Manafort and Gates’s struggle to turn a PDF into a Word doc created a paper trail

Manafort and Gates’s struggle to turn a PDF into a Word doc created a paper trail

It was 2015, and Trump campaign chair to-be Paul Manafort had a problem. For years, he’d been flush with cash paid by Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych for his firm’s consulting work. When Yanukovych fled to Russia in 2014, however, that money dried up. According to special counsel Robert Mueller’s latest indictment (pdf), Manafort’s savings were…