By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The drama of the Paul Manafort’s case continues to unfold. The latest: A personal assistant to 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, Mark Hosenball and Nathan Layne of Reuters reports. The…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com How did special counsel Robert Mueller’s people get Paul Manafort’s encrypted messages that suggested he was tampering with witnesses? In a court filing, Mueller writes that FBI investigators obtained messages that Manafort—who was indicted for money laundering, tax fraud, and other charges in October—sent to witnesses in his case in an attempt…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manfort is getting himself in more trouble. Federal prosecutors on the Robert S. Mueller III team are accusing him of witness tampering and want the judge to consider revoking or revising his release, the Washington Post reports. Prosecutors accuse Manafort and a longtime associate they linked…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com President Donald Trump, continuing on his Twitter tear, on Sunday 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, CNN reports. “As only one of two people left…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort is battling it out in federal court. On Wednesday, he plans to ask a federal judge to suppress evidence seized by FBI agents working for Special Counsel Robert Mueller, saying they violated the U.S. Constitution’s ban on unreasonable searches and seizures, Reuters reports….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A D.C. federal judge has given special counsel Robert Mueller the green light to continue the case against Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, Business Insider reports. U.S. District Judge Amy Jackson declined on Tuesday to toss the charges against Manafort, who faces two indictments from the special counsel….
When FBI agents raided the home of Paul Manafort, the former head of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, last summer, a judge signed off on seizing records related to a previously undisclosed meeting between the campaign and Russian lobbyists at the Trump Tower in June 2016.
Longtime Donald Trump confidant Roger Stone said the president’s campaign chairman Paul Manafort will not plead guilty or “roll over” on Trump.
