Prosecutors suspect Paul Manafort might be trying to secretly claw back about a million dollars he agreed to hand over to the government for his financial crimes — and he could be using the same type of shell company at the core of his legal problems to fake a loan.
A mysterious shell company named Woodlawn LLC — which formed in the middle of special cousel Robert Mueller's investigation into Manafort in August 2017 — claimed in court that it deserves $1 million from Manafort's forfeiture proceeding. The company says Manafort, who was Donald Trump's presidential campaign chairman, still owes that amount to pay back a 2017 mortgage loan.
Woodlawn has only been affiliated with"a manager who apparently resigned shortly after verifying the initial petition and the company's lawyer who subsequently took over that function." The company has no address of its own.11 looming questions now that Mueller's investigation is overThe Justice Department says it needs to seek evidence about Woodlawn before it can determine what the company may be owed.
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