8/15/2018

2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The evidence against Paul Manafort is ‘overwhelming,’ a prosecutor told jurors during closing arguments in his fraud trial on Wednesday, saying that he hid more than $16 million in income and fraudulently obtained $20 million in bank loans even though, as a trained lawyer, ‘Mr. Manafort knew the law.’ […]

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8/15/2018

2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Paul Manafort had ‘a huge dumpster of hidden money’ abroad, a prosecutor said on Wednesday [8-15-18], urging a jury to convict U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign chief on financial fraud charges based more on a paper trail of evidence than on the testimony of a former protege. […]

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8/14/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “We’ve reached the end. Paul Manafort’s defense team has rested, presenting no evidence and calling no witnesses to testify, including President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman himself. Wednesday [8-15-18] morning, special counsel Robert Mueller’s team and Manafort’s defense lawyers will deliver their closing arguments — sure to be impassioned, detailed speeches […]

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8/14/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The defense rested its case Tuesday [8-14-18] morning in the trial against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort without calling any witnesses, setting the stage for closing arguments Wednesday [8-15-18] morning. Manafort spoke for the first time in court during the trial, saying he will not testify. Manafort told Judge T.S. […]

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8/14/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Attorneys for Paul Manafort rested their case on Tuesday [8-14-18] without calling any witnesses, including the former Trump campaign chairman himself, who told the judge he did not want to testify in his own defense against bank and tax fraud charges. The defense attorneys’ decision means that the closely watched case […]

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8/14/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Paul Manafort’s lawyers declined Tuesday [8-14-18] to call any witnesses to defend him against charges of bank and tax fraud. Mr. Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, also told the judge that he did not want to testify, clearing the way for closing arguments from both sides and the start of […]

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8/13/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TREASURY/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Special counsel Robert Mueller’s prosecutors rested their case against Paul Manafort on Monday [8-13-18] afternoon after calling more than two dozen witnesses in their tax- and bank-fraud case against the former Trump campaign chairman. The final round of testimony from Treasury Department senior special agent Paula Liss lasted only five questions. […]

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8/13/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Prosecutors rested their case Monday [8-13-18] afternoon in the trial against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. Prosecutor Greg Andres announced that the prosecution had finished witness presentation against Manafort after 10 days of testimony from 27 witnesses. The defense has not indicated if it will call any witnesses to the […]

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8/13/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. prosecutors on Monday [8-13-18] rested their case against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort after 10 days of testimony alleging how he avoided taxes on at least $16 million of income and lied to banks to maintain an extravagant lifestyle once his work for pro-Kremlin politicians in Ukraine dried up. […]

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8/12/2018

2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A week before the Trump presidential campaign announced that it had hired Paul Manafort, a Yankees ticket specialist alerted him that his annual season tickets would soon be arriving at his 43rd-floor apartment at Trump Tower in New York. ‘Will you and Kathy be attending opening day?’ the specialist […]

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8/9/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The judge in the trial of U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort expressed contrition on Thursday [8-9-18] to jurors for harsh commentary directed at prosecutors. ‘I may have made a mistake. It has nothing to do with your consideration in this case,’ U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis said […]

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8/9/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The trial of Paul Manafort, U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, is expected to shift focus on Thursday [8-9-18] from his alleged tax evasion to bank fraud as the prosecution’s case heads into its final two days. Prosecutors are expected to call a series of bankers to the stand to […]

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8/8/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “Lawyers for Paul Manafort accused his longtime deputy Rick Gates of having four extramarital affairs and lying about them, a last attempt by the defense to undermine the credibility of the government’s star witness at the fraud trial of Mr. Manafort on Wednesday [8-8-18]. Kevin Downing, the lead lawyer for Mr. Manafort, […]

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8/8/2018

IRS/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman being tried on federal tax and bank fraud charges, didn’t declare more than $16 million in income to the U.S. Treasury over a five-year span, an IRS revenue agent testified Wednesday [8-8-18]. The IRS revenue agent, Michael Welch, told jurors that a large chunk […]

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8/8/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Rick Gates wrapped up his testimony Wednesday [8-8-18] in the trial of his onetime friend and boss, former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, reiterating that the two men conspired to lie on their taxes and defraud banks. Mr. Gates admitted over three days to various crimes, including some he said he […]

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8/8/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Rick Gates has finished three days’ worth of dramatic testimony in federal court against his former business partner, ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort — but not before defense lawyers caused a stir by pressing him for details on his past infidelity. A day earlier, Gates acknowledged having a single extramarital relationship […]

