The federal court of the district of Columbia in the United States is of the opinion that Paul Manafort, a former campaign manager of president Donald Trump, and deliberately walked against the FBI, special prosecutor Robert Mueller and a jury. Manafort state for conspiracy against the American state. He joined in september 2018, a deal with Mueller.
The old campaign manager would for sentence remissions to contribute to the so-called Ruslandonderzoek to Russian interference during the U.s. presidential election in 2016. By not telling the truth, he has, according to Mueller, this appointment violated.
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According to the prosecutors had Manafort five times lied, but the judge spoke to him freely on two of these five charges. Three of them were on the basis of sufficient evidence, however, upheld.
Deal
Manafort was closed in september last year, a deal with justice. He is known as debt to, inter alia, conspiracy against the United States and pledged to cooperate with the investigation of special prosecutor Robert Mueller to possible Russian interference in the presidential elections of 2016.
Earlier this month had Manafort behind closed doors for the court, because he would have lied in the deal that he and Mueller had closed. Manaforts lawyers have always denied.
Tax and bankfraude
Manafort served until August 2016, a few months as the campaign manager of Trump. Against him runs another process in which he was found guilty of tax and bankfraude. Also that case comes from the research of Mueller. The lobbyist would therein on February 8, his verdict hearing, but that ruling has recently been postponed.
