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NYT: Skadden Paid $11M To Settle Claim Arising From Manafort's Ukraine Work
By Josh Kovensky
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May 11, 2020 1:50 p.m.
The New York Times has an answer to a mystery first launched by Ukrainian financial disclosures last week.
White shoe law firm Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom paid out at least $11 million to settle allegations stemming from an operation imprisoned former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort ran to whitewash the Ukrainian government’s 2011 imprisonment of a political opponent, the paper reports.
Ukrainian public financial disclosures showed last week that former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and her lawyer Serhiy Vlasov declared around $5.5 million in “foreign income” from Reid Collins & Tsai, a law firm specializing in plaintiff-brought, professional liability suits.
The Times reported that Tymoshenko had contemplated bringing a case over the firm’s “role in aiding her political prosecution,” and that the settlement would “avert a suit over its role in justifying her imprisonment by a political rival.”
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/nyt-skadden-paid-11m-to-settle-claim-arising-from-manaforts-ukraine-work
So again why is this firm allowed to operate........becuase they do mergers...............if I were to do this, or you were to do this we would be in jail............
