Special counsel Robert Mueller unveiled new evidence on Tuesday that former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort orchestrated an extensive campaign to lobby U.S. lawmakers and media on behalf of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.
A pair of memos made public in a court filing detail Manafort’s role in an effort to draw attention away from the prosecution and imprisonment of Yanukovych’s political rival Yulia Tymoshenko.
One memo, authored by Manafort and dated April 22, 2013, discusses an effort “to heavily engage with the [U.S. Government] and US Congress, using a strategy I built called ‘Engage Ukraine’ which focused the dialogue on positive key issues, and away from [Tymoshenko].”
It also details how Manafort “organized and leveraged the visits of” two members of the Hapsburg group — a group of former European leaders allegedly paid to lobby on behalf of Ukraine — “to make critical in-roads in how policymakers view Ukraine” in the United States.
Manafort also boasted in the memo about how he arranged to place op-eds in publications, including The Hill, and sought to pitch “our narrative and messaging to key reporters and editors at the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and New York Times.”
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Mueller releases new evidence that Manafort ran unregistered lobbying campaign for Ukraine https://t.co/3aoRSfH0qk pic.twitter.com/1xNnj6NwOd
— The Hill (@thehill) June 13, 2018
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