Manafort Led Ex-Chancellor to Vow Discretion for a Fee
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Alfred Gusenbauer
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Former Austrian Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer promised to help Paul Manafort carry out a discreet lobbying campaign to help pro-Russian Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych’s image in the West in exchange for a fee of as much as 30,000 euros a month.
Gusenbauer was willing to help Manafort assemble “a small chorus of high level European third-party endorsers and politically credible friends” to promote the idea of a Ukraine under Yanukovych that was closer to Europe than Russia, according to a filing by Special Counsel Robert Mueller briefly unsealed Wednesday in Washington federal court.