Special Counsel Robert Mueller said in a new filing Monday that Paul Manafort, President Trump’s one-time campaign chairman, violated his plea agreement by lying to federal prosecutors.
“After signing the plea agreement, Manafort committed federal crimes by lying to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Special Counsel’s Office on a variety of subject matters, which constitute breaches of the agreement,” Mueller’s team said in a joint status report with Paul Manafort’s defense attorneys filed late Monday.
Mueller’s prosecutors asked the judge to schedule a date for sentencing.
Manafort was convicted on eight counts of bank and tax fraud over the summer in a separate case in Northern Virginia and agreed to cooperate with Mueller in September in order to avert a second federal trial in Washington, D.C.
As part of the agreement, Manafort pleaded guilty to two felony charges related to his foreign lobbying efforts and agreed to fully cooperate with Mueller’s sprawling investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. He had been working with the special counsel for roughly 2 1/2 months.
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Really stupid of Manafort to lie after he agreed to a plea deal. That deal is going away and he might face a lot more jail time.
Maybe someone else made him a better deal.
Yes. A Trump pardon.
But I wouldn’t trust that Trump would deliver on that pardon. He demands loyalty from his “inferiors,” but he is under no obligation to return that loyalty.
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