LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Prosecutors and defense attorneys selected a 12-member jury on Tuesday [7-31-18] to weigh the fate of Paul Manafort, U.S. President Donald Trump’s former 2016 campaign chairman, in the first trial to arise out of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe. The jury of six men and six women will hear testimony in federal court in Virginia in the trial of Manafort, who faces charges that he hid tens of millions of dollars earned in Ukraine in offshore accounts and defrauded banks for loans. Four alternate jurors, three women and one man, also were chosen. Opening statements in the closely watched case were set to begin later on Tuesday.
–Nathan Layne, Sarah N. Lynch, Karen Freifeld, “Jury chosen in trial of former Trump campaign chief Manafort,” Reuters, July 31, 2018 3:11 am