Manafort as Florida man: Five fast facts

Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, is a Florida man.

While the indictment featuring 12 counts of conspiracy and false statements lists his residences in Virginia, Florida and Long Island, N.Y., Manafort has a home in Palm Beach Gardens. Here’s more on his Florida connections:

According to the Palm Beach County Property Appraiser, Manafort purchased a home in the BallenIsles Country Club in Palm Beach Gardens for $1.5

million in September 2007. His wife, Kathleen, is also listed as a homeowner.

Manafort filed for a homestead exemption on the property this year.

According to state voter rolls, Manafort is also registered to vote at the Palm Beach Gardens address and has voted in elections there since 2012.

Part of the indictment alleged that Manafort wired money from offshore accounts to pay for a variety of goods and services without paying taxes on the money. Most of these purchases took place in New York, but several were in Florida.

They include $1.3 million in 15 payments made between 2011 and 2013 to a “home automation, lighting and home entertainment company in Florida.”

The payments came from three Manafort-controlled business entities in Cyprus, one in the Grenadines and one in the United Kingdom. Additionally an unnamed contractor in Florida received more than $432,000 in 11 payments from five Manafort entities in Cyprus.

Finally, an art gallery in Florida received two payments totaling $31,900 from two entities in Cyprus controlled by Manafort.

Manafort might be a Florida man for a while. According to the indictment, three properties in New York and one in Virginia were purchased with ill-gotten gains and are subject to forfeiture. But the property in Palm Beach Gardens isn’t mentioned.

MIKE STOCKER/STAFF FILE Paul Manafort talks to Ben Carson at the Diplomat Hotel last year in Hollywood.