Trump hires only the best trash: Lewandowski, Manafort, Roger Stone, Roy Cohn
Stories of Lewandowski at Americans for Prosperity:
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But he is infamous to former co-workers at Americans for Prosperity, some of whom describe him as verbally abusive, unprofessional, and occasionally misogynistic.
And at least one Republican operative who has interacted with him in his current role said much of the same.
Lewandowski was AFP’s New Hampshire state director when he took over Ohio state operations for the Koch-backed advocacy operation in the summer of 2012. Several former AFP employees who worked with Lewandowski at that time describe him as a bully and said they were “flabbergasted” to learn that Lewandowski had gone from AFP to overseeing a presidential campaign.
“He was just a condescending, nasty brutish boor” said Pat Maloney, an Ohio regional field director for AFP when Lewandowski took the reins. “In a position of real power, he would make H.R. Haldeman in the Nixon administration look like a Boy Scout.”
Maloney described Lewandowski’s management style as unusually aggressive, lacing his interactions with employees with expletives and calling individual staff to berate them, even when they were not his direct reports.
When Maloney missed a conference call to attend to his ill grandmother, Lewandowski called him at his grandmother’s beside.
“My grandmother is literally dying, having Last Rites administered and I get a call from Corey chewing me out, asking who the hell did I think I was missing this conference call,” he said.”
While his own dealings with Lewandowski were unpleasant, Maloney said he felt Lewandowski reserved his worst behavior for female employees. “There was definitely a misogynistic streak to this guy,” he said.
Lisa Bast, another Ohio regional field director at the time, said Lewandowski once threatened to “come really down hard” on her if she didn’t get 50 people to attend an AFP event in Akron.
After she missed a 7 a.m. conference call to prepare for the event, her phone rang.
“Corey gets on the phone and defames my character. He called me incompetent, called me a loser,” Bast said. “He called me a f**king b**ch, yelling, ‘I am going to fire your f**king ass!’”
Bast later organized another volunteer event closer to the election, which featured Republican strategist Dick Morris. As a part of the preparations, she had ordered 125 box lunches for volunteers who attended; but when Lewandowski decided the lunch shouldn’t be shared unless the volunteers also made calls for the phone bank, Bast said Lewandowski threw all 125 lunches in the garbage. “Corey said, ‘If they don’t phone bank they’re not getting f**king fed.’”
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Former Paul Manafort Employee Claims She Was Fired After Reporting His Sexual Advances
By: streiff ( Diary) | April 8th, 2016 at 03:30 PM | 18
There is absolutely nothing about the Donald Trump campaign that says either class or competence.
The “campaign manager” is facing charges in Florida for assaulting a friendly reporter. Roger Stone, one of Trump’s goons, has encouraged riots at the Cleveland GOP convention as well as hinting at assaults on delegates who do not support Trump. This is Roger Stone. I am not sh**ing you.
This is Roger Stone:
Trump, himself, has the sleaziest personal life of any candidate for the presidency since, at least, John F. Kennedy. Not only does he seem to view women as a combination of arm candy and party favors but he has made comments about his daughters that, had a lesser mortal made them in public, would have resulted in a visit from Child Protective Services.
Now, in an effort to make a bad situation a helluva lot worse, Trump has brought on board a GOP Establishment fixer named Paul Manafort to, naturally, fix the problem. Manafort fits well into the existing Trump organization. He is wildly incompetent. He loves Vladimir Putin. He laundered money managed the finances for a Ukrainian oligarch. He screwed workers in the process. He has a long association with people who are part of the Russian Mob. And he, if this allegation is true, seems to share Donald Trump’s vision of where women fit into the campaign:
The sad thing is that there is absolutely nothing here that even sounds out of phase with the moral cretins and ethical cripples that Donald Trump has managed to bring together in a virtual critical mass of douche. If fact, what would be shocking would be if the allegation were false. It has not gone unnoticed. As many as 70% of American women will not vote for Trump. And these are the kinds of people he hires.
http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2016/04/08/breaking.-former-paul-manafort-employee-claims-fired-reporting-sexual-advances/
Yep, Manafort laundered hundreds of millions for a Ukrainian oligarch, Putin's puppet there. It came to light only because he stiffed employees : http://freebeacon.com/issues/whistleblower-trump-aides-investment-firm-stiffed-employees/A company set up by a senior Donald Trump aide to funnel a Ukrainian oligarch’s fortune into U.S. real estate withheld payroll checks in violation of labor law, a former employee alleged in a 2009 complaint.
