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Manafort continued Ukraine work in 2018, prosecutors say
Source: Washington Post
Manafort continued Ukraine work in 2018, prosecutors say
By Spencer S. Hsu, Rosalind S. Helderman and Matt Zapotosky February 7 at 8:40 PM
Prosecutors allege that Paul Manafort was working on Ukrainian political matters in 2018, after his indictment in the special counsel’s investigation, and also revealed that a former business associate of his who was assessed by the FBI to have ties to Russian intelligence attended President Trump’s inaugural, according to new court filings.
The details came in a partially redacted transcript released Thursday of a sealed hearing between prosecutors and the defense team for Trump’s former campaign chairman in the ongoing legal battle over whether Manafort lied and breached his deal to cooperate in Robert S. Mueller III’s probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election.
The transcript contained some new elements.
At the hearing, attorneys discussed whether Manafort may have been motivated to lie in one unspecified instance “to at least augment his chances for a pardon,” the transcript states, suggesting prosecutors’ suspicion that Manafort might be trying to deceive them even now, after his guilty plea in September in Washington, in the hope of winning a reprieve from the president.
In another instance during the hearing, prosecutor Andrew Weissmann alleged Manafort may have lied to hide a scheme to funnel cash to himself while doing unpaid work for the Trump campaign.
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By Spencer S. Hsu, Rosalind S. Helderman and Matt Zapotosky February 7 at 8:40 PM
Prosecutors allege that Paul Manafort was working on Ukrainian political matters in 2018, after his indictment in the special counsel’s investigation, and also revealed that a former business associate of his who was assessed by the FBI to have ties to Russian intelligence attended President Trump’s inaugural, according to new court filings.
The details came in a partially redacted transcript released Thursday of a sealed hearing between prosecutors and the defense team for Trump’s former campaign chairman in the ongoing legal battle over whether Manafort lied and breached his deal to cooperate in Robert S. Mueller III’s probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election.
The transcript contained some new elements.
At the hearing, attorneys discussed whether Manafort may have been motivated to lie in one unspecified instance “to at least augment his chances for a pardon,” the transcript states, suggesting prosecutors’ suspicion that Manafort might be trying to deceive them even now, after his guilty plea in September in Washington, in the hope of winning a reprieve from the president.
In another instance during the hearing, prosecutor Andrew Weissmann alleged Manafort may have lied to hide a scheme to funnel cash to himself while doing unpaid work for the Trump campaign.
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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/prosecutors-manafort-continued-ukraine-work-in-2018-and-key-russian-aide-came-to-trump-inauguration/2019/02/07/a0210b96-2a50-11e9-b2fc-721718903bfc_story.html