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8/8/2018

2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump says that the criminal trial of his former campaign aide, Paul Manafort, has nothing to do with him. But jurors in a Virginia courtroom heard his name repeatedly on Tuesday [8-7-18]. Trump’s name, his 2016 campaign and his inauguration came up several times during the trial’s […]

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8/8/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Star government witness Rick Gates ended three days of testimony on Wednesday [8-8-18] after admitting he lied, stole money and cheated on his wife, as lawyers for U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort attacked his character. Manafort lawyer Kevin Downing got in a final shot in federal court […]

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8/7/2018

2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Prosecutors in the Paul Manafort trial are evoking a world of swaggering fraud, concealed millions and personal betrayal that allegedly festered in the lives of two big-time political operatives at President Donald Trump’s side for crucial moments of his 2016 general election campaign. In potentially the key moment of Manafort’s […]

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8/7/2018

2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “Kevin Downing, the lead defense lawyer, began cross-examination Tuesday [8-7-18] by hammering at Mr. Gates’s credibility, demanding an exact accounting of when he lied to the government and pleaded guilty to the charge of doing so. Mr. Gates seemed to struggle to articulate that timeline, prompting Judge T. S. Ellis […]

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8/7/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “Rick Gates, the star witness in the federal case against ex-Trump campaign adviser Paul Manafort, on Tuesday [8-7-18] acknowledged having an extramarital relationship in London while working for Manafort as the defense accused him of leading a ‘secret’ and ‘second’ life. For the last two days in court, Gates has testified that […]

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8/7/2018

2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “The star witness in the trial against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort faced tough questioning on cross-examination on Tuesday [8-7-18] about a ‘secret life’ that included an extramarital affair and stealing funds from his former boss. Rick Gates, who served as a right-hand man to Manafort in his political […]

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8/6/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Special counsel Robert Mueller’s star witness, Rick Gates, finally took the stand on Monday [8-6-18], incriminating his former boss Paul Manafort in multimillion-dollar tax evasion, bank fraud and hiding offshore accounts, while also admitting to stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars during a decade on Manafort’s payroll. On the […]

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8/6/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Rick Gates, the key prosecution witness in the tax and fraud trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, testified Monday [8-6-18] he had committed crimes alongside and at the direction of his former partner — and had also stolen from Manafort himself. In stunning testimony at Manafort’s trial on […]

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8/6/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Rick Gates, a longtime business associate of U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, on Monday [8-6-18] testified at trial that he helped Manafort file false tax returns and hide his foreign bank accounts. Gates is expected to be the government’s star witness in its case against […]

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8/3/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Paul Manafort’s longtime bookkeeper testified Thursday [8-2-18] that Mr. Manafort and an associate appeared to use documents that inaccurately inflated their firm’s income to obtain bank loans, a central allegation in the prosecution by special counsel Robert Mueller’s office. Heather Washkuhn also testified that even though she kept close tabs on […]

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8/3/2018

2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Paul Manafort’s accountants testified against the former Trump campaign chairman on Friday [8-3-18], telling jurors that loan amounts were fudged to help him on his taxes and that he did not disclose his financial stake in foreign companies. Testimony from the financial professionals who worked for Manafort are making up […]

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8/3/2018

COURTS/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “An accountant for former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort admitted at Manafort’s tax- and bank-fraud trial Friday [8-3-18] that she filed tax returns she thought contained false information and that she may have committed a crime in doing so. Accountant Cindy Laporta said she had a sense that what Manafort and […]

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8/3/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/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 knew an accounting treatment for a loan was wrong when preparing Manafort’s tax return. The accountant, Cynthia Laporta, said the accounting treatment involved the 2014 tax year. ‘I very much regret it,’ she […]

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8/3/2018

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 […]

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8/2/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A day after describing in detail how millions of dollars in payments from Ukrainian oligarchs enabled Paul Manafort to live in luxury through 2014, federal prosecutors outlined on Thursday [8-2-18] how his financial fortunes reversed so sharply in subsequent years that he made his Manhattan condominium available on Airbnb. Witnesses […]

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8/2/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Prosecutors on Thursday [8-2-18] pressed their bank and tax fraud case against Paul Manafort, presenting testimony and documents to try to prove U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman deceived his lead bookkeeper and a bank about his finances. On the trial’s third day, the prosecution pivoted away from describing Manafort’s […]

