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By David Voreacos and Neil Weinberg

August 14, 2018 at 2:52 AM UTC

Updated on

August 14, 2018 at 11:44 AM UTC

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Paul Manafort turned to Jared Kushner for help in an attempt to secure a Trump administration job for a Chicago banker at the center of Manafort’s fraud trial.

Manafort, Donald Trump’s campaign manager in 2016, got a quick response.