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Former Trump Adviser Lobbying for Opponent of Manafort Client

  • Barry Bennett represents Ukrainian politician Yulia Tymoshenko
  • Lobbying campaign against Tymoshenko part of Manafort charges
Yulia Tymoshenko in Kyiv, Ukraine on Oct. 19, 2017. 

Yulia Tymoshenko in Kyiv, Ukraine on Oct. 19, 2017. 

Photographer: Sergii Kharchenko/NurPhoto via Getty Images
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A former campaign aide to President Donald Trump is lobbying on behalf of a former Ukrainian prime minister who figures in the indictment of Paul Manafort.

Barry Bennett’s firm Avenue Strategies Global LLC will provide government relations, public relations and strategic consulting services, including making contacts with members of the Trump administration and Congress, on behalf of Yulia Tymoshenko, who served as prime minister of Ukraine in 2005 and from 2007 through 2010. She was one of the targets of an undisclosed influence campaign led by Manafort, prosecutors allege.