934 000 to an antique rug dealer in.
Manafort rug dealer.
Manafort is said to have spent 934 000 in eight.
That lifestyle included luxury cars expensive clothing and antique rugs the latter covering the floors of his homes and rental properties.
Other evidence which prosecutors will likely use as proof of money laundering show a seemingly complicated relationship manafort established with his oriental rug dealer.
Plus millions more for clothes condos and home renovations.
While most of manafort s alleged spending of dirty money happened out of town at least one local business got a slice of his expensive tastes.
If you want.
You can easily see how this would.
An antique rug store.
Manafort and gates also were accused of trying to hide money kept in foreign bank accounts manafort from 2011 to 2014 and gates from 2012 to 2014.
Over a two year period beginning in 2008 for example manafort allegedly paid 1 034 350 to an alexandria virginia antique rug store using wire transfers from bank accounts in cyprus.
One of the claims in the 30 page indictment involved a series of excursions to an antique rugs dealer based in alexandria va where mr.
According to one exhibit j and j oriental rug gallery and jesand investment corporation through mr.
The original indictments showed that from 2008 to 2010 and then once more in 2012 manafort sent an alexandria rug dealer j j oriental rug gallery we now know a succession of five and six.
Maybe paul manafort just loves carpets and he was not deluding anyone in any way.
934 350 is a totally reasonable amount of money to spend at a rug store.
The indictment says manafort listed the soho.
Jason nazmiyal a prominent manhattan rug dealer looks at manafort s rug spending and tells me it doesn t make sense this is not the behavior of a high end collector.
Former trump campaign manager paul manafort allegedly laundered 18 million dollars and almost 1 million went to an antique rug dealer.