PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP PEOPLE/UKRAINE: “Former Trump adviser Paul Manafort was removed from a plane at Miami International Airport before it took off for Dubai because he carried a revoked passport, officials said Wednesday [March 23, 2022]… Manafort, 72, led former President Donald Trump’s campaign for several months during the 2016 presidential race but was ousted in […]
Category: Paul Manafort
12/23/2020
PARDONS/PAUL MANAFORT/ROGER STONE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump doled out clemency to a new group of loyalists on Wednesday, wiping away convictions and sentences as he aggressively employed his power to override courts, juries and prosecutors to apply his own standard of justice for his allies. One recipient of a pardon was a family member, Charles Kushner, […]
8/18/2020
2016 ELECTION/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Members of the 2016 Trump campaign represented a major counterintelligence risk to the U.S. due to their frequent contacts with individuals with close ties to the Russian government, a bipartisan Senate investigation has concluded… A substantial portion of the report focuses on the connections of onetime Trump campaign chairman Paul […]
3/8/2019
PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION: “I feel very badly for Paul Manafort. I think it’s been a very, very tough time for him. But if you notice, both his lawyer — a highly respected man and a very highly respected judge — the judge said there was no collusion with Russia. It’s had nothing to do with […]
2/11/2020
COURTS/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Is this the Judge that put Paul Manafort in SOLITARY CONFINEMENT, something that not even mobster Al Capone had to endure? How did she treat Crooked Hillary Clinton? Just asking! https://t.co/Fe7XkepJNN“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, February 11, 2020 8:47 pm […]
11/13/2019
2016 ELECTION/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “In the summer of 2016, Paul Manafort, Donald Trump’s campaign chairman, proclaimed Midwestern states like Michigan and Wisconsin to be critical to the campaign’s strategy. Behind the scenes, he was actively trying to execute that strategy — sometimes in highly unorthodox ways. According to three people close to the […]
6/27/2019
COURTS/LEGAL/PARDONS/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Paul J. Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign manager, was escorted into a courtroom on Thursday [6-27-19] to face state fraud charges that the Manhattan district attorney has brought in an effort to ensure Mr. Manafort could still face prison time even if he is pardoned for his federal crimes. Appearing in […]
6/21/2019
JARED KUSHNER/MEDIA/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort told Fox News host Sean Hannity that he would never give up information on President Donald Trump or senior White House adviser Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, according to newly unsealed texts between the two men in 2017 and 2018. A court unsealed more […]
5/23/2019
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A Chicago bank chairman has been indicted in Manhattan on a charge that he issued millions of dollars in high-risk loans to President Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, in an effort to obtain a senior position in the administration, federal authorities said on Thursday [5-23-19]. Prosecutors said the chairman, Stephen M. […]
3/13/2019
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said he feels ‘badly’ for his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who was sentenced to additional prison time on Wednesday [3-13-19] and charged with new crimes in New York…Manafort was ordered Wednesday to serve an additional 43 months on federal conspiracy charges, bringing his total sentence between […]
3/8/2019
DEVIN NUNES/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA: “I feel very badly for Paul Manafort. I think it’s been a very, very tough time for him. But if you notice, both his lawyer — a highly respected man and a very highly respected judge — the judge said there was no collusion with Russia. It’s had nothing to do with […]
3/8/2019
PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Both the Judge and the lawyer in the Paul Manafort case stated loudly and for the world to hear that there was NO COLLUSION with Russia. But the Witch Hunt Hoax continues as you now add these statements to House & Senate Intelligence & Senator Burr. So bad for our […]
3/8/2019
2016 ELECTION/COURTS/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump on Friday [3-8-19] seized on a portion of a federal judge’s remarks during the sentencing of his former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, in a financial crimes case to again criticize the Russia investigation and falsely declare a finding of ‘no collusion.’ Speaking to reporters before he left […]
3/7/2019
PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “When Paul Manafort entered an Alexandria, Virginia, courtroom on Thursday [3-7-19], he did so in a wheelchair. And dressed in a green prison jumpsuit. That picture of Manafort, who was sentenced Thursday to 47 months in jail for a panoply of financial crimes having to do with his long relationship with Ukraine, was […]
2/26/2019
