8/16/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The Special Counsel’s Office has almost three times the number of exhibits it wants to show a jury in Paul Manafort’s next criminal trial compared with what it used in his Virginia case. The evidence for the two trials largely doesn’t overlap, according to a court filing Thursday [8-16-18] from Manafort’s legal team. The two criminal cases that President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager faces do overlap in how they hinge on his alleged political consulting work in Ukraine. But the filing on Thursday shows just how expansive an investigation Robert Mueller’s team has conducted on Manafort, and how the next trial could be just as revelatory as the first. In Manafort’s Virginia trial, which began on July 31, prosecutors presented nearly 400 financial records, emails and other documents to the jury. Manafort’s team says the prosecutors have ‘well over’ 1,000 pieces of evidence lined up for the DC federal case, set to go to trial in September. The judge in DC told the prosecutors on Thursday to ‘review’ their evidence collection ‘with an eye towards streamlining the presentation of its case.’ The reveal of the amount of evidence prosecutors are preparing came in a court filing Thursday.”

Katelyn Polantz, “Mueller’s team has 3 times the evidence for Paul Manafort’s next trial than his current trial,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, August 16, 2018 8:31 pm