N. Korea: Don = Bam Treasury probes Manafort
North Korea slammed the Trump administration Thursday for being just like Barack Obama, days after Secretary of State Rex Tillerson returned from his visit to the region.
“Tillerson admitted the failure of the US efforts to denuclearize [North Korea] for 20 years and end Obama’s policy of ‘stra-tegic patience’ during hiss recent tour,” an unnamedd Foreign Ministry officialal told the state-run Northth Korean Central Newsws Agency.
“Now Tillerson is re-repeating what Obamama touted . . . until he left thehe White House,” the offi-cial said. Daniel Halper The Treasury DeparDepartment is investigating offshooffshore financialnancial activity by PresidentPres Trump’s former campaigncam manager, Paul Manafort.Manafor The feds are looking into Manafort’s (left) finfinancial transactions in conneconnection with an anti-cocorruptiontion investiga-inve tiotion re- lated to his work in Eastern Europe, The Associated Press reported Thursday.
The Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network received the information on Manafort earlier this year from authorities in Cyprus.
In 2014, he was caught up in a $19 million deal to pur- chase a Ukrainian cable-TV provider and allegedly received the money through Cypriot shell companies.
On Wednesday, it emerged that Manafort had a secret $10 million deal with a Russian billionaire that promoted the interests of Russian President Vladimir Putin.