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Paul J. Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, is now in the sights of the Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., whose office is set to bring charges against him. A federal jury in Virginia already convicted Mr. Manafort in a financial fraud scheme that could send him to prison […]
2/22/2019
LEGAL/NEW YORK/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The Manhattan district attorney’s office is preparing state criminal charges against Paul J. Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, in an effort to ensure he will still face prison time even if the president pardons him for his federal crimes, according to several people with knowledge of the matter. Mr. […]
2/21/2019
COURTS/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, will be sentenced for bank and tax fraud on March 8, according to a court filing posted on Thursday [2-21-19], just days before he is due to be sentenced in a separate case for lobbying violations. Manafort, 69, could spend the rest […]
2/15/2019
COURT/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A federal judge revealed more about her reasoning in finding Paul Manafort had lied about his contacts with his Russian associate and that Konstantin Kilimnik was pertinent to special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation for multiple reasons, according to a newly released redacted transcript Friday of a sealed court hearing earlier this […]
2/15/2019
COURTS/PAUL MANAFORT/ROGER STONE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A federal judge has placed a gag order on longtime Donald Trump associate Roger Stone and attorneys involved in his criminal case, though Stone’s ability to speak publicly isn’t completely restricted…They, their clients and even Stone are also not allowed to speak in and around the courthouse. In her order, Jackson […]
2/4/2019
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign manager Paul Manafort will be sentenced for the first time on March 13, a federal judge in Washington who approved his guilty plea said Monday [2-4-19]. The court date sets up one of the most anticipated bookends of Robert Mueller’s special counsel investigation into […]
1/17/2019
PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump’s personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani backtracked on Thursday [1-17-19] from a surprising assertion he had made a night earlier that left open the possibility that Trump campaign aides might have coordinated with Russia in its election interference in 2016…Mr. Giuliani was seeking to clarify an interview […]
1/15/2019
PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman, was working through mystery intermediaries in January 2017 to get people appointed in President Donald Trump’s new administration, according to a court filing released Tuesday [1-15-19]. Manafort described the hiring effort to Rick Gates, his longtime deputy, who in turn revealed the […]
1/15/2019
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort spoke to a federal grand jury last fall about his communications with Konstantin Kilimnik, including regarding an in-person meeting with the Russian associate and an email with him, special counsel Robert Mueller revealed Tuesday [1-15-19]. The 31-page filing gives an unprecedented window into Mueller’s […]
1/15/2019
PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Paul Manafort, the convicted former chairman of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, told a business associate in January 2017 he was using middlemen to get people appointed to the Trump administration, according to a court filing on Tuesday [1-15-19]. U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller had been given until Monday [1-14-19] by […]
1/10/2019
2016 ELECTION/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said Thursday [1-10-19] he knew nothing about his former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, sharing poll data with a Russian before the 2016 election…Manafort’s lawyers inadvertently revealed the accusation from Justice Department special prosecutor Robert Mueller, who is investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election, that Manafort […]
12/11/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Lawyers for President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort told a U.S. judge on Tuesday [12-11-18] they needed more time to evaluate prosecutors’ allegations that Manafort lied to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team and breached his plea deal. During a U.S. District Court hearing in Washington, Manafort’s lawyer […]
12/7/2018
PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Special counsel Robert Mueller said Friday [12-7-18] that Paul Manafort breached the terms of his guilty plea by repeatedly lying to prosecutors about his contacts with the Trump administration, bringing the longtime GOP operative’s problems directly into the Trump White House. Mueller’s charges against Manafort had until now largely […]
12/7/2018
GOP/MICHAEL COHEN/PAUL MANFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Court filings on Friday [12-7-18] regarding Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen reveal the ways in which the special counsel’s investigation can endanger President Trump’s future. Special Counsel Robert Mueller also revealed on Tuesday [12-4-18] that former national security adviser Michael Flynn offered ‘substantial assistance’ to the Russia investigation […]
