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According to the Treasury Department, the Trump campaign’s chairman shared polling data with the Kremlin in 2016.
On Wednesday, the New York County District Attorney announced a sixteen-count indictment alleging Paul Manafort, President Trump's former campaign chairman, committed offenses relating to residential mortgage fraud and and other financial crimes. The full indictment is provided here and below.
Paul Manafort's defense team has filed a sentencing memorandum in U.S. v. Paul J. Manafort, Jr, the case tried in the Eastern District of Virginia in summer 2018. Manafort was convicted on eight charges related to fraudulent financial dealings. His lawyers argue that, "Mr.
On Wednesday, the special counsel's office filed a partially redacted supplemental memorandum in U.S. v. Manafort, in which the special counsel describes additional information from Rick Gates regarding the special counsel's determination that Manafort breached his plea agreement and intentionally lied to the government and grand jury on matters concerning his interactions with Konstantin Kilimnik. The memo is available below.
Paul Manafort's defense team has filed its sentencing memo in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The document is available here and below. The special counsel's sentencing memo is available here.
The special counsel's office has filed its sentencing memo in the Paul Manafort case in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The memo, along with a lengthy section of exhibits, is available below.
On Wednesday, Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that Paul Manafort made intentionally false statements to the special counsel’s office while subject to a cooperation agreement. Accordingly, Judge Jackson ruled that “the Office of Special Counsel is no longer bound by its obligations under the plea agreement, including its promise to support a reduction of the offense level in the calculation of the U.S.
Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Demers annouced that the law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP has entered into a settlement with the Department of Justice regarding its liability for violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), specifically concerning its work for the government of Ukraine, which was commissioned in part by Paul Manafort.
I was focused yesterday on the indictment of Natalia Veselnitskaya and only considered briefly the apparently inadvertent disclosures by Paul Manafort's lawyers concerning their client's contacts with a business associate with ties to Russian intelligence.
Hint: It’s not quite vindication for President Trump.