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Manafort Reaches Plea Deal, Agrees to Help Mueller’s Russia Investigation


Yuri Gripas/REUTERS/NewscomPaul Manafort, facing a second criminal trial about his secret financial ties to a former Russia-friendly Ukrainian president, has agreed to plead guilty to two charges and has agreed to cooperate with FBI Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
At a plea hearing in a D.C. federal court today, Manafort pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy against the United States and a charge of conspiracy to obstruct justice. Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, was convicted in August of eight charges of tax evasion and bank fraud for concealing the money he …read more

Source: Reason.com

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