12/7/2018
2016 ELECTION/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Special counsel Robert Mueller said Friday [12-7-18] that former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort lied about five major issues after agreeing to cooperate with prosecutors, including his ‘contact with administration officials.’ In a heavily redacted document, Mueller also said Manafort lied about his interactions with Konstantin Kilimnik. Mueller […]
12/3/2018
CHINA/PAUL MANAFORT/SOUTH AMERICA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In mid-May 2017, Paul Manafort, facing intensifying pressure to settle debts and pay mounting legal bills, flew to Ecuador to offer his services to a potentially lucrative new client — the country’s incoming president, Lenín Moreno. Mr. Manafort made the trip mainly to see if he could broker a deal […]
12/3/2018
NATIONAL SECURITY/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “America may get its most intimate look yet inside Robert Mueller’s secretive Russia investigation in the next four days, with a series of disclosures that have the potential to be greatly damaging for President Donald Trump. Court filings focusing on Trump’s first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, on […]
11/30/2018
FBI/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort will tentatively face sentencing on March 5, a federal judge ruled on Friday [11-30-18], after the U.S. special counsel investigating whether Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia said Manafort had breached his plea agreement. U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team must […]
11/30/2018
MICHAEL COHEN/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The special counsel’s office and President Trump found themselves in rare agreement on Friday [11-30-18] over Mr. Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort: Nothing is off the table. Prosecutors for the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, said in court that they have not decided whether to charge […]
11/30/2018
FBI/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort will tentatively face sentencing on March 5, a federal judge ruled on Friday [11-30-18], after the U.S. special counsel investigating whether Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia said Manafort had breached his plea agreement. U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team must […]
11/28/2018
PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump declined in a new interview to rule out the possibility that he could pardon Paul Manafort, his former campaign chairman…The President’s comments come following special counsel Robert Mueller’s accusation that Manafort violated his plea agreement and lied to Mueller’s team after being found guilty on eight […]
11/28/2018
PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday [11-28-18] he had not ruled out granting a pardon to his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who has pleaded guilty to a range of federal charges from money laundering to unregistered lobbying…Prosecutors for the special counsel investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 […]
11/28/2018
2016 ELECTION/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday [11-28-18] he had not ruled out granting a pardon to his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who has pleaded guilty to a range of federal charges from money laundering to unregistered lobbying…Prosecutors for the special counsel investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 […]
11/27/2018
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 […]
11/27/2018
PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Tuesday [11-27-18] continued to rail against Robert Mueller, attempting to sow doubt about the special counsel and his team and suggesting that ‘heroes’ will emerge from the investigation into Russian election meddling. In a string of tweets, Trump accused Mueller of being a ‘conflicted prosecutor […]
11/27/2018
FBI/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, staunchly denied ever meeting with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on Tuesday [11-27-18], after the Guardian newspaper published a story alleging the two met at least three times, including once in 2016…In a statement, a spokesperson for the Guardian said the ‘story relied on a […]
11/27/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A lawyer for Paul Manafort, the president’s onetime campaign chairman, repeatedly briefed President Trump’s lawyers on his client’s discussions with federal investigators after Mr. Manafort agreed to cooperate with the special counsel, according to one of Mr. Trump’s lawyers and two other people familiar with the conversations. The […]
11/27/2018
PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Paul Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, repeatedly lied to federal investigators in breach of a plea agreement he signed two months ago, the special counsel’s office said in a court filing late on Monday [11-26-18]. Prosecutors working for the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, said Mr. Manafort’s […]
11/27/2018
PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump on Tuesday [11-27-18] lobbed familiar insults and accusations at the special counsel investigation, a day after prosecutors said his former campaign chairman repeatedly lied to investigators in breach of a previous plea agreement. The continuing investigation is a ‘Phony Witch Hunt,’ carried out by a ‘conflicted’ prosecutor […]
11/27/2018
PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump’s behavior isn’t doing much to bolster White House assurances that he’s got nothing to worry about from Robert Mueller’s probe, after a series of potentially ominous turns in the Russia investigation. The President’s recent barrage of tweets and comments and testimony from sources close to him — […]
10/23/2018
2016 ELECTION/PAUL MANAFORT/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Under an unusual arrangement, Paul Manafort’s attorney has kept Donald Trump informed about the former campaign chairman’s meetings with prosecutors investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election and, according to Trump’s lawyer, Manafort has not said anything damaging about the president. Rudy Giuliani, who represents Trump […]
9/19/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Wednesday [9-19-18] morning insisted he had no concerns about former campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s recent agreement to cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller…As part of a guilty plea struck last Friday [9-14-18], Manafort agreed to cooperate fully with Mueller’s probe into Russian interference and whether […]
9/19/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday [9-19-18] he is not worried about what his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who is cooperating with the U.S. special counsel’s probe into Russian election meddling, will tell prosecutors, as long as he is truthful. ‘No, I’m not,’ Trump told reporters at […]
9/19/2018
LOBBYING/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said Wednesday [9-19-18] that he’s not concerned about what his former campaign chairman is telling investigators in the Russia probe. Trump told reporters at the White House that if Paul Manafort tells the truth to special counsel Robert Mueller’s team then he doesn’t see a problem. […]
9/14/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump got some very bad news Friday [9-14-18], when his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort pleaded guilty to two counts, including one related to witness tampering. The real danger for Trump lies in Manafort’s decision to cooperate with the Justice Department. The revelation that Manafort has joined the […]
9/14/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “After months of vowing to fight for his innocence, former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort conceded to committing several federal crimes and agreed to cooperate with the Justice Department, including in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Manafort pleaded guilty in […]
9/14/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “As a federal prosecutor, I heard dozens of defense attorneys criticize the use of accomplice testimony in criminal trials. The arguments are familiar—unseemly witnesses lie to curry favor with unscrupulous prosecutors motivated by a desire for conviction. They suggest to juries that these ‘snitches’ are the real criminals in […]
9/14/2018
PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Paul Manafort had something very, very special that special counsel Robert S. Mueller III wanted so badly: His cooperation. Today, as he promised to plead guilty to a set of reduced charges, Manafort agreed to cooperate ‘fully, truthfully, completely, and forthrightly’ with the special counsel’s investigation. Documents Mueller might […]
9/14/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort agreed to cooperate with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election as part of a plea deal, prosecutors said on Friday [9-14-18]. Manafort, 69, pleaded guilty in federal court in Washington to two criminal […]
9/14/2018
DEMS/LEGAL/NEW YORK/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Federal prosecutors in New York are weighing criminal charges against former Obama White House counsel Greg Craig as part of an investigation into whether he failed to register as a foreign agent in a probe that is linked to former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, according to sources familiar with the […]
9/13/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman embattled by criminal indictments, may no longer fight the charges related to his Ukrainian lobbying operation. He and the special counsel’s office are close to a deal for a guilty plea ahead of his upcoming trial, according to a source familiar with the matter. […]
9/13/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LOBBYING/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “It was the summer of 1986, and Paul Manafort, then a top-tier Washington lobbyist, counted no fewer than 10 foreign governments and political groups as clients. He directed American media campaigns for them, met with officials in the White House, State Department and Congress on their behalf and strategized about how […]
