Source – Paul Manafort raked in tens of millions of dollars by secretly working for the Ukrainian government — and blew more than $12 million on shopping sprees, antiques, Range Rovers and housekeeping, according to court documents.
President Trump’s former campaign manager allegedly personally laundered $18 million through offshore accounts, located mainly in Cyprus and the Grenadines, out of more than $75 million funneled into them by him and his “right-hand man” political consulting partner Richard Gates.
Between 2008 and 2014, Manafort tapped into the overseas accounts as if they were his personal piggy bank to fund his lavish lifestyle in the United States, according to the indictment filed Monday.
The 68-year-old lobbyist bought three homes in 2012 alone — a $2.8 million condominium on Howard Street in Soho, which he rented out on Airbnb, a $3 million brownstone on Union Street in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, and a home in Virginia.
Eight pages of the indictment detail the other lavish expenditures Manafort made over the years:
- $5.4 million to a home improvement company located in the Hamptons, where Manafort owns a mansion in Bridgehampton
- $1.3 million to a home automation, lighting and home entertainment company in Florida
- More than $272,000 for payments on at least four Range Rovers and a Mercedes-Benz
- $934,350 to an antique rug store in Alexandria, Va., plus an additional $100,000 purchase
- Nearly $850,000 on men’s clothes in New York and another $520,000 to a clothing store in Beverly Hills
- Nearly $820,000 on a Hamptons landscaper
- $623,000 to an antique dealer in New York
- $20,000 for housekeeping in New York
I get almost all of it but the rugs. Seriously who the fuck loves “rugs” to the tune of wasting 1,000,000 dollars on shit you step on. I know some rugs are tapestry but what grown man develops a boner for carpets to the point where they blow that kind of money on mats.
Other things I’d waste a million dollars on “rugs”:
-Making people fight
-Gems in Clash Of The Clans
-A stuffed baby
-Shares in Bre X and Nortel
-Beta
-Jarret Jack’s Shoe Collection
-Building Project With Antoine Walker
-Making people fight
I really want to make people fight and start a club. Like a “Fight Club.”
I wonder if Manafort gets to take his facelift to prison.
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