Paul Manafort's plea deal is falling apart, as FBI Special Counsel Robert Mueller accuses him of lying in his statement.
It's bad news for both men-but good news for President Trump.
As a former manager of Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, Manafort is certainly privy to lots of private information about how it operated, including whether it "Colluded" with Russians.
That's not what Manafort was under fire for in federal criminal court; those charges stemmed from Manafort's years as a sort of international calamity mercenary, providing political consulting services to shady authoritarian characters worldwide and, particularly, for former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych and other pro-Russia politicians in Ukraine.
In August, a jury found Manafort guilty of five counts of tax fraud, two counts of bank fraud, and one count of failing to report a foreign bank account.
The following month, Manafort accepted a plea deal, copping to two counts of conspiracy, and agreeing to cooperate in Mueller's Russia probe.
Now, prosecutors say in the court filing that "After signing the plea agreement, Manafort committed federal crimes by lying to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Special Counsel's Office on a variety of subject matters, which constitute breaches of the agreement."
http://reason.com/blog/2018/11/27/paul-manafort-lied-to-fbi
It's bad news for both men-but good news for President Trump.
As a former manager of Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, Manafort is certainly privy to lots of private information about how it operated, including whether it "Colluded" with Russians.
That's not what Manafort was under fire for in federal criminal court; those charges stemmed from Manafort's years as a sort of international calamity mercenary, providing political consulting services to shady authoritarian characters worldwide and, particularly, for former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych and other pro-Russia politicians in Ukraine.
In August, a jury found Manafort guilty of five counts of tax fraud, two counts of bank fraud, and one count of failing to report a foreign bank account.
The following month, Manafort accepted a plea deal, copping to two counts of conspiracy, and agreeing to cooperate in Mueller's Russia probe.
Now, prosecutors say in the court filing that "After signing the plea agreement, Manafort committed federal crimes by lying to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Special Counsel's Office on a variety of subject matters, which constitute breaches of the agreement."
http://reason.com/blog/2018/11/27/paul-manafort-lied-to-fbi
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