9/13/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The prospect of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort cutting a plea deal with special counsel Robert Mueller’s office to avoid a second criminal trial set to open next week doesn’t concern President Donald Trump or his legal team, Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani told POLITICO…Giuliani said Trump and his […]
9/12/2018
PAUL MANAFORT/POLLS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Special counsel Robert Mueller’s approval rating for handling the Russia investigation stands at 50% in a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS. That outpaces President Donald Trump’s approval rating on the matter by 20 points. The poll is CNN’s first since the conviction of former Trump campaign chairman Paul […]
8/31/2018
INTELLIGENCE/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LOBBYING/PAUL MANAFORT/SENATE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Washington lobbyist W. Samuel Patten pleaded guilty Friday [8-31-18] to acting as an unregistered foreign lobbyist, and admitted to lying to the Senate Intelligence Committee and funneling a Ukrainian oligarch’s money to Donald Trump’s Presidential Inaugural Committee. Patten’s plea and cooperation agreement is connected to special counsel Robert Mueller’s ongoing investigation […]
8/30/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The 12 jurors who found Paul Manafort guilty of eight crimes had little knowledge of the case before the trial began. But several of the people called for jury duty for Manafort’s trial in Virginia last month did have opinions about the case before they reported to court, according to a […]
8/29/2018
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 […]
8/28/2018
CRIME/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A banker who previously worked with Paul Manafort but was never charged related to Manafort’s bank fraud schemes reported a burglary at his home early Tuesday [8-28-1-8] in New York, the New York Police Department confirmed to CNN. David Fallarino told the NYPD he was sleeping when heard the front door of […]
8/28/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Lawyers for former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort said on Tuesday [8-28-18] that they would seek to move his second trial, scheduled to start next month, out of Washington, D.C., due to concerns that a jury from the Democratic stronghold would be biased. Their request for a change of venue […]
8/25/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/NEW YORK/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “A week that began with bad news closed with worse news for President Donald Trump. According to the New York Times, the Manhattan district attorney’s office is currently investigating the Trump Organization. In particular, they are examining the source of the payment to porn star Stormy Daniels, and […]
8/24/2018
PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATIOM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The photos of Paul Manafort’s ostrich and python jackets may make it in front of a jury after all. After prosecutors used the luxury purchases as evidence in the former Trump campaign chairman’s Virginia trial this month but weren’t permitted by the judge to show photos of them to the […]
8/24/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A juror who voted to convict Paul Manafort and who is also a supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump has some advice for Trump if he is considering whether to pardon his former campaign chairman: don’t do it. Paula Duncan is so far the only juror to speak out since Manafort […]
8/23/2018
PARDONS/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “While Paul Manafort was on trial for charges of serious financial crimes, President Donald Trump asked his legal team about the prospect of pardoning his former campaign chairman, according to Rudy Giuliani, the president’s personal lawyer. But Trump ultimately agreed with his legal team to delay the decision […]
8/23/2018
JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/MICHAEL COHEN/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump blamed the Justice Department on Thursday [8-23-18] for the investigations surrounding him, criticized the deal struck with his former lawyer Michael D. Cohen and lashed out at Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who countered with a rare public rebuke of the president. Mr. Trump also praised Paul […]
8/23/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “When Paul Manafort’s jury of 12 Northern Virginians couldn’t reach a unanimous agreement on 10 criminal charges, it was because of one juror. A photocopied version of the jury’s original handwritten verdict form, released Thursday [8-23-18] by the federal court, confirms that Manafort’s jury hung 11-to-1 on 10 counts of foreign banking […]
8/23/208
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The one juror who prevented a conviction of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort on all 18 criminal charges did not trust any of the witnesses and exasperated other members with her reasoning, a juror in the trial told Reuters. The comments from Paula Duncan, the only juror so far to […]
8/23/2018
JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump drew a sharp rebuttal from his attorney general on Thursday 8-23-18] after he gave a scathing assessment of Jeff Sessions as being unable to take control of the Justice Department. Trump intensified his criticism of the Justice Department in a Fox News interview aired on Thursday […]
8/22/2018
MEDIA/PARDONS/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump is not currently looking to pardon Paul Manafort after he was found guilty on eight felony charges, the White House said Wednesday [8-22-18]. But according to a Fox News reporter who asked the president earlier in the day, Trump is indeed considering letting his former campaign chairman off […]
8/22/2018
PARDONS/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani have talked about the potential political repercussions of pardoning former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, The New York Times reported Wednesday [8-22-18]. Giuliani told the Times that pardoning Manafort, who on Tuesday was found guilty on eight of 18 financial crimes, […]
8/22/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The jury in the trial of Paul Manafort would have convicted the former Trump campaign chairman on all 18 criminal charges if not for one juror who had questions about the reasonable doubt standard of guilt, a juror told Fox News on Wednesday [8-22-18]…The jury on Tuesday [8-21-18] found Manafort […]
8/22/2018
MICHAEL COHEN/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The trial of Paul Manafort was not about election conspiracy or presidential obstruction of justice. Michael D. Cohen pleaded guilty to crimes that had nothing to do with Russia’s campaign to sabotage the 2016 presidential race. Yet the deepening legal peril for both men could have significant implications for […]
8/22/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump on Wednesday [8-22-18] praised his just-convicted former campaign chairman for refusing to ‘break’ and cooperate with federal prosecutors investigating Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, expressing appreciation for the personal loyalty of a felon found guilty of defrauding the United States government. In a series of tweets the […]
8/22/2018
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/MICHAEL COHEN/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “White House press secretary Sarah Sanders maintained Wednesday [8-22-18] that President Donald Trump ‘did nothing wrong’ relating to the hush money payments made to women who claimed affairs with him during the 2016 campaign…Sanders declined to answer additional questions about what the President knew about the payments and […]
8/22/2018
DEMS/GOP/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Mounting legal problems confronting President Trump and the GOP are rattling the political map nationwide, forcing Democratic and Republican candidates alike to rethink election strategies just weeks before the midterm. And the debate around impeachment — or as many Democrats prefer to frame it, the ‘culture of Republican corruption’ in […]
8/22/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A large number of counts, ten, could not even be decided in the Paul Manafort case. Witch Hunt!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 22, 2018 8:34 am […]
8/22/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I feel very badly for Paul Manafort and his wonderful family. ‘Justice’ took a 12 year old tax case, among other things, applied tremendous pressure on him and, unlike Michael Cohen, he refused to ‘break’ – make up stories in order to get a ‘deal.’ Such respect for a brave man!” […]
8/21/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort has been found guilty on eight counts of financial crimes, a major victory for special counsel Robert Mueller. But jurors were unable to reach a verdict on 10 charges, and Judge T.S. Ellis declared a mistrial on those counts. Manafort was found […]
8/21/2018
DEMS/GOP/MICHAEL COHEN/PAUL MANFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Two courtroom decisions within minutes of each other, each with eight convictions, against President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer and campaign chairman engulfed Capitol Hill on Tuesday [8-21-18], where Republicans downplayed the connection of both cases to the White House while Democrats seized on the President’s potential role and […]
8/21/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In two courtrooms 200 miles apart on Tuesday [8-21-18], President Trump’s almost daily attempts to dismiss the criminal investigations that have engulfed his White House all but collapsed. Mr. Trump has long mocked the investigations as ‘rigged witch hunts,’ pursued by Democrats and abetted by a dishonest news media. […]
8/21/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Paul Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, was convicted on Tuesday [8-21-18] in his financial fraud trial, bringing a dramatic end to a politically charged case that riveted the capital. The verdict was a victory for the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, whose prosecutors introduced extensive evidence that […]
8/21/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump briefly slammed the investigation into Russian interference during the 2016 campaign during his rally in West Virginia on Tuesday [8-21-18], hours after his campaign chairman Paul Manafort was convicted on charges stemming from that investigation…Trump largely avoided the topic of the investigation during the first […]
