it is simply 'innocent before proven guilty'. a great american ideal.

also, there are proof dugged up by the great american press.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/15/us/politics/paul-manafort-...

"Handwritten ledgers show $12.7 million in undisclosed cash payments designated for Mr. Manafort from Mr. Yanukovych’s pro-Russian political party from 2007 to 2012"