Paul Manafort et le complot contre l'Amérique

Depuis plus d'un an le nom de Paul Manafort a beaucoup circulé dans l'actualité américaine, plus récemment parce que Robert Mueller l'a inculpé. L'enquête sur l'ingérence russe s'intéresse tout particulièrement aux relations d'affaires de l'ancien meneur de la campagne Trump. Si on semblait avoir oublié son nom avant 2016, les relations troubles de Manafort ne constituent pas une nouveauté, ce serait même son pain et son beurre.

 "Manafort had profited from the sort of excesses that make a country ripe for revolution. And in the early months of 2014, protesters gathered on the Maidan, Kiev’s Independence Square, and swept his patron from power. Fearing for his life, Yanukovych sought protective shelter in Russia. Manafort avoided any harm by keeping a careful distance from the enflamed city. But in his Kiev office, he’d left behind a safe filled with papers that he would not have wanted to fall into public view or the wrong hands.

Money, which had always flowed freely to Manafort and which he’d spent more freely still, soon became a problem. After the revolution, Manafort cadged some business from former minions of the ousted president, the ones who hadn’t needed to run for their lives. But he complained about unpaid bills and, at age 66, scoured the world (Hungary, Uganda, Kenya) for fresh clients, hustling without any apparent luck. Andrea noted her father’s “tight cash flow state,” texting Jessica, “He is suddenly extremely cheap.” His change in spending habits was dampening her wedding plans. For her “wedding weekend kick off” party, he suggested scaling back the menu to hot dogs and eliminated a line item for ice."

 https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/03/paul-manafort-american-hustler/550925/