Maybe this has already been covered but there is this interesting reveal in Mueller’s case against Manafort. Tad Devine, former senior adviser to Sen. Bernie Sander’s (I-Vt.) 2016 campaign for president, shows up in the just released exhibit list multiple times in emails, memos and invoices, with Manafort, Rick Gates and Konstantin Kilimnik, going back at least to 2006, when he worked with Manafort on the campaign of former pro-Russian Ukrainian president, Viktor Yanukovych.
According to the New York Times, Devine severed ties with Yanukovych in 2012 after the Ukrainian leader jailed a political opponent. Five of the emails included in the exhibit list were sent in 2014 — after Yanukovych's ouster — by Devine to Manafort associates Rick Gates and Konstantin Kilimnik. (Gates and Kilimnik have also been indicted by Mueller; Gates has reached a plea agreement and is cooperating with the investigation.)
Since the emails' contents have not been released, it's unclear why Devine was exchanging Ukraine-related communications long after his supposed departure and less than six months before he joined the Sanders campaign in late 2014.
Devine is a prinicipal in the Washington, D.C., political consulting firm Devine Mulvey Longabaugh, which operates domestically and internationally. He did not return a call from Seven Days.
While the contents of the documents are not revealed, the exhibit list includes the names of senders and recipients and subject lines.
5. 2006.01.03 Memo P. Manafort, T. Devine, V. Yanukovych, et al reMessages for January Next Wave of Television and Radio Ads
6. Devine Mulvey Longabaugh Invoices to Davis Manafort (2010, 2014)
7. 2010.02.03 Email T. Devine to P. Manafort re Election Night Speech
8. 2010.02.15 Email T. Devine to P. Manafort, et al re Job Well Done
Case 1:18-cr-00083-TSE Document 142 Filed 07/18/18 Page 1 of 21 PageID# 2204
Perhaps there is nothing criminal in Devine’s association with Manafort et al, but it certainly does raise questions and fits into a narrative that says the Russians were working all the angles to undermine Hillary Clinton’s campaign for president, including the possibility of infiltrating the Sanders campaign. Vanity Fair suggests that “Devine’s presence in Mueller’s case against Manafort smells less like collusion than it reeks of the swamp” and is a “broader indictment of Washington’s foreign-lobbying culture.” Every day brings more intrigue.