Lawyers for Paul Manafort submitted a court filing Wednesday pushing back on special counsel Robert Mueller’s claims that Manafort lied to investigators since coming to a cooperation agreement with prosecutors. The filing — which is heavily redacted in its public form — comes ahead of a hearing scheduled for Friday on the dispute.
Manafort on Wednesday argued that a “fair reading” of the most recent filing by Mueller — the declaration of the FBI agent and a set of supporting documents, which were mostly redacted — “does not support the conclusion that Mr. Manafort intentionally provided false information. ”
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Source: TPM
