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Paul Manafort
Paul Manafort’s First Trial Is a Sideshow. The Next One Won’t Be. The real action is already happening across the Potomac, where another Manafort trial is bound to be much more revealing.
By Cristian Farias
Team Trump’s Explanations for Mueller Tirade Make Less and Less Sense After Trump called on Sessions to end the “rigged witch hunt,” reports claimed he’s actually eager to talk to Mueller, and thinks he’ll clear himself.
By Margaret Hartmann
ostrich leather
Aug. 1, 2018
Behold Paul Manafort’s $15,000 Ostrich Jacket A noble bird had to give their life for this?
By Opheli Garcia Lawler
the manafort challenge
Aug. 1, 2018
By Emilia Petrarca
Manafort’s Expensive Suits Were the Talk of the Courtroom Today Trump’s former campaign manager spent at least $1.26 million on clothes in a span of four years.
By Adam K. Raymond
Paul Manafort’s Trial: Everything We Learned on Day One The choice for jurors: Is Manafort a lavish spender who lied to avoid paying taxes, or a gifted political strategist duped by his devious deputy?
By Margaret Hartmann
Mueller Referred 3 Cases on Illicit Foreign Lobbying to New York Prosecutors They involve top U.S. lobbyists and operatives linked to Paul Manafort – both Republicans and Democrats – who failed to register as foreign agents.
By Margaret Hartmann
criminal jackets
July 31, 2018
Paul Manafort Apparently Spent $15,000 on a Jacket Made From an Ostrich The first day of his trial included even more details about the former Trump campaign manager’s ridiculous spending habits.
By Opheli Garcia Lawler
Paul Manafort’s Trial: Everything You Need to Know While the first trial stemming from the Mueller probe will focus on bank and tax fraud, not collusion, there could be major implications for Trump.
By Margaret Hartmann
Manafort’s Trial Delayed to July 31 So His Lawyers Can Better Prepare A federal judge will give Paul Manafort’s lawyers a six-day extension so they can review around 120,000 pages of documents ahead of his trial.
By Adam K. Raymond
Mueller Requests Immunity for 5 Witnesses Set to Testify Against Manafort A judge also denied Paul Manafort’s request to move his tax and bank-fraud trial, which is set to start next week, out of the D.C. area.
By Margaret Hartmann
Manafort Is a ‘VIP’ in Jail With His Own Phone, Laptop, and Shower Trump’s former campaign chairman has asked that his trial be delayed. Robert Mueller is using his own words to argue that it shouldn’t be.
By Adam K. Raymond
Manafort Kept in Solitary 23 Hours a Day to ‘Guarantee His Safety,’ Lawyer Says Trump’s former campaign manager is seeking pretrial release, despite the witness-tampering charges that landed him in jail.
By Adam K. Raymond
Mueller Hits Manafort With New Charges, This Time for Obstruction of Justice President Trump’s former campaign chairman is accused of witness tampering while on house arrest for other charges.
By Adam K. Raymond
If Mueller Is Ever Going to Flip Manafort, Now Seems Like the Time Federal prosecutors accused Manafort of witness tampering, which could land him in jail as he awaits trial, just as Trump cast doubt on a pardon.
By Margaret Hartmann
Paul Manafort Is Having Trouble Paying His Legal Bills, Now You Can Help Friends of the former Trump campaign manager are crowdfunding to defray costs associated with the Mueller probe.
By Adam K. Raymond
Manafort’s Former Son-in-Law Pleads Guilty, Is Working With Federal Prosecutors Jeffrey Yohai, who worked with Manafort on real-estate deals, pleaded guilty to federal charges and may be assisting Mueller.
By Margaret Hartmann
mueller investigation
May 5, 2018
Mueller Team Has Interviewed Tom Barrack, a Close Friend of Trump Barrack was a top fundraiser for Trump’s presidential campaign and chaired his inaugural committee.
By Chas Danner
the national interest
May 3, 2018
By Jonathan Chait
Mueller (Quietly) Keeps Turning Up the Heat Recent court filings by the special counsel’s office in the Russia saga paint a picture very different than the one GOP critics are trying to sell.
By Cristian Farias
Lawyer Who Lied to Bob Mueller May Have Blown Paul Manafort’s Russia Cover Alex van der Zwaan, a minor character targeted by Mueller’s investigation, could make history.
