”Manafort has stated several clear lies that are not just about blackouts,” the Rysslandsutredarnas to large parts of the masked document published on Friday. The accused has stated that he during the preliminary investigation had not had any contact with the White house, but prosecutors can point to the repeated communication with the ”high officials”.

was sentenced to eight financial crime in August, a federal court in Virginia, signed an agreement to truthfully and thoroughly cooperate with Mueller, in exchange for a more lenient sentence. In that agreement, he admitted also two cases of conspiring against the united states.

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the Plot is composed at least in Manaforts regular contacts with Constantine Kilimnik, his Russian employees over the years as a consultant for the Russian interests in Ukraine. The men should also have tried to induce the two witnesses, as late as in the year, to lie about the extent of assignments in the Ukraine.

have lied about the reason for the transfers of large sums of money which he said was only the repayment of the debt, when it actually moved on the sophisticated transactions to Trump-lobbyists Rebuilding America Now, which was formed in the summer of 2016, and was one of the then more presidentkampanjens most significant födkrok. Friday’s data on Manafort and the president’s ex-lawyer Michael Cohen place brottstiden to already november 2015 and as late as in may 2018.

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the White house’s reactions to the incriminating data on Manafort and Cohen appear to be in the context that the verklighetsfrånvända. ”Exonerating completely the president. Thank you!”, tweeted Trump, and the press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders wrote about domstolsuppgifterna that ”once again trying to the media creating a story when there isn’t any”.

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