California Man Doesn’t Want Neighbors to Know He Lent Paul Manafort $1 Million
- SoCal man says link to Trump would harm business, friendships
- Special counsel is pushing to learn source of $1 million loan
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A Southern California man is so worried he’ll be ostracized by friends and business associates for lending money to President Donald Trump’s former campaign chief that he’s fighting U.S. prosecutors’ demand that he reveal his identity, according to a new court filing.
The lender is “a U.S. citizen residing in Southern California, where President Trump is highly unpopular,” according to the filing on Thursday in response to a request by Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s prosecutors. They are asking a Nevada company, Woodlawn LLC, to identify the ultimate source of $1 million that it lent to the family of Paul Manafort, the ex-campaign chairman.