Paul Manafort, former campaign chairman for Mr. Yuge and now a convicted felon, must have heard
US Person's (aka the "
cur") advice
{09.18.2018} because he cut a deal with the Special Prosecutor's office to cooperate with the Russian Connection investigation. He pleaded guilty to two conspiracy charges carrying a maximum of ten years in prison in exchange for his full cooperation on matters the government wants to ask him about. Most of those interrogations will center on his brief tenure as Trump's campaign manager in 2016, when he was present at the critical meeting between the Trump campaign and Russian operatives in Manhattan's Trump Tower. He is expected to provide heretofore unavailable insight into the campaign's inner workings including its cooperation with foreign agents seeking to influence the outcome of the election.
The deal is a triumph for Mr. Mueller and his investigators, and a serious blow to the legal defense of Hair Further. Manafort is the fourth former Trump official to give their cooperation to federal investigators. He is so critical to that defense his former boss dangled the possibility of a presidential pardon for his crimes. Manafort held out for a year until he was convicted by a Virginia jury of eight federal crimes including
money laundering that arose from his consulting contract with the Ukrainian government. He faced an indictment on seven more counts. Manafort was also forced to
surrender his personal fortune as part of the plea agreement, but he will avoid life imprisonment.
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credit: Omhan, Sacramento Bee
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