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....This has many democracy watchers concerned, since many consultants are not committed to the platforms of their political clients and show little concern about anything other than earning paychecks. Some have even gotten in the way of U.S. interests.
Paul Manafort, of Davis Manafort political consultancy, was reportedly the target of a National Security Council complaint to his onetime client, former U.S. presidential candidate John McCain.
U.S. officials were unhappy with Manafort’s work in Ukraine during the 2004 presidential election campaign and 2006 parliamentary election, according to The New York Times.
In late 2005, Manafort recruited Philip Griffin to clean up the image of Viktor Yanukovych and the Party of Regions leading up to the 2006 parliamentary campaign.
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https://www.kyivpost.com/article/content/ukraine-politics/most-influential-expats-philip-griffin-85465.html
many articles mentioning him:
August 2016:
Kilimnik was recruited to join Manafort’s team by a former IRI official named Philip M. Griffin, who had worked with Kilimnik at the institute. When IRI officials found out, they asked Kilimnik to resign for violating the nonprofit’s moonlighting prohibition. Several people around IRI say they suspected the institute regarded Kilimnik as too closely allied with Russia — even before he went to work for Akhmetov.
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/paul-manafort-ukraine-kiev-russia-konstantin-kilimnik-227181
September 2017, just before Manafort’s indictment:
Mr. Manafort is working on the Kurdish referendum with Philip M. Griffin, a longtime associate, who is in Erbil ahead of the vote, according to the spokesman for Mr. Barzani.
Mr. Griffin is based in Kiev, and worked for Mr. Manafort until 2011, primarily on behalf of the Russia-aligned president of Ukraine at the time, Viktor Yanukovych.
He also helped run a program for foreign ambassadors at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland last July, through which the Russian ambassador at the time, Sergey I. Kislyak, met with Jeff Sessions, then an Alabama senator and now Mr. Trump’s attorney general.
Mr. Manafort’s work for Mr. Yanukovych and Mr. Sessions’s meetings with Mr. Kislyak are now subjects of interest for congressional investigators and Mr. Mueller’s team.
Mr. Griffin did not respond to requests for comment.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/20/us/politics/manafort-kurdish-referendum.html
October 2017:
"I have every confidence that Paul and Rick will be vindicated by the judicial process currently ongoing in the U.S.," said Philip Griffin, Manafort's longtime representative in Ukraine. "I am quite taken by the fact that this has nothing to do with the president or any alleged collusion between the Trump presidential campaign and Russia — and that this is the result of a politically driven fishing expedition."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/ukrainians-cheered-by-news-of-manaforts-indictment/2017/10/30/d1ecbb12-bd77-11e7-9294-705f80164f6e_story.html?utm_term=.217f9294de3b
He lives and works in Kiev:
