The Questionable Math Behind Manafort’s Extravagant Home Renovations

There were the Oriental rugs worth $934,000, the four Range Rovers, the antiques—even $1.37 million in clothes. The federal indictment of Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, accuses him of laundering millions in foreign payments to pursue a “lavish lifestyle” in the U.S., especially in the Hamptons, where he has a house.

What it doesn’t explain—or highlight—are the stratospheric payments he made to home improvement companies when his renovation work was estimated at far less.