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Even though Manafort was associated with foreign government figures it took being associated with the U.S President to be investigated. It didn't matter before... having a paper trail was ok, no one cared.

It's likely people such as that don't even realize they are creating a paper trail.

"Paper trail? There was no paper! How could there be a trail!?"

E-mail especially is very easy to discover.

The "e" in "e-mail" stands for "evidence." :)

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