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8/1/2018

LEGAL/LOBBYING/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The mandate given to Robert S. Mueller III and his team was broad: to investigate not just Russian election interference but also any related crimes they might unearth. So when this group of seasoned prosecutors began rooting around Washington, they pounced on a ripe target — lobbyists taking millions […]

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8/1/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Prosecution questioning Wednesday [8-1-18] of the former manager of a luxury men’s clothing boutique Paul Manafort frequented, Alan Couture in New York, revealed an intriguing and mysterious development: someone apparently forged invoices from the store. Seeking to establish just how expensive Manafort’s tastes were, Manafort’s team got Maximillian Katzman—the store’s […]

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8/1/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Prosecutors on Wednesday [8-1-2018] introduced into evidence dozens of business, loan and tax-preparation records seized last year from the Virginia condominium owned by Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman now on trial on tax and bank-fraud charges. An FBI agent, Matthew Mikuska, testified that he and about 14 […]

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8/1/2018

PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Looking back on history, who was treated worse, Alfonse Capone, legendary mob boss, killer and ‘Public Enemy Number One,’ or Paul Manafort, political operative & Reagan/Dole darling, now serving solitary confinement – although convicted of nothing? Where is the Russian Collusion?” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 1, 2018 10:35 am […]

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8/1/2018

PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Paul Manafort worked for Ronald Reagan, Bob Dole and many other highly prominent and respected political leaders. He worked for me for a very short time. Why didn’t government tell me that he was under investigation. These old charges have nothing to do with Collusion – a Hoax!” -Donald Trump, […]

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7/31/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Paul Manafort’s trial on financial fraud charges opened on Tuesday [7-31-18] with an effort by his defense team to deflect blame to the government’s star witness in the case, Rick Gates, Mr. Manafort’s longtime political consulting partner. The defense strategy pits the credibility of Mr. Manafort, a former campaign chairman for […]

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7/31/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. prosecutors raised the possibility on Wednesday [8-1-18] that an expected star witness may not testify against President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort even as the judge tried to rein in their portrayal of Manafort’s lavish lifestyle. Testimony in the second day of Manafort’s trial, the first stemming from […]

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7/31/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Prosecutors accused former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort of being a ‘shrewd’ liar who orchestrated a global scheme to avoid paying taxes on millions of dollars, in opening statements that kicked off Manafort’s trial on Tuesday [7-31-18]. Manafort lived an ‘extravagant lifestyle’ fueled by ‘secret income’ that he earned from his […]

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7/31/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A jury was sworn in Tuesday [7-31-18] for the trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, with opening statements on deck in the first case that special counsel Robert Mueller’s team is bringing to trial. The 12-person jury selected for Manafort’s trial includes six men and six women. There are […]

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7/31/2018

2016 ELECTION/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump again attacked Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russia and the 2016 U.S. election on Tuesday [7-31-18], reiterating that his campaign did not collude with Moscow and saying collusion is not a crime anyway. Trump commented hours before his former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, was […]

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7/31/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Prosecutors and defense attorneys selected a 12-member jury on Tuesday [7-31-18] to weigh the fate of Paul Manafort, U.S. President Donald Trump’s former 2016 campaign chairman, in the first trial to arise out of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe. The jury of six men and six women will hear testimony […]

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7/30/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The criminal trial of Paul Manafort that opens in Virginia Tuesday [7-31-18] is just one part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s sprawling Russia probe — but its verdict could have an outsized impact on Mueller’s work. A conviction against Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, who is fighting major bank and […]

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7/30/2018

2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Paul Manafort on Tuesday [7-31-18] will become the first of President Donald Trump’s former aides to go on trial, accused of bank and tax fraud by federal investigators probing Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Despite a focus on financial crimes, the trial could yield politically damaging headlines […]

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7/29/2018

2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Paul Manafort, the veteran Republican political operative and lobbyist who helped run President Trump’s 2016 campaign, is scheduled to go to trial on financial fraud charges starting on Tuesday [7-31-18] in United States District Court in Alexandria, Va. The main points to be aware of: It is the first trial stemming […]

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7/29/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team will take President Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort to court in Alexandria, Va., on Tuesday [7-31-18], in a trial with implications reaching far beyond the immediate charges ranging from tax evasion to bank fraud. The outcome of the trial, which is expected to last three […]

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7/23/2018

2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A U.S. judge on Monday [7-23-18] delayed the criminal trial of President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort until next week, and made public the identity of five witnesses granted immunity to testify. U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III also said the office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller […]

