Paul Manafort got caught allegedly committing bank fraud because he didn't know how to convert a PDF to a Word document
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- Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort appeared to have difficulty converting a Microsoft Word document into a PDF, and it was one of the ways investigators found out about his alleged attempts to commit bank fraud.
- According to email exchanges cited by special counsel Robert Mueller's office, Manafort asked his longtime associate Rick Gates multiple times to convert falsified financial records into different file formats.
- Those exchanges are now being used by Mueller as evidence of Manafort's and Gates' illegal activities.
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Investigators were tipped off, in part, about former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort's illicit activities because he appeared not to know how to convert a PDF document to a Word document. See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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