Paul Manafort (Credit: AP/Matt Rourke) Paul Manafort, the second of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign managers, is in serious legal jeopardy. The Washington Post reported on Wednesday that during his five-month control of the Trump campaign, Manafort offered a Kremlin-linked Russian oligarch multiple “private briefings” on the status of the U.S. election. Less than two weeks before Trump clinched the GOP nomination, Manafort wrote an email to an intermediary of aluminum magnate Oleg Deripaska to ask if the Basic Element founder would like to be regularly updated on the progress of the campaign. “If he needs private briefings we can accommodate,” Manafort wrote on July 7, 2016. Deripaska is reportedly among the 2-3 oligarchs Russian President Vladimir Putin turns to on a regular basis. Little more than a year later, Manafort’s Virginia residence was raided by the FBI in the predawn hours.