Mueller brings new charges against Paul Manafort

Source: The Hill | June 8, 2018 | Olivia Beavers and Avery Anapol

Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has been hit with new charges filed by special counsel Robert Mueller’s office.

Mueller filed a superseding indictment Friday in a D.C. court that brought two new accounts against Manafort and Konstantin Kilimnik, a longtime Manafort aide.

The two new counts, which layer onto five previously issued charges, accuse Manafort and Kiliminik, who ran the Kiev office of Manafort’s political consulting company Davis Manafort Partners, of obstructing justice and conspiracy to obstruct justice. 

Manafort and Kiliminik “knowingly and intentionally attempted to persuade” two unidentified persons with “intent to influence, delay, and prevent the testimony of any person in an official proceeding,” according to the new court filing.

Kilimnik had previously been mentioned, but not named, in court documents as a “person A” with ties to Russian intelligence. 

In March, documents filed by Mueller’s team had alleged that Manafort and his longtime business associate Richard Gates, were aware that an unidentified associate “was a former Russian Intelligence Officer.”

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