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7/23/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia, has granted the request for five witnesses to testify with immunity in the criminal trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. US District Judge T.S. Ellis is also ordering special counsel Robert Mueller’s team to tell Manafort’s team the nearly 30 witnesses it is […]

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7/12/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Paul Manafort arrived at the jail in Alexandria, Virginia — the William G. Truesdale Adult Detention Center — Thursday [7-12-18] morning, according to a spokesperson for the Alexandria Sheriff’s Office. A mugshot released by the sheriff’s office shows an unsmiling Manafort with graying hair and light facial stubble four weeks after the […]

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7/11/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort has been able to review evidence and is being treated like a ‘VIP’ in jail, prosecutors said on Wednesday [7-11-18], arguing against Manafort’s efforts to postpone his trial on fraud charges. In a filing to a Virginia federal judge overseeing one of […]

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7/6/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Paul Manafort does not want to visit court until his Virginia criminal trial and he waived his right to appear in court for any upcoming hearings in the Eastern District of Virginia, his attorneys wrote in a filing Friday [7-6-18]. No other hearings are currently scheduled before the district court until his […]

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7/5/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Special counsel Robert Mueller’s prosecutors are urging a federal appeals court to reject former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s bid to be released on bail as he prepares for two criminal trials, including one set to begin later this month. In a filing Thursday [7-5-18], Mueller’s team urged the U.S. Court […]

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6/29/2018

FBI/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A personal assistant to Paul Manafort granted the FBI access to a storage locker, allowing the government to secure evidence that President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager is trying to suppress, according to testimony on Friday [6-29-18] in a federal court hearing in Virginia. FBI special agent Jeff Pfeiffer made […]

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6/27/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A search warrant application unsealed on Wednesday [6-27-18] revealed closer links than previously known between President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort and a Russian oligarch with close ties to the Kremlin. In an affidavit attached to the July 2017 application, an FBI agent said he had reviewed tax returns for […]

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6/26/2018

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort was dealt a major loss on Tuesday [6-26-18] when a federal judge who had previously expressed some sympathy for Manafort refused to dismiss charges brought against him by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Judge T.S. Ellis in the U.S. District Court […]

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6/25/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Lawyers for Paul Manafort, Donald Trump’s former presidential campaign manager, said on Monday [6-25-18] they plan to appeal a judge’s decision to jail Manafort while he awaits a criminal trial in Washington later this fall. Judge Amy Berman Jackson in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia […]

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6/22/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A federal judge on Friday [6-22-18] dealt another blow to U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, refusing to dismiss a money laundering charge brought against him by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson’s ruling was the latest setback for Manafort, whose charges stem […]

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6/15/2018

COURT/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A federal judge revoked Paul Manafort’s bail and sent him to jail on Friday [6-15-18] to await trial, citing new charges that Mr. Manafort had tried to influence the testimony of two of the government’s witnesses after he had been granted bail. Mr. Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, had posted […]

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6/15/2018

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump and his allies seized Friday [6-15-18] on the Justice Department inspector general’s report into the Hillary Clinton email investigation to claim special counsel Robert Mueller’s sprawling probe is corrupt and must end. Try telling that to Mueller. Hours after the president thundered from the White House […]

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6/15/2018

HILLARY CLINTON/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Wow, what a tough sentence for Paul Manafort, who has represented Ronald Reagan, Bob Dole and many other top political people and campaigns. Didn’t know Manafort was the head of the Mob. What about Comey and Crooked Hillary and all of the others? Very unfair!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 15, […]

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6/15/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A judge on Friday [6-15-18] sent longtime Republican political operator and businessman Paul Manafort to jail pending trial after a charge of witness tampering, the latest episode in a slow fall from grace of a man who was President Donald Trump’s campaign chairman in 2016. Manafort, a target of Special Counsel […]

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6/12/2018

LAWSUIT/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A Russian oligarch on Monday [6-11-18] got a court to delay his fraud lawsuit against U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort, citing the need to deal more pressing legal matters such as U.S. sanctions on his businesses and criminal trials facing Manafort. Justice O. Peter Sherwood of New […]

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6/8/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Prosecutors have filed a new indictment against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort that also names as a defendant Konstantin Kilimnik, a close business colleague of Manafort’s who prosecutors have said has close ties to Russian intelligence. The indictment includes two new charges against both Manafort and Kilimnik: a count of […]

