Top Trump aide was lobbyist for Pakistani spy front, brutal dictator
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Paul Manafort, one of the “professionals” brought on to mange the Republican Convention for Donald Trump was a lobbyist for a front for Pakistan’s spy agency and a host of other controversial clients
For more than five years, Donald Trump’s new top campaign aide, Paul Manafort, lobbied for a Washington-based group that Justice Department prosecutors have charged operated as a front for Pakistan’s intelligence service, according to court and lobbying records reviewed by Yahoo News.
Manafort’s work in the 1990s as a registered lobbyist for the Kashmiri American Council was only one part of a wide-ranging portfolio that, over several decades, included a gallery of controversial foreign clients ranging from Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos and Zaire’s brutal dictator Mobutu Sese Seko to an Angolan rebel leader accused by human rights groups of torture.
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