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Vorlage:BLP sources Vorlage:Infobox person Paul John Manafort, Jr. (geb. 1. April 1949) ist ein amerikanischer Lobbyist und Politikberater.

Manafort wirkte als Berater an den Präsidentschaftskampagnen von Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush und Bob Dole mit. Derzeit ist er der Wahlkampfmanager des republikanischen Präsidentschaftskandidaten Donald Trump und Miteigentümer der Beratungsfirma David, Manafort und Freedman. Er ist für seine erfolgreiche Lobbyarbeit im Auftrag von Jonas Savimbi und Wiktor Janukowytsch sowie Ferdinand Marcos und Mobutu Sese Seko bekannt.

Early life and education

Manafort was born in New Britain, Connecticut, the son of Antoinette Marie (Cifalu) and Paul J. Manafort, Sr. He graduated from Georgetown University in 1971 with a B.A. in American studies, and from Georgetown University Law School in 1974 with a J.D. His grandfather James Manafort migrated to the USA from Italy in 1919. His father served with the Army combat engineers in World War II and was mayor of New Britain.

Career

Between 1977 and 1980 Manafort was an attorney with the firm of Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease in Washington, D.C.

In 1985, he was a director of Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions.Vorlage:Citation needed

Political activities

In 1976, Manafort was the delegate-hunt coordinator for eight states for the President Ford Committee; the overall Ford delegate operation was run by James A. Baker III. Between 1978 and 1980, Manafort was the southern coordinator for Ronald Reagan's presidential campaign, and the deputy political director at the Republican National Committee. After Reagan's election in November 1980, he was appointed Associate Director of the Presidential Personnel Office at the White House. In 1981 he was nominated to the Board of Directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation.

Manafort was an adviser to the presidential campaigns of George H.W. Bush in 1988, Robert Dole in 1996,.

In March 2016 he joined the presidential campaign of Donald Trump to lead Trump's "delegate-corralling" efforts and as "chairman" of the Trump campaign. In April 2016, Trump terminated his campaign manager Corey Lewandowski promoting Manafort to the position. He gained control of the daily operations of the campaign as well as an expanded $20 million budget, hiring decisions, advertising, and media strategy.

Lobbying career

In 1980 Manafort was a founding partner of Washington, DC-based lobbying powerhouse Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly.

Manafort left BMSK in 1996 to join Richard H. Davis in forming Davis, Manafort, and Freedman.

Association with Jonas Savimbi

In 1985, Manafort's firm, BMSK, signed a $600,000 contract with Jonas Savimbi, the leader of the Angolan rebel group UNITA, to refurbish Savimbi's image in Washington and secure financial support on the basis of his anti-communism. BMSK arranged for Savimbi to attend events at the American Enterprise Institute (where Jeane Kirkpatrick gave him a laudatory introduction), the Heritage Foundation, and Freedom House; in the wake of the campaign Congress approved hundreds of millions of dollars in covert American aid to Savimbi's group. Allegedly, Manafort's continuing lobbying efforts helped preserve the flow of money to Savimbi several years after the Soviet Union ceased its involvement in the Angolan conflict, forestalling peace talks.

Lobbying for other foreign leaders

Manafort accepted $900,000 yearly to lobby for Ferdinand Marcos. He was also involved in lobbying for Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaïre and attempted to recruit Siad Barre of Somalia as a client. His firm also lobbied on behalf of the governments of the Dominican Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya (between $660–750,000 yearly 1991 and 1993), and Nigeria ($1 million in 1991). These activities led Manafort's firm to be listed amongst the top five lobbying firms receiving money from human-rights abusing regimes in the Center for Public Integrity report "The Torturer's Lobby".

Involvement in the Karachi Affair

Manafort wrote the campaign strategy for Edouard Balladur in the 1995 elections, and admitted to having been paid under the table (at least $200,000). The money was transferred to him through his friend, Lebanese arms-dealer Abdul Rahman al-Assir, from middle-men fees paid for arranging the sale of three French Vorlage:Sclass-s to Pakistan, in a scandal known as the Karachi Affair.

Association with Pakistani Inter-Service Intelligence Agency

Manafort received $700,000 from the Kashmiri American Council between 1990 and 1994, supposedly to promote the plight of the Kashmiri people. However, an FBI investigation revealed the money was actually from Pakistan's Inter-Service Intelligence agency as part of a disinformation operation to divert attention from terrorism. A former Pakistani ISI official claimed Manafort was aware of the nature of the operation. While producing a documentary as part of the deal, Manafort interviewed several Indian officials while pretending to be a CNN reporter.

HUD scandal

In the late 1980s, Manafort was criticized for using his connections at HUD to ensure funding for a $43 million rehabilitation of dilapidated housing in Seabrook, N.J. Manafort's firm received a $326,000 fee for its work in getting HUD approval of the grant largely through personal influence with Deborah Gore Dean, an executive assistant to former HUD Secretary Samuel R. Pierce, Jr.

Lobbying for Viktor Yanukovych and involvement in Ukrainian politics

He also worked as an adviser on the Ukrainian presidential campaign of Viktor Yanukovych (and his Party of Regions during the same time span) from December 2004 until the February 2010 Ukrainian presidential election even as the U.S. government (and McCain) opposed Yanukovych because of his ties to Russia's leader Vladimir Putin. Manafort was hired to advise Yanukovych months after massive street demonstrations known as the Orange Revolution overturned Yanukovych's victory in the 2004 presidential race. Borys Kolesnikov, Yanukovich’s campaign manager, said the party hired Manafort after identifying organizational and other problems in the 2004 elections, in which it was advised by Russian strategists. Manafort rebuffed U.S. Ambassador William Taylor when the latter complained he was undermining U.S. interests in Ukraine. According to a 2008 U.S. Justice Department annual report, Manafort’s company received $63,750 from Yanukovych's Party of Regions over a six-month period ending on March 31, 2008, for consulting services. In 2010, under Manafort's tutelage, the opposition leader put the Orange Revolution on trial, campaigning against its leaders' management of a weak economy. Returns from the presidential election gave Yanukovych a narrow win over Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, a leader of the 2004 demonstrations. Yanukovych owed his comeback in Ukraine's presidential election to a drastic makeover of his political persona and, people in his party say, that makeover was engineered in part by his American consultant, Manafort.

In February 2014, Yanukovych was overthrown by the Euromaidan protests, during the 2014 Ukrainian revolution, and a Parliamentary vote, and then fled to Russia. Manafort then returned to Ukraine in September 2014 to become an advisor to Yanukovych’s former head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine Serhiy Lyovochkin. In this role he was ask to assist in rebranding Yanukovych's Party of Regions. Instead, he argued to help stabilize Ukraine, Manafort was instrumental in creating a new political party called Opposition Bloc. According to Ukrainian political analyst Mikhail Pogrebinsky “He thought to gather the largest number of people opposed to the current government, you needed to avoid anything concrete, and just become a symbol of being opposed".

References

==External links==
* [http://www.namebase.org/main3/Paul-J-jr-Manafort.html Manafort Paul J Jr] at [[NameBase]] ([http://www.webcitation.org/64lIY4HO3 Archive])
* [http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paul_J._Manafort Paul J Manafort] at [[SourceWatch]]
* {{C-SPAN|Paul Manafort}}

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