Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort passed internal Trump campaign polling data to Konstantin Kilimnik, a former business associate of his who has ties to Russian intelligence, prosecutors alleged in a court filing unsealed on Tuesday.
Prosecutors withdrew from a cooperation agreement with Manafort in November after accusing him of lying repeatedly. The subject of those lies had remained confidential and was only made public Tuesday due to a formatting error by Manafort’s defense attorneys that exposed text in the court filing they intended to redact.
The court filling also revealed that Manafort and Kiliminik, who had worked together for years to advance Russian interests in Ukraine prior to Trump’s candidacy, "may have discussed a Ukraine peace plan on more than one occasion" once Manafort joined the campaign in 2016.
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