{"id":651,"date":"2017-11-19T21:17:34","date_gmt":"2017-11-19T21:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nortonspeaks.com\/?p=651"},"modified":"2017-11-19T21:17:34","modified_gmt":"2017-11-19T21:17:34","slug":"star-witness-treason-trial-involving-trumps-campaign-chair-shot-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nortonspeaks.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/19\/star-witness-treason-trial-involving-trumps-campaign-chair-shot-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Witness In Treason Trial Involving Trump\u2019s Campaign Chair Was Shot Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BY\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/occupydemocrats.com\/author\/docnorton\/\"><strong>SHEILA NORTON<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h5>\u00a0SHEILA NORTON IS A JOURNALIST AND CONSULTANT SPECIALIZING IN POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC AFFAIRS.<\/h5>\n<p>PUBLISHED ON\u00a0MARCH 23, 2017<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On March 22, 2017,\u00a0 documents surfaced showing that former Trump Campaign Chair\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/03\/21\/politics\/paul-manafort-ukraine\/\">Paul Manafort had received at least $750,000<\/a>\u00a0in illegal payments from former Ukrainian President\u00a0Victor Yanukovych, who is about to be tried for treason in absentia in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The next day on March 23rd,\u00a0 Denis Voronenkov was\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2017\/03\/23\/anti-putin-exile-gunned-down-in-the-streets-of-ukraine.html\">shot to death<\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>in the streets of Kiev\u00a0in broaddaylight<\/strong>, just a few weeks after he said he would testify against Yanukovych and his cohorts \u2014 Manafort included.<\/p>\n<p>This is only the latest in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/mikehayes\/russian-lawyer-plunges-from-window?utm_term=.ol525ml6xq#.bbnl1yapKb\">a\u00a0list of Russian dissidents<\/a>\u00a0to be murdered or die under mysterious circumstances since the U.S. Election. The timing of\u00a0Voronenkov\u2019s murder in conjunction with the latest revelations about Manafort \u2014 a man he was likely to incriminate \u2014 makes this latest tragedy all the more suspect.<\/p>\n<p>News first broke of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2016\/08\/15\/politics\/clinton-slams-trump-over-manafort-report\/\">Manafort\u2019s involvement in\u00a0Russian criminal activity<\/a>\u00a0came\u00a0in August when Ukraine\u2019s Anti-Corruption Bureau revealed\u00a0that Trump\u2019s then Campaign Chair had been implicated in a shadow accounting scheme that allegedly earned him $12.7 million in illegal payments from President Yanukovych\u2019s Party of Regions.<\/p>\n<p>Manafort resigned four days later, however as we all now know,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/03\/22\/politics\/us-officials-info-suggests-trump-associates-may-have-coordinated-with-russians\/\">Russian agents continued to work on behalf of the Trump campaign<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0assassin also wounded\u00a0Voronenkov\u2019s body guard (who is expected to recover) before being shot by authorities. The assassin, who died in the hospital soon after, was a soldier in\u00a0Russia\u2019s National Guard and carried \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/en.censor.net.ua\/news\/433238\/voronenkovs_killer_was_former_national_guard_soldier_source\">a certificate proving his combatant status<\/a>\u201d \u2014 fueling speculation that the assassination order came from the highest reaches of the Russian government.<\/p>\n<p>We all hope for a swift end to the killing of Russian dissidents. The revelations of Trump\u2019s many ties to the Russian government this year, however, seem to be just getting started.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BY\u00a0SHEILA NORTON \u00a0SHEILA NORTON IS A JOURNALIST AND CONSULTANT SPECIALIZING IN POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC AFFAIRS. 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