AP A Republican lawmaker likened the Trump administration’s discontinued child separation policy at the US-Mexico border to the children of Paul Manafort, Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman. Manafort, who faces increased scrutiny after allegedly breaching his plea agreement to charges of conspiracy and obstruction of justice in the special counsel’s investigation, is the father of […]
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What Paul Manafort’s highly unusual move to brief Trump’s team on his discussions with Mueller reveals about his strategy
Reuters Justice Department veterans are flummoxed that lawyers representing Paul Manafort, the former chairman of President Donald Trump’s campaign, are still in touch with Trump’s lawyers following Manafort’s guilty plea. “It is absolutely not normal for a convicted felon and now cooperator to continue to loop in a potential target’s attorneys on the relationship with […]
The jury now deliberating Paul Manafort’s bank fraud case asked the judge a clarifying question that might concern the prosecutors
Dana Verkouteren via AP Jury deliberations began Thursday in the Virginia bank and tax fraud trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. The jury sent a note to the judge asking for clarification about four topics, including a definition of the term, “reasonable doubt,” the standard to convict in a criminal trial. Legal experts […]
Paul Manafort’s Fashion Choices Top This Week’s Internet News Roundup
Last week, President Trump’s former campaign chairman went to court—and the internet put his clothes on trial. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b64af8bf6d47809bff3a53a/master/pass/Manafort-975362502.jpg
The first week of Paul Manafort’s high-stakes criminal trial took off with a bang: Here’s everything you need to know
AP The first week of Paul Manafort’s criminal trial rapidly took off, as the prosecution used some of Manafort’s closest financial associates to begin mapping out a case for the charges against him. Manafort is the former chairman of President Donald Trump’s campaign. He is the defendant in two criminal indictments brought by the special […]
A federal judge could soon revoke Paul Manafort’s bail after Mueller charged him with witness tampering
AP Photo/Matt Rourke US District Judge Amy Berman Jackson has scheduled a hearing for June 15 to decide whether to revoke bail for Paul Manafort, the former chairman of President Donald Trump’s campaign. Manafort has been on supervised release since he was first indicted by the special counsel Robert Mueller’s office last year. But the […]
The 3 reasons why a witness tampering charge could deal a huge blow to Manafort’s defense
Thomson Reuters Paul Manafort, the former chairman of President Donald Trump’s campaign, has been accused of attempting to tamper with witness testimony. If the special counsel Robert Mueller has enough evidence to prove Manafort did what he has been accused of, there are three reasons it could strike a blow to his defense, and also […]
How Manafort’s inability to convert a Word doc to PDF helped prosecutors
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson) Yesterday, federal prosecutors unsealed a new indictment against former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort. The indictment contains new evidence that Manafort hid millions of dollars in overseas income from US authorities, and it charges Manafort and his associate Richard Gates with numerous counts of tax and bank fraud. The indictment also […]
Paul Manafort’s efforts to renegotiate his bail just got him into deeper trouble
Paul Manafort, Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman who was charged with money laundering last fall in the Russia investigation, is facing a new claim of bank fraud. The claim surfaced in a document released Friday night that details bail negotiations between Manafort and special counsel Robert Mueller. The document says Manafort wants to withdraw two […]
Cyprus, a former press secretary, and the RNC: We now know more about Manafort’s Trump Tower notes
Thomson Reuters Notes taken by President Donald Trump’s campaign chairman during a meeting at Trump Tower in June 2016 with a Russian lawyer and Russian lobbyist were described in a transcript released by Congress earlier this week. The notes reference Cyprus, the RNC, and Juleanna Glover — a press secretary for former Vice President Dick […]