Manafort and Deripaska maintained a business relationship until at least 2009, according to one person familiar with the work. How much work Manafort performed under the contract was unclear. Trump asked Manafort to resign after AP revealed that Manafort had orchestrated a covert Washington lobbying operation until 2014 on behalf of Ukraine’s ruling pro-Russian political party. For the $10 million contract, Manafort did not use his public-facing consulting firm, Davis Manafort. Manafort’s work with Deripaska continued for years, though they had a falling out laid bare in 2014 in a Cayman Islands bankruptcy court.

Source: Washington Post March 22, 2017 10:09 UTC