Secret Ledger in Ukraine Lists Cash for Top Trump Aide
- Records show $12.7 million in undisclosed cash payments designated for Paul Manafort, the campaign manager for Donald J. Trump, from a pro-Russian political party from 2007 to 2012.
- Investigators assert that the disbursements were part of an illegal off-the-books system whose recipients also included election officials.
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