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Manafort Explains Mysterious Phone, Why He Had Three Passports

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Paul Manafort, the indicted former campaign chairman of President Donald Trump, explained in a pre-trial court filing why he traveled to China and other countries with a mobile phone registered to an alias, and why he had three passports.

Prosecutors cited the phone and multiple passports in saying that Manafort posed a risk of fleeing the U.S. after his Oct. 27 indictment on charges that he and his right-hand man, Rick Gates, concealed their work as agents of Ukraine, laundered millions of dollars and hid offshore accounts.