FBI/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The likely incoming chairman of the House Judiciary Committee warned President Donald Trump that ‘even dangling a pardon’ for his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort ‘would fortify a claim or a charge of obstruction of justice’…Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team informed a federal judge on Monday [11-26-18] that Manafort has ‘breached’ his plea agreement with the Justice Department by lying to the FBI and Mueller’s office two months after he started cooperating in the Russia probe. Manafort was thought to be the star cooperator in the special counsel’s ongoing probe into potential collusion between Russian operatives and Trump associates during the 2016 presidential campaign and transition. Manafort pleaded guilty to conspiracy and witness tampering on September 14, almost a year after he was first charged and following his conviction by a jury in a separate but related case on eight tax and banking crimes.”
–Kate Sullivan, “Nadler warns Trump ‘dangling a pardon’ for Manafort is ‘close to obstruction of justice’,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, November 27, 2018 10:46 pm