Treasury: Manafort associate passed 'sensitive' campaign data to Russian intelligence

Treasury Department links Paul Manafort to Kilimnik to Russian intelligence

Konstantin Kilimnik, a Russian and Ukrainian consultant and associate of ex-President Donald Trump's campaign chairman, shared sensitive info with Russian intelligence services, the US says.

The New Russia Sanctions Resolve a Mystery That Mueller Left Unanswered

According to the Treasury Department, the Trump campaign’s chairman shared polling data with the Kremlin in 2016.

Russia was given Trump campaign polling data in 2016, US reveals

The statement was perhaps the most direct link the US government has ever drawn between the Trump campaign’s inner workings and the Kremlin’s intelligence services.

U.S. has new intel that Manafort friend Kilimnik gave Trump campaign data to Russia

From NBC News. View the full context on memeorandum.

U.S. has new intel that Manafort pal gave Trump campaign data to Russia

Paul Manafort was chair of the Trump campaign for part of 2016. Kilimnik had worked for him in Ukraine. U.S. officials say Kilimnik is a Russian spy.

US: Russia was given Trump polling data in 2016

By Eric Tucker | Associated PressWASHINGTON — It was one of the more tantalizing, yet unresolved, questions of the investigation into possible connections between Russia and Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign: Why was a business associate of campaign chairman Paul Manafort given internal polling data — and what did he do with it?A Treasury Department statement Thursday offered a potentially significant clue, asserting that Konstantin Kili…