3.15 million to settle a civil case filed by the Justice Department over undeclared foreign bank accounts.

When the civil case was filed in April 2022, prosecutors alleged that Manafort had failed to disclose more than 20 offshore bank accounts he ordered opened in the United Kingdom, Cyprus, St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

Manafort faced criminal charges as part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation into Trump’s associates and sentenced to more than seven years in prison. Trump pardoned his former campaign chairman in the final weeks of his presidency.

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