USA v. Manafort et al
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July 31, 2018
Manafort Paints Gates As Author Of Ukraine Fraud At Trial
The only thing Paul Manafort is guilty of is trusting too much, the former Trump campaign chair's attorneys said in Virginia federal court on day one of his trial on charges of bank and tax fraud, claiming his business partner, Rick Gates, is responsible for the alleged fraud related to the pair's political consulting work.
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July 23, 2018
Manafort's Va. Fraud Trial Delayed By A Week
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.
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July 18, 2018
Manafort Can't Kill Evidence Collected In Home Raid
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.
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July 17, 2018
Manafort Can't Move Fraud Trial To Roanoke, Judge Rules
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.
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July 12, 2018
Mueller Says Manafort Ran Afoul Of FARA In The '80s
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.
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July 11, 2018
Manafort Is 'VIP,' Sending Emails From Jail, Feds Say
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.
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July 09, 2018
Mueller Aims To Block 2 Key Arguments From Manafort Trial
Special Counsel Robert Mueller asked a D.C. federal judge Monday to prevent Paul Manafort from arguing at trial that the case against him is politically motivated or that prosecutors had previously decided not to charge him, saying such arguments are irrelevant to the jury.
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July 06, 2018
Manafort Says Change Venue, Fears Beltway Clinton Bias
Attorneys for Paul Manafort told a Virginia federal judge Friday that he should shift the former President Donald Trump campaign chair's rapidly approaching tax and bank fraud trial from inside the Washington, D.C., beltway to Roanoke, Virginia, where voters leaned more toward Trump in 2016.
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July 05, 2018
Manafort Asks DC Circ. To Let Him Out Of Jail Before Trial
Paul Manafort on Thursday asked the D.C. Circuit to be released on bail ahead of his upcoming trials over alleged financial crimes and foreign lobbying charges, saying the lower court failed to consider the weight of the evidence against him when it ordered Manafort locked up.
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July 03, 2018
Manafort Seeks Juror Questions On Politics, Media Habits
Former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort is very interested in the political leanings and media diet of prospective jurors in his looming trial for financial crimes, a request for jury questions filed in Virginia federal court has shown.