In what Republicans are calling a "liberal hatchet job," the New York Times released a front-page report on Sunday detailing the financial dealings of Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort as a rogue political operative who has worked abroad in many countries to help power the governments of the foreign leaders who pay him.

In what Republicans are calling a "liberal hatchet job," the New York Times released a front-page report on Sunday detailing the financial dealings of Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort as a rogue political operative who has worked abroad in many countries to help power the governments of the foreign leaders who pay him.

One such leader, according to the Times, is former Ukrainian president (and ally of Russia) Viktor Yanukovych.

“Donald Trump has a responsibility to disclose campaign chair Paul Manafort's and all other campaign employees' and advisers' ties to Russian or pro-Kremlin entities, including whether any of Trump's employees or advisers are currently representing and or being paid by them," the Hillary Clinton campaign said in a press statement.

But it isn't just the ousted Ukrainian president who has paid Manafort for his political services and helped him to purchase properties in Alexandria, Palm Beach, and the Hamptons.

Here we take a look at three other times cash has changed hands from a questionable foreign leader back to Trump's right-hand man.

A central role in France's 'Karachi affair' Nicolas Sarkozy, Wikimedia Commons

After serving as an adviser to Presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush in the 1980s, Manafort found himself in need of some work when in 1994, he received $90,000 working in connection to former French president Nicolas Sarkozy. Sarkozy was the budget minister for then-Prime Minister Édouard Balladur, who authorized the sale of three Agosta 90 submarines to Pakistan through a shadowy arms dealer named El-Assir for an estimated $950 million. Illegal kickbacks from that money were used to fund Balladur's election campaign in '95, the same election Manafort was brought on and paid to advise.

Friends with 'Blood Diamonds' guerrilla Jonas Savimbi Jonas Savimbi, Wikimedia Commons

Manafort received at least $600,000 from Jonas Savimbi, an Angolan guerrilla leader who led a brutal civil war effort as the UNITA army leader against communists in the African country. Although Savimbi used money from illicit diamond sales to fund his tactics, Manafort had the soldier re-branded in Washington, D.C. “linguist, philosopher, poet, politician, warrior ... one of the few authentic heroes of our time,” and effectively channeled U.S. dollars into a disastrous war effort. Savimbi's leadership resulted in the displacement or death of "hundreds of thousands" of Angolan innocents. Thousands of children were kidnapped by UNITA and forced into the army as "porters, sex slaves or fighters" before the death of Savimbi in 2002.

Close ties to Congo warlord Mobutu Sese Seko Mobutu Sese Seko, Wikimedia Commons

Manafort accepted $1 million to conduct a P.R. makeover for Congo dictator Mobutu Sese Seko, as detailed in this 1989 account of the transaction by the Washington Post. It was not unrelated the HUD scandal, in which Manafort received $1,000 an hour to oversee a failed housing project. Mobutu, who was originally recruited in the 1950s by the CIA to overthrow the government, amassed a huge personal fortune over decades as a ruler while his country was ravished by warfare and poverty. He's best remembered for his leopard skin caps, embezzling billions of US dollars, human rights abuses, and "rampant" corruption.

WATCH: Paul Manafort's interview with CNN on Sunday