2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A U.S. judge on Monday [7-23-18] delayed the criminal trial of President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort until next week, and made public the identity of five witnesses granted immunity to testify. U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III also said the office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller must provide a list of about 30 witnesses to lawyers for Manafort, who had sought a delay in his trial scheduled to start on Wednesday [7-25-18] on bank and tax fraud charges. Manafort, a long-time Republican operative and businessman, appeared in court for the hearing in a green prison jumpsuit. He has pleaded not guilty to 16 counts of bank and tax fraud and failure to file reports of foreign bank and financial accounts. The trial, the first to originate in the special counsel’s investigation of Russia’s role in the 2016 election, was scheduled to start on Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Ellis said the delay would give Manafort’s attorneys more time to review material recently submitted by prosecutors, but he warned it would not be a lengthy process.”
–Sarah N. Lynch, “Judge agrees to delay Manafort trial until next week,” Reuters, July 23, 2018 5:39 pm