By Cristian Farias
Trump Lawyer Held Out Prospect of Pardons to Flynn and Manafort: Report As the special counsel sought their cooperation, John Dowd (reportedly) suggested that Trump would have their backs if they got convicted.
By Eric Levitz
the national interest
Mar. 15, 2018
Devin Nunes’s Russia Investigation Had No Suspects America’s least curious investigator believes nobody could have colluded with Russia.
By Jonathan Chait
Mark Your Calendar: Manafort Fraud Trial Set for July Trump’s former campaign manager is going to have an exciting summer.
By Adam K. Raymond
Former Trump Aide Rick Gates Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy, Lying to the FBI Paul Manafort’s longtime ally has promised to cooperate with Robert Mueller’s investigation.
By Adam K. Raymond
russia probe
Feb. 22, 2018
Robert Mueller Puts the Squeeze on Paul Manafort and Rick Gates Yet Again A new indictment accuses them of carrying out an elaborate scheme to defraud both private financial institutions and the United States.
By Cristian Farias
Report: Manafort Investigated for Promising WH Job in Exchange for Personal Loan Robert Mueller is looking into yet another aspect of Paul Manafort’s shady past.
By Adam K. Raymond
russia investigation
Feb. 18, 2018
By Chas Danner
the national interest
Feb. 15, 2018
Rick Gates, Former Manafort Partner, Makes Deal With Mueller That’s three friendly witnesses for an investigation that is not looking friendly for Trump.
By Jonathan Chait
russia probe
Jan. 3, 2018
Paul Manafort’s Lawsuit Against Robert Mueller Is Frivolous Political Theater Manafort argues that the special counsel has no business sticking his nose in the pre-Trump campaign work he did in Ukraine. He’s wrong.
By Cristian Farias
Paul Manafort Can Go Home for the Holidays, If He Brings His Ankle Monitor Trump’s former campaign chairman won’t let house arrest keep him from celebrating Christmas in the Hamptons.
By Olivia Nuzzi
Paul Manafort Will Not Be Allowed to Take Off His Ankle Monitor A federal judge denied the request. Trump’s former campaign manager remains in a “High Intensity Supervision Program.”
By Olivia Nuzzi
Manafort Offers Trump Tower Condo As Collateral His lawyer says Manafort is too cash poor to afford bail.
By Olivia Nuzzi
Manafort’s 3 U.S. Passports and Travel Alias Make Him a ‘Serious’ Flight Risk Prosecutors want “substantial” bail conditions to prevent Trump’s former campaign manager from skipping town.
By Adam K. Raymond
the national interest
Oct. 31, 2017
Trump Probably Shouldn’t Be Glad Campaign Manager Arrested for Federal Crimes Paul Manafort has done a lot of very bad things, and his indictment covers just a few of them.
By Jonathan Chait
russia probe
Oct. 30, 2017
Russia Indictments Leave Trump Allies Rattled — Contrary to the White House Spin Reactions ranged from selfish relief, to frustration with Mueller, to concern about what this means for the GOP agenda — and Trump’s presidency.
By Olivia Nuzzi
Democrats Should Declare Victory on Trump and Russia The undisputed facts of this scandal are damning enough.
By Eric Levitz
Mueller Quietly Dropped a Bombshell on Monday — and It Wasn’t About Manafort The special counsel’s charging of a very minor player reveals a lot about the big picture.
By Cristian Farias
manafort be shopping
Oct. 30, 2017
Here’s How Paul Manafort Spent Some of the $18 Million He Allegedly Laundered A run-down of how the former Trump campaign chairman allegedly spent his laundered funds.
By Lisa Ryan
Who Is Rick Gates, the Other Person Indicted on Monday? The political survivor with close ties to Paul Manafort.
By Benjamin Hart
Former Trump Campaign Manager Indicted for ‘Conspiracy Against the U.S.’ Paul Manafort and fellow Trump campaign aide Rick Gates are the first to face indictment in Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.
By Eric Levitz
russia investigation
Oct. 29, 2017
What We Do and Don’t Know About Mueller’s Impending Indictment The Russia investigation is poised to enter a whole new phase.
By Chas Danner
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