The indictment says manafort listed the soho.
Manafort rug dealer.
Antique dealer in new york.
That lifestyle included luxury cars expensive clothing and antique rugs the latter covering the floors of his homes and rental properties.
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.
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.
Manafort entered into a loan agreement.
Maybe paul manafort just loves carpets and he was not deluding anyone in any way.
934 000 to an antique rug dealer in.
Other evidence which prosecutors will likely use as proof of money laundering show a seemingly complicated relationship manafort established with his oriental rug dealer.
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.
Authorities say that between october 2008 and june 2010 manafort spent 934 350 at an antique rug shop in alexandria using money wired from accounts in cyprus.
If you want.
You can easily see how this would.
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.
An antique rug store.
Plus millions more for clothes condos and home renovations.
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.
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.
934 350 is a totally reasonable amount of money to spend at a rug store.