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Mueller zeros in on mysterious million dollar loan to Manaforts family after his FBI arrest
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/02/mueller-investigators-looking-mysterious-million-dollar-loan-given-manafort-arrested-fbi/amp/
Tans Geneva at Raw Story
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As Paul Manafort sits in jail, questions continue to swirl around his real estate empire and potential links between Manafort, agents of foreign governments, and the Trump administration.
On Friday, Bloomberg reported that prosecutors have started investigating a $1 million loan made to Manaforts family.
Special Counsel Robert Muellers prosecutors told a court they want to know more about the loan, which was issued in August 2017. The money came from a Nevada company called Woodlawn LLC.
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Its still not clear who funded the loan, which might explain why prosecutors are lobbying the court for access.
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Blue Owl
(50,596 posts)Roland99
(53,342 posts)Manafort Prosecutors Have Questions About $1 Million Condo Loan
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-08/manafort-prosecutors-have-questions-about-1-million-condo-loan
As Manaforts legal problems escalated, Woodlawn installed a Hollywood bit player named Joey Rappa as its managing member in public filings. The investor or investors funding the loan wanted to remain anonymous given the potential for embarrassment, according to a lawyer for the lender.
Now that prosecutors are seeking to seize the condo after Manaforts conviction on tax- and bank-fraud charges, Woodlawn is staking a claim to it in order to collect on the debt.
But one riddle remains: Who actually funded the $1 million loan?