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6/7/2018

PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The special counsel’s accusation this week that Paul Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, tried to tamper with potential witnesses originated with two veteran journalists who turned on Mr. Manafort after working closely with him to prop up the former Russia-aligned president of Ukraine, interviews and documents show. The two […]

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6/5/2018

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Money laundering, tax evasion, acting as a foreign agent, now witness tampering. Special counsel Robert Mueller has turned up the heat on Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, threatening new criminal charges and asking a judge to put him in jail while he awaits trial…The Justice Department appointed […]

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6/5/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The special counsel’s office has accused former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort of attempting to get witnesses to lie for him in court, and they’ve asked the judge to send him to jail as he awaits his trial, according to a filing in DC District Court Monday [6-4-18] night. One […]

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6/5/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A federal judge on Tuesday [6-5-18] ordered U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, to respond by Friday [6-8-18] to the government’s bid to revoke or revise his release and set a June 15 hearing on the matter, according to a court filing. Special Counsel Robert Mueller said in […]

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6/4/2018

FBI/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Federal prosecutors on Monday [6-4-18] accused President Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, of attempting to tamper with witnesses in his federal tax and money laundering case. In court documents, prosecutors working for the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, said that violated the terms of Mr. Manafort’s release while […]

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6/4/2018

GOP/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican, suggested Monday [6-4-18] that the President should hire a new lawyer if his current one is telling him that he can pardon himself. ‘If I were President of the United States and I had a lawyer that told me I could pardon […]

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6/4/2018

FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Sunday [6-3-18] questioned why the Justice Department or FBI did not notify him during the campaign that Paul Manafort was under investigation, insisting that Manafort would have never been hired if he had known…In a second tweet, Trump downplayed Manafort’s role on his campaign, saying […]

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6/3/2018

JAMES COMEY/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….Paul Manafort came into the campaign very late and was with us for a short period of time (he represented Ronald Reagan, Bob Dole & many others over the years), but we should have been told that Comey and the boys were doing a number on him, and he wouldn’t […]

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6/3/2018

FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As only one of two people left who could become President, why wouldn’t the FBI or Department of ‘Justice’ have told me that they were secretly investigating Paul Manafort (on charges that were 10 years old and had been previously dropped) during my campaign? Should have told me!” -Donald Trump, […]

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5/25/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, lost a bid on Friday [5-25-18] to have certain criminal charges filed against him by Special Counsel Robert Mueller dismissed. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who is presiding over Manafort’s case in Washington, said in a ruling that she will not […]

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5/25/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A trial date for U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, for alleged financial crimes been postponed to July 24 in the Eastern District of Virginia District Court, according to a court filing on Friday [5-25-18]. The judge said the cause of the postponement from July 10 was ‘owing to […]

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5/23/2018

FBI/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A federal judge expressed skepticism on Wednesday [5-23-18] toward a request by lawyers for President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort to suppress evidence seized by FBI agents working for Special Counsel Robert Mueller. The hearing before U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson gave Manafort another opportunity to hinder the […]

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5/22/2018

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/MEDIA/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s defense is going after one of special counsel Robert Mueller’s top deputies in a bid to persuade a federal judge to order a hearing into leaks to the media. In a court filing Monday [5-21-18] night, Manafort’s attorneys singled out prosecutor Andrew Weissmann over […]

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5/17/2018

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The former son-in-law of Paul Manafort, the one-time chairman of President Donald Trump’s campaign, has cut a plea deal with the Justice Department that requires him to cooperate with other criminal probes, two people with knowledge of the matter said. The guilty plea agreement, which is under seal […]

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5/17/2018

2016 ELECTION/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office notified a federal court in Virginia on Thursday [5-17-18] it had filed under seal an unredacted memorandum that is expected to shed light on the scope of his wide-ranging probe into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. The filing, made as part of […]

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5/15/2018

PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former prosecutor Gene Rossi learned to expect lectures and humiliation when he appeared before U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis, who regularly ridiculed his arguments. But when Mr. Rossi returned several years ago from chemotherapy, Judge Ellis—after sternly summoning him to the bench—became tearful as he asked how Mr. Rossi was […]

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5/4/2018

LEGAL/NRA/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump sought to reassure National Rifle Association members at their 2018 annual meeting Friday [5-4-18] that their Second Amendment rights are safe in the midst of a national conversation on gun law reform…Trump also urged the crowd not to become ‘complacent’ heading into the midterm elections as he […]