Trump strategist and veteran GOP consultant Paul Manafort set up the company, CMZ Ventures, LLC, in 2008. The company was eventually used to park hundreds of millions of dollars from Ukrainian gas tycoon Dmirty Firtash in offshore investment vehicles.
In a whistleblower complaint filed with the New York State Department of Labor in 2009, former CMZ employee Scott Snizek accused the company of “blatant violations of employment law.”
According to Snizek, the company failed to withhold taxes from employees’ paychecks, withheld those paychecks for months at a time, and ridiculed those who brought concerns to their supervisors’ attention.
Snizek’s allegations shed light on the inner workings of a company run by a consultant who is now leading Trump’s efforts to secure delegates at the Republican National Convention in July.
The complaint and accompanying documentation also provide additional details on how CMZ and a handful of related companies structured deals that Firtash’s critics say allowed him to shield his immense wealth from authorities in Ukraine.
Snizek called CMZ “an elaborate smoke-and-mirrors act played by well-known individuals, who used their experience, high level relationships and influence to avoid suspicion as to their pattern of behavior while they go after the biggest deals in real estate without remorse for the damage they cause to those who they get involved” in a letter to Sens. Charles Schumer (D., N.Y.) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D., N.Y.) alerting them to the complaint.
Snizek listed 23 other companies that he identified as either closely related to, different iterations of, or parties to CMZ’s real estate investment activities.
“With no defining reference points to distinguish new corporations, it appears that the corporations were formed by the members, for the sole purpose of serving as pass thru conduit or as shell corporations to avoid responsibilities encountered through conducting business,” he wrote.
Snizek identified one of those “shell corporations” as ZMC Partners LP, which, like CMZ, took its name from the initials of its three principals: Manafort, former Trump Organization employee Brad Zackson, and New York real estate investor Arthur Cohen.
According to a partnership agreement referenced in Snizek’s complaint, ZMC Partners was a joint venture between Manafort’s ZMC Investors LP and Group DF, Firtash’s holding company.
The initial terms of the agreement said Group DF would invest $200 million in the partnership. Its total value would be about $1 billion.
Snizek’s complaint and the ZMC partnership agreement came to light during a lawsuit filed by former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko against Firtash, Manafort, and other individuals and entities involved in their transactions.
At the time, Manafort was serving as a senior adviser to recently-ousted Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, a political ally of Russian president Vladimir Putin.
Other documents released during Tymoshenko’s lawsuit reveal additional companies and business ventures affiliated with or run by Manafort as a means of investing Firtash’s fortune in real estate ventures in the United States and elsewhere.
A federal judge eventually dismissed allegations that Manafort, Firtash, and others had violated federal racketeering laws. However, the documents released during the suit shed new light on their financial arrangements.
The ZMC partnership agreement, one of those documents, hints at the use of a web of companies to enable those activities.
“In order to facilitate investment by certain investors, [ZMC Investors] or an Affiliate thereof may establish one or more additional collective investment vehicles or other arrangements,” the agreement noted.
The amorphous structure of CMZ and its affiliated entities likely resulted in violations of labor and tax law, Snizek said in his complaint.
“Tax violations and related employment violations of New York City, State, and Federal laws, will likely found in regard to the business practices of the partners,” he wrote.
“Due to the players involved, a potential cascade of additional violations will likely be uncovered as well involving interstate and international employment law, foreign representation registration, money laundering, wiring crime, Securities and Exchange Commission violations, and violations of interstate and international limited liability laws” Snizek added.
The New York Department of Labor said it could not comment on or confirm the existence of specific complaints lodged with the department.
In addition to Snizek’s complaint, documents released during Tymoshenko’s lawsuit show that the department was investigating the possibility that CMZ had failed to report wages to state authorities.
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