Paul Manafort, former campaign manager for President Trump, leaves the U.S. District Courthouse in Alexandria on March 8. I didn’t pursue a law degree to learn how to launder money for human traffickers, opioid kingpins or corrupt public officials. Anonymous companies are ubiquitous in most money-laundering schemes, and in the allegations against Trump campaign associates Paul Manafort and Richard Gates. Here's what he noticed in the indictment against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. Twelve of the 13 law firms approached offered advice on how to bring the possibly illicit money into the United States, recommendations that typically involved setting up a string of anonymous shell companies.

Source: Washington Post March 29, 2018 13:18 UTC