Former Trump campaign official Paul Manafort settles in $3.15 million lawsuit with US government

THe was the former Chairman of Former President Donald Trump2016’s campaign will be the one to pay United States After an investigation, he was found to have undeclared foreign bank accounts.

After Paul Manafort allegedly failed disclose more than 20 offshore accounts in St. Vincent and the Grenadines (the United Kingdom), and Cyprus, the Justice Department brought a civil suit against him.

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After the U.S. Government claimed that he had failed to submit federal tax documents detailing the offshore accounts and seeking penalties, fines, interest payments, and other punishments, the case was finally settled in U.S District Court for Southern District of Florida on February 22.

Manafort faced additional criminal charges in the larger Robert Mueller investigation into Trump’s connections to Russia and those associated with him. Manafort was released from prison. convicted in 2018 of eight financial crimes, with several relating to political consulting work in Ukraine — which led to his removal from the president’s campaign less than a month after Trump accepted the GOP nomination.

Although the sentence for this convicted political consultant was more than seven years, it was only a partial one. pardoned by Trump In December 2020.

Since then, several other Trump associates were arrested and convicted. Steve Bannon was a key adviser to Trump and White House chief strategist. He was accused of defrauding Trump supporters during a campaign for the U.S. border wall. Trump also pardoned him. faced charges in New York Money l