November 29, 2018
As a government cooperator, former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort went rogue when he continued to talk to the president's legal team via their joint-defense deal and may have put himself in line for additional sentencing pain even if he can salvage a deal with prosecutors, experts said.
November 26, 2018
Special Counsel Robert Mueller told a D.C. federal court Monday that Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, breached a plea agreement reached with prosecutors earlier this year by lying to his office and the FBI "on a variety of subject matters."
September 14, 2018
New details about Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP's work in Ukraine included in Paul Manafort's plea-deal indictment Friday appeared to contradict the firm's long-standing assertions it was never involved in Manafort's foreign lobbying work and that its report on the trial of an ex-Ukrainian prime minister was done objectively.
August 28, 2018
A D.C. federal judge on Tuesday gave Paul Manafort's defense attorneys a partial respite from the start of his second criminal trial by keeping a Sept. 17 kickoff for jury selection but delaying opening arguments until the following week.
August 22, 2018
Paul Manafort emerged from his first criminal trial Tuesday a convicted felon, a loss that experts say will weigh heavily on the mind of President Donald Trump's former campaign manager as he prepares for another trial scheduled to start next month.
July 23, 2018
A Virginia federal judge on Monday delayed former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort's trial on charges of bank and tax fraud by six days, while also unsealing the names of five witnesses who will be compelled to testify under immunity protections.
July 18, 2018
A D.C. federal judge Wednesday denied Paul Manafort's request to suppress evidence collected from his home in Alexandria, Virginia, finding that the search warrant was not overly broad and that the feds' search did not violate the former Trump campaign chairman's Fourth Amendment rights.
July 17, 2018
Paul Manafort can't move his rapidly approaching tax and bank fraud trial from inside the Washington, D.C., Beltway to Roanoke, Virginia, a federal judge ruled Tuesday in a decision that found there was no real media circus or evidence of jury pool bias warranting a venue change.
July 12, 2018
Special Counsel Robert Mueller told a D.C. federal judge Wednesday he intends to introduce evidence that former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort was cited by the U.S. Department of Justice for failing to disclose foreign lobbying activity in the 1980s.
July 11, 2018
President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort is being treated like a "VIP" in jail as he awaits trials over alleged financial crimes and foreign lobbying charges, and found a way around the rule barring prisoners from sending emails while incarcerated, prosecutors told a Virginia federal judge Wednesday.