According to the indictment papers, Manafort is up for dodgy conduct when he was in bed with Hillary Clinton’s Podesta Bros. whose company is actually referred to in the document
Anyway, perhaps they're just trying to shake him up a little because I've never heard of anyone going up on money-laundering charges for this sort of thing; after all, he's not a kingpin cocaine racketeer or anything like that. The idea is to
get you to comply, rather than to do you for
failure to comply. Otherwise, it seems to me every international businessman in America would be in jail.