Former Trump Campaign manager Paul Manafort on CNN’s State of the Union during the campaign.

Former Trump Campaign manager Paul Manafort is facing a Connecticut bar investigation for acting as an unregistered agent in service of a foreign state and numerous other dirty deeds in service of his pro-Russia Ukrainian masters.

Massachusetts lawyer J. Whitfield Larrabee submitted a 63-page complaint embedded below) against Manafort on April 17th. He had this to say about Trump’s campaign manager to ethics officials:

“Mr. Manafort is a lobbyist for dictators and torturers. He has ice running through his veins. His own daughter described the family as living on “blood money.” It is not surprising that Manafort was Trump’s campaign manager at a time when the Russians were working to steal our democracy.”

It took longer for the Connecticut authorities letter to arrive by mail, than for them to issue this decision.

Next, a panel consisting of two lawyers and one non-lawyer will review the case, and they have the authority to conduct a public hearing.

It’s not easy to get past the initial stage of these sorts of proceedings with the Connecticut bar.

They list 10 reasons why complaints will be summarily dismissed in their grievance process.

Larrabee wrote in his initial complaint about Manafort to the bar: