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Political operative and chairman of Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, later convicted of tax and bank fraud, money laundering, and obstruction. The corpus shows no direct relationship with Jeffrey Epstein: Manafort is absent from the flight logs, the black book, victim testimony, and the House Oversight estate productions, and the JPMorgan litigation in the corpus expressly lists him among 'bad actors' the bank handled whose conduct was 'unrelated to Epstein.' He appears instead as a political figure Jeffrey Epstein tracked during the 2017 to 2019 Mueller investigation: Jeffrey Epstein forwarded a report of the FBI's search of Manafort's home to his defense lawyer Reid Weingarten, received forwarded Manafort articles from contacts such as Nicholas Ribis and Paul Krassner, and discussed Manafort's prosecution and a possible pardon in emails and texts with Lawrence Summers and Steve Bannon. A separate, unverified FBI tip speculatively ties Jeffrey Epstein's Austrian passport to Manafort's 'Habsburg Group' lobbying operation, but nothing in the corpus corroborates it.
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Mar 2017 – Jul 2025 · 67 dated documents (1 received, 66 mentioned)