Manafort trial Day 10: Prosecution rests, Manafort defense starts Tuesday

Source: Politico | August 13, 2018 | Darren Samuelsohn, Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney

Mueller’s team called more than two dozen witnesses in the tax- and bank-fraud case against the former Trump campaign chairman.

Special counsel Robert Mueller’s prosecutors rested their case against Paul Manafort on Monday afternoon after calling more than two dozen witnesses in their tax- and bank-fraud case against the former Trump campaign chairman.

The final round of testimony from Treasury Department senior special agent Paula Liss lasted only five questions. It essentially boiled down to Liss stating that she had not found any evidence that Manafort’s international political consulting firms had filed reports with the U.S. government acknowledging they had foreign bank accounts.

Failing to file those bank account reports are one prong of Mueller’s case against Manafort, which is set to shift to the defense on Tuesday morning when the trial resumes in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia.

Mueller’s team brought the charges against Manafort as part of its wideranging investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

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A Chicago bank CEO who was seeking a top job in the Trump administration overrode the objections of the bank’s president in order to green light a $9.5 million loan for Paul Manafort in the midst of the 2016 presidential campaign, a bank executive testified Monday.

The testimony came shortly before prosecutors rested their case Monday afternoon against Manafort after nearly two weeks of witnesses, often presented at a breakneck speed that Ellis encouraged.

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