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4/27/2018

2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has lost his lawsuit claiming that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and special counsel Robert Mueller exceeded their authority in charging him with alleged crimes that he says have nothing to do with the 2016 campaign. A judge said Friday [4-27-18] that Manafort […]

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4/27/2018

2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign manager indicted on tax and lobbying charges, lost his bid Friday [4-27-18] to restrict special counsel Robert Mueller through a civil lawsuit. The order dismissed a civil case Mr. Manafort had brought alleging that the Justice Department had exceeded its authority in establishing […]

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4/25/2018

MEDIA/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A group of news outlets requested on Tuesday [4-24-18] that documents used by special counsel Robert Mueller to obtain warrants in his investigation into Russian election meddling be unsealed by a federal court. The media organizations — which include POLITICO, The Washington Post, The New York Times, the Associated Press […]

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4/18/2018

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A U.S. judge expressed skepticism on Thursday [4-19-18] as a lawyer for President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort sought to convince her to dismiss charges brought by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. During a hearing, U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson questioned Manafort’s attorney Kevin Downing and […]

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5/5/2018

2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel investigating Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, transformed this week what has appeared to be a weakness — his relative lack of independence — into a strength. Since he was appointed in May by Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, the […]

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4/3/2018

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A federal judge tore into all of the legal arguments that a lawyer for President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort made on Wednesday [4-4-18] in his long-shot civil case to convince her that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation has run amok and should be reined in…Manafort filed a […]

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4/3/2018

2016 ELECTION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Robert Mueller, the U.S. Justice Department’s special counsel, is specifically authorized to investigate allegations that Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, colluded with Russia to interfere with the 2016 presidential election, a court filing showed late on Monday [4-2-18]. The court documents also show that Mueller […]

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3/30/2018

PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team last year made clear it wanted former Trump campaign deputy Rick Gates’ help, not so much against his former business partner Paul Manafort, but with its central mission: investigating the Trump campaign’s contact with the Russians. New information disclosed in court filings and to CNN […]

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3/29/2018

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/MICHAEL FLYNN/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “On Wednesday [3-28-18] , The New York Times reported that President Donald Trump’s former lawyer John Dowd floated the possibility that Trump might issue pardons to Michael Flynn and Paul Manafort with their attorneys last year. Meanwhile, CNN has learned there was a discussion within the Department of Justice last […]

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3/28/2018

LEGAL/MICHAEL FLYNN/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A lawyer for President Trump broached the idea of Mr. Trump pardoning two of his former top advisers, Michael T. Flynn and Paul Manafort, with their lawyers last year, according to three people with knowledge of the discussions. The discussions came as the special counsel was building cases […]

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3/15/2018

CRIME/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT: “Paul Manafort has asked a federal judge in DC to dismiss the five criminal charges against him, arguing that special counsel Robert Mueller had no right to indict him for work done before he joined the Trump campaign as chairman in 2016… Manafort then asked the court on Wednesday [3-14-18] to throw out […]

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3/8/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT: “Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has entered a plea of not guilty to charges of bank fraud and tax crimes in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia. Judge TS Ellis set the trial to begin July 10. Prosecutors told said in court they planned to call 20-25 witnesses and said their arguments could […]

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2/28/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER: “Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, will face trial in mid-September on charges of conspiring against the U.S., conspiring to launder money, and failing to register as an agent of a foreign power, a federal judge said Wednesday [2-28-18]. The Sept. 17 date was set by U.S. District Judge Amy […]

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2/28/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort pleaded not guilty at an arraignment Wednesday [2-27-18] morning in federal court to a re-written set of charges that had been levied against him late last week. The charges in the US District Court for the District of Columbia include allegations of money laundering, conspiracy […]

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2/24/2018

2016 ELECTION/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/ROBERT/UKRAINE: “Former European leaders who tried to bring Ukraine closer to Europe before a 2014 uprising there reacted with shock on Saturday [2-24-18] after a federal indictment accused Paul Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, of secretly paying former European officials some two million euros in 2012 and 2013 to lobby on […]

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2/22/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA: “A federal judge has rejected former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s latest effort to win release from house arrest by offering up properties aimed at fulfilling the $10 million bail the judge has set. U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson said she would not accept Manafort’s Alexandria, Va. condominium as part of […]

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2/21/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA: “New charges have been filed in special counsel Robert Mueller’s criminal case against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and aide Rick Gates, but the charges were put under seal by the court, obscuring the nature and import of the development. The new charging document filed in federal court in Washington could […]

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