8/21/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “White House counsel Don McGahn’s 30 hours of conversations with special counsel Robert Mueller’s team have unnerved President Donald Trump, who didn’t know the full extent of McGahn’s discussions, two people familiar with his thinking said. The meetings only add complications to the already-fraught relationship between the President […]
8/21/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was convicted on Tuesday [8-21-18] of eight counts of financial wrongdoing, giving Special Counsel Robert Mueller a victory in the first trial arising from his investigation of Russia’s role in the 2016 U.S. election. After almost four days of deliberations, a 12-member jury found […]
8/29/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team wants to review emails between Paul Manafort and one of his former lawyers — messages that would typically be protected by attorney-client privilege. Manafort’s emails are a special case, Mueller’s team argued in a court motion Wednesday [8-29-18]. Attorney-client privilege doesn’t apply when the client enlists […]
8/20/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “After three full days of deliberations, the jury in the trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort still has not returned a verdict. Jurors will return Tuesday [8-21-18] at 9:30 a.m. ET. Manafort is charged with 18 counts of tax evasion, bank fraud and hiding foreign bank accounts in […]
8/20/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The jury weighing more than a dozen bank and tax fraud charges against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort failed to return a verdict after its third day of deliberations on Monday [8-20-18], leading the defense team to sound a note of optimism after the weekslong trial. The 12-member jury, which […]
8/20/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The jury in the bank and tax fraud trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort ended its third day of deliberations on Monday [8-20-18] without reaching a verdict. The judge said the jury would reconvene on Tuesday [8-218-18] morning. The case is the first to go to […]
8/17/2018
PARDONS/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump refused to say on Friday [8-17-18] whether he would pardon Paul Manafort as a federal jury in Alexandria ended its second day of deliberations without reaching a verdict in Mr. Manafort’s financial fraud trial. The jurors are weighing what prosecutors have called overwhelming evidence that Mr. Manafort, Mr. […]
8/17/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In a break with convention, President Donald Trump weighed in on a criminal trial as the jury considered a verdict on Friday [8-17-18], calling the tax and bank fraud case against Paul Manafort ‘very sad’ and lauding his former campaign chairman as a ‘very good person.’ A federal court jury […]
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 […]
8/16/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The jury in the trial of former Donald Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort did not reach a verdict after its first full day of deliberations. Just before 5 p.m. ET, jurors sent a note to Judge T.S. Ellis with four questions, including one asking him if he could ‘redefine’ for them […]
8/16/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump has insisted that Paul Manafort’s federal trial has nothing to do with him, and his name has made only cameo appearances during the trial. Which is why courtroom observers were startled on Thursday [8-16-18] morning to hear the presiding judge, T.S. Ellis III, ask a ‘Mr. Trump’ if […]
8/16/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Greg D. Andres looked like any ordinary guest at the Westin hotel here, standing near the valet in flip-flops and a white Notre Dame boxing T-shirt, waiting for a Postmates delivery from Shake Shack. The moment would be unremarkable save for Mr. Andres’s role as the lead prosecutor for the special […]
8/16/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The jury in the bank and tax fraud trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort ended its first day of deliberations on Thursday [8-16-18] without reaching a verdict but with several questions, including how to define ‘reasonable doubt.’ The six men and six women considered the charges against […]
8/15/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Jurors are set to begin deliberating Thursday [8-16-28] morning whether to convict President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort of bank fraud and tax evasion. The high-stakes prosecution of Manafort by special counsel Robert Mueller’s team reached its conclusion with Wednesday’s closing arguments — with prosecutors accusing Manafort of […]
8/15/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Prosecutors urged jurors in the trial of Paul Manafort to focus on financial records and Manafort’s ‘lies’ — and to set aside personal feelings about a tainted star witness — as the government offered its closing argument on Wednesday [8-15-18]. Pushing back, lawyers for the former Trump campaign chairman argued that […]