Big News on the Manafort Front

Let me briefly flag your attention to a Russia probe development which strikes me as highly significant. The information comes from a warrant from the Manafort investigation that we already knew about. But yesterday a version of the warrant with fewer redactions was unsealed.

There’s a lot there. But two key points stand out. First is that there seems to have been an additional $10 million loan which we hadn’t known about from Putin-aligned Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska to Manafort. Much more important, but related: the FBI has or had a source which told them that “Deripaska helped fund Manafort’s Ukrainian work when it began in 2005-06.”