Sarah: 1972: Paul Manafort and Roger Stone are active in the College Republicans. Their candidate to lead the group, John "Terry" Dolan, runs against Karl Rove, whose key aide was Lee Atwater. Rove won. 1973: Trump, 27, meets Roy Cohn, a former aide to Sen. Joe McCarthy who went on to become Trump's lawyer and mentor. At the time, the Justice Department was suing the Trumps for not renting to black people, and Trump hired Cohn, a New York attorney "who represented New York power brokers, from the Yankees owner George Steinbrenner to the mob boss Carlo Gambino," to represent them in the matter. 1977: Stone, 25, wins the presidency of the Young Republicans in a campaign managed by Manafort. 1979: Roger Stone meets Roy Cohn and Trump. 1980: Manafort, Stone and Charles Black (all Reagan campaign officials) open their lobbying shop in Washington, D.C.Their first client, Stone recalled, was none other than Donald Trump. Oct. 1993: Trump and Stone testify before the House Native American Affairs subcommittee on Indian Gaming. 1999: Stone is working for Trump as chief political adviser as he toys with running for president. By that time, Manafort has accumulated significant experience in presidential campaigns. Early 2000s: Manafort begins working for Donbas billionaire Rinat Akhmetov, Ukraine's richest oligarch. 2006: Manafort begins working for the Russian aluminum billionaire Oleg Deripaska, who has close ties to Vladimir Putin. The Associated Press reported that Manafort signed a $10 million with Deripaska in 2006 to "influence politics, business dealings and news coverage inside the United States, Europe and former Soviet republics to benefit President Vladimir Putin's government." March 2007: Manafort and his partners (political consultant Rick Davis and lobbyist Rick Gates) set up a private equity fund, Pericles Emerging Market Partners, to buy smaller Ukrainian firms and merge them into larger ones and then sell them. The fund is registered in the Cayman Islands. 2010: Manafort helps elect Yanukovych as president of Ukraine. 2014: Yanukovych is forced to flee Ukraine for Russia in the face of widespread public protests. March 28, 2016: Trump campaign hires Manafort to work on his campaign. August 2, 2016: Manafort and Kilimnik meet at the Grand Havana Club, an upscale cigar bar in Manhattan, to talk "caviar," which is believed to be a reference to earlier payments made to Manafort by Deripaska. August 2016: Manafort's daughter's phone is hacked and hundreds of her text messages are eventually posted on a darknet website. The texts reveal the daughters were worried about the work he did in Ukraine and that someone had tried to blackmail him, suggesting they could reveal a secret meeting Manafort had supposedly arranged for Trump in 2012 with a Yanukovych ally.
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