Word: manafort
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Napolitan gushed in his 1972 memoir, "((Marcos)) is bright, knowledgeable, handsome, charismatic -- the kind of candidate you like to work with." At least Napolitan had the belated good taste to turn down the Marcos account in 1986. Instead, the aging dictator's last hurrah was handled by Black, Manafort, Stone & Kelly, a firm established in the afterglow of helping elect Ronald Reagan in 1980. This created a bizarre situation in which the Reagan Administration was overtly backing Cory Aquino (managed by Sawyer Miller, a Democratic firm) while some of the President's own political handlers were trying to prop...
Even the most blatant instances of influence peddling went virtually unnoticed. Paul Manafort, later a leading campaign adviser to President Bush, used his connections at HUD to ensure funding for an unwanted $43 million rehabilitation of dilapidated housing in Seabrook, N.J. Not only was he a partner in the development firm involved on the project, but he also received $326,000 in fees for his trouble. The matter went unreported for three years. Are there any lessons to be learned from the HUD fiasco? Offered one Washington reporter: "Just because something's silent, that doesn't mean it's asleep...
Dukakis released a memo by the firm of Charles R. Black, Paul J. Manafort and Roger J. Stone which boasted of the company's influence inside the administration and listed more than a dozen contacts in Bush's office...
...Black, Manafort partners have woven such an intricate web of connections that the strands become entangled at times. Lobbyist Kelly served as finance chairman of the National Democratic Institute, a public-interest organization established by Congress to promote democracy in underdeveloped countries. The institute recently sent observers to try to ensure a fair election in the Philippines. Yet Kelly's firm, for a reported $900,000 fee, represents Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, who stands accused of having stolen the vote. Manafort for one sees no conflict. He points out that the firm urged Marcos to try to make the elections...
...political firm, Black, Manafort represents Democrats and Republicans alike--and sometimes candidates running for the same seat. Kelly, for instance, is doing some fund raising for Democratic Senate Candidates John Breaux in Louisiana, Bob Graham in Florida and Patrick Leahy in Vermont. Atwater and Black are consultants for the Republican opponents in these contests. In the race for the 1988 Republican presidential nomination, Atwater advises Bush, while Stone advises Kemp. Stone and Atwater's offices are right across the hall from each other, prompting one congressional aide to ask facetiously, "Why have primaries for the nomination? Why not have...