LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “An accountant for U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort testified on Friday [8-3-18] that she prepared his tax returns despite her concerns about the propriety of classifying money he transferred from overseas as loans. U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis asked the accountant, Cynthia Laporta, whether she was testifying under an immunity agreement with the government because she was concerned that she could be prosecuted. She answered, ‘Correct.’ Laporta testified she knew an accounting treatment for a loan was wrong when preparing Manafort’s tax return for 2014. ‘I very much regret it,’ she told the courtroom.”
-Sarah N. Lynch, Nathan Layne, “Accountant testifies about problems with Trump ex-aide Manafort’s taxes,” Reuters, August 3, 2018 3:05 am