WASHINGTON — Look closely enough, and the document charging Paul Manafort with money laundering, tax evasion and foreign lobbying reads less like a 12-count federal indictment and more like the ultimate spendthrift whodunit. It is the kind of tab that could raise the Botoxed eyebrows of Beverly Hills, New York and Washington, all places where dizzying displays of wealth are not abnormal but instead usually the price of admission.

Mr. Manafort, the Trump campaign’s former chairman and — at least for now — its most infamous shopper, spent millions on Range Rovers, landscaping, audiovisual equipment, home improvement and clothing, dispensing money thought to be paid through shell companies to a veritable alphabet soup of dozens of unnamed vendors, including Vendor C, an antique rug store — rugs? — in Alexandria, Va., that accrued $934,350, and Vendor H, a Beverly Hills clothing store that amassed $520,440.

It did not take long for reported names of the vendors to emerge.

On Tuesday at House of Bijan, a Beverly Hills clothing store Mr. Manafort reportedly frequented, Nicolas Bijan said that President Trump had not made it in yet. Photos of the other presidents and powerful men who shopped there lined the walls: George W. Bush and his father, George Bush; Barack Obama; Bill Clinton, who was just there a few weeks ago; Bill Gates and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Was there a photograph of Mr. Manafort?

“No, unfortunately, not one of Mr. Manafort,” said Mr. Bijan, 26, the son of Bijan Pakzad, the store’s founder. With a sly smile, he would not say whether Mr. Manafort had been a client.