Paul Manafort's ties to Russia mean he could have been blackmailed by Kremlin

The country's use of the tactic is so widespread that one scholar of modern day Russia has described the nation as a 'blackmail state' source: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/paul-manafort-trial-guilty-plea-deal-blackmail-money-laundering-russia-us-election-kremlin-a8544396.html #Headlines by: Diana Pilipenko

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