International Intrigue: Hacked Texts Of Paul Manafort’s Daughter To Be Investigated By Ukrainian Authorities
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Currently, Manafort is facing an investigation by the FBI for receiving millions of dollars in payments, allegedly, while working as a political strategist for the Russian-backed president of the Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych.
To rewind and set the stage, back in the winter of 2013 peaceful protesters arrived at Kiev’s central square to protest Yanukovych’s sudden withdrawal from a trade deal with the European Union, due to the influence of the Kremlin.
The Ukrainian authorities now say Yanukovych created conditions that allowed for nearly 100 people to be killed by security forces.
He fled to Russia in February 2014.
So what does any of this have to do with Manafort, outside of his being linked to Yanukovych as a strategist?
While he’s not being charged by authorities with having anything to do with the unrest, his name has come up in other areas.
Namely, his daughter, Andrea’s phone was hacked, and over 300,000 text messages from a hacker site were obtained last month, pointing to the possible influence Manafort had in the Ukraine at that time.
Some of the texts to her sister, Jessica, read:
“You know he has killed people in Ukraine? Knowingly,” Andrea Manafort allegedly wrote of her father in March 2015 in an angry series of texts to her sister, Jessica, about her father’s personal and professional life.
“Remember when there were all those deaths taking place. A while back. About a year ago. Revolts and what not,” reads another text in reference to the bloodshed in Kiev.
“Do you know whose strategy that was to cause that, to send those people out and get them slaughtered.”
“He has no moral or legal compass,” Andrea allegedly wrote about her father earlier as part of the same conversation.
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Now, a human rights lawyer, Eugenia Zakrevska, has filed a motion in Kiev, asking that the text messages be verified, and that U.S. authorities question Manafort.
She’s not suggesting that Manafort directly influenced the actions of the Kiev police force that led to the deaths of citizens.
Earlier texts, however, suggest that Manafort was with his daughter on February 20, which was the day of the worst of the violence, when around 50 people were killed.
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No decision has been made, yet, but after receiving Zakrevska’s request, Serhiy Gorbatyuk, Ukraine’s prosecutor for special investigations has said that they will examine the text messages, and if verified authentic, they could possibly be taken into evidence.
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Can you imagine Conservative reaction if this was found on Malia's phone? They'd postpone the Daytona 500!
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