Manafort's Los Angeles bankruptcy fight may offer a new avenue for Mueller's' Russia probe
Source: CNBC
Federal prosecutors who have already indicted President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort on charges of money laundering, bank fraud and covertly lobbying for pro-Russian interests may have additional leverage arising from a loan he received while engaged in the bankruptcies of properties in California, several former law enforcement officials say.
Reuters has found new information about Manafort's handling of the loan and its potential link to the bankruptcies as Special Counsel Robert Mueller seeks to pressure Manafort to cooperate with his investigation into Trump's campaign team and possible collusion with Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 election.
At issue is whether the failure to disclose a loan from a lender that was also the main creditor in the California bankruptcy cases represented an illegal concealment of material information.
Reuters has also learned that over the past several months Mueller has begun focusing on Jeffrey Yohai, Manafort's former son-in-law and his partner in four California property deals that failed and were placed in bankruptcy, as a potentially valuable witness in his probe.
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/26/manaforts-los-angeles-bankruptcy-fight-may-offer-a-new-avenue-for-muellers-russia-probe.html
The article also says that in a separate probe an LA Federal Prosecutor has been pressuring the ex son-in-law to sign a cooperation agreement (but the reporter doesn't know what the proposed terms for that were).
Also, at the time Manafort applied for the questionable loan, his son-in-law was in a "facility" for treatment of anxiety. When he learned about the loan, he asked his attorney to draft something objecting to the loan, but later changed his mind.
I'm sure his former son-in-law is all done with his anxiety now and will have nothing but wonderful things to say about Paul Manafort.
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