LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. prosecutors on Wednesday [8-29-18] asked a judge for more time to decide whether to retry former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort on 10 criminal charges that a jury deadlocked on last week. Wednesday was Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s deadline to decide but the government said that Manafort lawyers’ request for a 30-day extension to file their post-trial motions made it difficult to meet that deadline. The prosecutors said in a filing in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Virginia, that they would like the deadline extended to one week after the court has ruled on Manafort’s motions. Manafort’s lawyers do not object to a delay, the prosecutors said. The charges include seven counts of bank fraud and three counts of failing to disclose foreign bank accounts.”
–Reuters Staff, “U.S. seeks more time to decide on ex-Trump aide Manafort’s retrial on 10 charges,” Reuters, August 29, 2018 1:47 pm