- The special counsel Robert Mueller obtained a search warrant against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort as recently as March 9, new court documents show.
- The search warrant was related to “ongoing investigations that are not the subject of the current prosecutions involving Manafort.”
- The revelation indicates Mueller’s focus on Manafort is now shifting from examining his Ukraine lobbying work to possible collusion with Russia while he was chairman of President Donald Trump campaign in 2016.
The special counsel Robert Mueller obtained a new search warrant against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort less than a month ago, according to court documents filed on Thursday.
Mueller’s office made the revelation in an opposition it filed to Manafort’s recent motion to compel the government to turn over un-redacted versions of search and seizure warrants it had obtained against him. Mueller’s office said that after Manafort first raised the issue, the US government gave the defense copies of six affidavits — three of them had no redactions, and the other three had minimal redactions.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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