Manafort Indictment Keeps Focus on Skadden's Ukraine Work
One paragraph in particular must have stood out to Skadden lawyers reading Monday's blockbuster indictment.
October 30, 2017 at 03:41 PM
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Former Donald Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort leaves his home in Alexandria, Virginia, Monday, Oct. 30, 2017, in Washington. Manafort, and a former business associate, Rick Gates, were indicted on Monday. AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
For lawyers at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, one paragraph undoubtedly stood out in Monday's blockbuster 31-page indictment of former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort and his protege Rick Gates.
In paragraph 22, prosecutors allege that Manafort and Gates used offshore accounts to pay $4 million for a government-commissioned report about the trial of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. The indictment doesn't include the law firm's name, but Skadden has previously been identified as the firm that produced the report, which critics have described as justifying the jailing of Tymoshenko by her political rival and Manafort's then-client, former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.
The New York Times reported last month that Skadden's work was one part of Manafort's strategy to shield Yanukovych from international condemnation. And the indictment's reference to the Tymoshenko report and Skadden didn't go unnoticed on Twitter on Monday.
Skadden Arps, huge DC law firm, could face hard questions given news that it appears to have secretly taken $4 mil from Manafort pic.twitter.com/iekmFt59F2
— Sarah Westwood (@sarahcwestwood) October 30, 2017
A spokeswoman for Skadden did not return a call for this story.
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