2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Special counsel Robert Mueller’s office netted its first prison sentence on Tuesday [4-3-18] and disclosed a memo showing it had been explicitly authorized to look beyond the presidential election, bringing into sharper focus its wide-ranging probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 election. A lawyer who admitted to lying to Mr. Mueller’s investigators was sentenced to 30 days in prison by U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who said the attorney ‘knew better’ but had repeatedly misled investigators. ‘These are not mistakes, they are lies,’ she told a packed Washington courtroom Tuesday morning. That came hours after Mr. Mueller’s prosecutors revealed an August memo showing their office had been tasked with investigating former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, both for his work for the Ukrainian government and for allegations that he colluded with Russian officials in their efforts to interfere in the 2016 election.”
– Aruna Viswanatha and Del Quentin Wilber, “Robert Mueller Notches Prison Sentence for Lawyer, Reveals Key Memo on Paul Manafort,” The Wall Street Journal, April 3, 2018 7:48pm