«Breaking News» Paul Manafort claimed to have used intermediaries to 'get people appointed in Trump Administration'

Paul Manafort, the convicted former chairman of Donald Trump's presidential campaign, told a business associate in January of 2017 he was using middlemen to get people appointed to the Trump administration, according to a court filing on Tuesday.

US Special Counsel Robert Mueller had been given until Monday by a federal court in Washington, DC, to provide evidence of his accusations that Manafort had lied to prosecutors on five subjects.

If such allegations are proven to be true, that would put Manafort in breach of a plea agreement under which he was meant to be cooperating with Mueller's probe into Russian interference in the 2016 president election, and whether Trump's campaign colluded with the foreign government.

The heavily redacted 188-page filing included new details about Manafort's communications with Trump administration officials, which continued even after he left the campaign in August of 2016 due to a scandal over cash payments related to his work for pro-Russia politicians in Ukraine.

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Court documents filed in Washington, DC allege that Paul Manafort, convicted former chairman of Donald Trump's presidential campaign, said that he was using intermediaries to 'get people appointed in the [Trump] Administration' in January 2017. Manafort is pictured (left) arriving for arraignment on a charge of witness tampering at US District Court in Washington, DC on June 15. Trump is pictured (right) on the South Lawn of the White House on Monday

In January of 2017 Manafort told his former business partner Richard Gates that he was using intermediaries to 'get people appointed in the Administration,' according to the sworn statement of an FBI agent working for Mueller included in the filing.

Gates, who also served on Trump's presidential transition team, pleaded guilty last year to lying to the FBI and conspiracy against the United States.

Gates also agreed to cooperate with Mueller's probe.

In January of 2017 Manafort told his former business partner Richard Gates that he was using intermediaries to 'get people appointed in the Administration,' according to the sworn statement of an FBI agent working for Mueller included in the filing, which is shown in relevant part here

Also on Tuesday, Mueller asked a federal judge for more time before sentencing Gates because of his ongoing cooperation, suggesting the probe into Russian interference may still have a ways to go.

The latest request for more time before sentencing came in a joint filing by Mueller's office and Gates' lawyers to US District Judge Amy Berman Jackson in Washington, who is overseeing the case.

In a request similar to one made to the judge in November, they cited Gates' cooperation with 'several ongoing investigations' in asking for another 60 days before they update the judge again about the case and whether it was time to move to sentencing.

Richard Gates (second left) was deputy to Paul Manafort (right) when he ran the Trump campaign at the time of the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio

Gates, who also served on Trump's presidential transition team, pleaded guilty last year to lying to the FBI and conspiracy against the United States. Like Manafort, Gates has also agreed to cooperate with Robert Mueller's probe into Russian election interference, and collusion between Trump's presidential campaign and the foreign government. Gates is pictured leaving the Prettyman Federal Courthouse after a hearing on February 23 in Washington, DC

Also on Tuesday, Mueller asked a federal judge for more time before sentencing Gates because of his ongoing cooperation, suggesting the probe into Russian interference may still have a ways to go. Robert Mueller is pictured in Washington, DC, on June 21, 2017

The filing in the Manafort case, which was also submitted to Jackson's court, touched on Manafort's other alleged lies, including about his interactions with Konstantin Kilimnik, a former business partner who Mueller has accused of having Russian intelligence ties. 

But due to heavy redactions it was unclear if the filing contained any major new revelations.

Last week, Manafort's lawyers in court papers inadvertently disclosed that Manafort had shared polling data related to the Trump 2016 presidential campaign with Kilimnik.

The mistaken disclosure - caused by a formatting error that allowed redacted material to be viewed - triggered new concerns among legal experts and Democratic lawmakers about the extent of Manafort's Russia ties during his time on Trump's campaign, which included three months as chairman.

Mueller is investigating whether Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election and whether Trump campaign members coordinated with Moscow officials.

Trump, who denies any campaign collusion with Russia, says he did not know Manafort shared the data. Russia denies interfering in US elections.

In addition to the polling data revelation, the filing also showed that Mueller believed Manafort lied to prosecutors about his discussions with Kilimnik on a 'Ukrainian peace plan' and a previously undisclosed meeting between Manafort and Kilimnik in Madrid. 

Manafort's lawyers said any incorrect statements by him were unintentional.

Judge Jackson has said she would review the evidence submitted by Mueller and any reply by Manafort's team before deciding whether a hearing on the matter is necessary.

Manafort was convicted on August 21 on eight counts of financial crimes. The jury was deadlocked on 10 additional charges.

A second trial for Manafort on charges of failing to register as a foreign agent has been set for September.

On the same day as Manafort's conviction came down, Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to multiple counts of campaign finance violations in federal court, related to payments made to multiple women who said they had sexual relationships with Trump while he was with Melania Trump. 

ROBERT MUELLER'S PROBE SO FAR: EIGHT CONVICTIONS - INCLUDING THREE TOP TRUMP AIDES, A JAILED ATTORNEY AND 25 RUSSIANS ACCUSED

GUILTY: MICHAEL FLYNN 

Pleaded guilty to making false statements in December 2017. Awaiting sentence

Flynn was President Trump's former National Security Advisor and Robert Mueller's most senior scalp to date. He previously served when he was a three star general as President Obama's director of the Defense Intelligence Agency but was fired. 

He admitted to lying to special counsel investigators about his conversations with a Russian ambassador in December 2016. He has agreed to cooperate with the special counsel investigation.

GUILTY: MICHAEL COHEN

Pleaded guilty to eight counts including fraud and two campaign finance violations in August 2018. Pleaded guilty to further count of lying to Congress in November 2018. Sentenced to three years in prison and $2 million in fines and forfeitures in December 2018

Cohen was Trump's longtime personal attorney, starting working for him and the Trump Organization in 2007. He is the longest-serving member of Trump's inner circle to be implicated by Mueller. Cohen professed unswerving devotion to Trump - and organized payments to silence two women who alleged they had sex with the-then candidate: porn star Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal. He admitted that payments to both women were felony campaign finance violations - and admitted that he acted at the 'direction' of 'Candidate-1': Donald Trump. 

He also admitted tax fraud by lying about his income from loans he made, money from  taxi medallions he owned, and other sources of income, at a cost to the Treasury of $1.3 million.

And he admitted lying to Congress in a rare use of the offense. The judge in his case let him report for prison on March 6 and  recommended he serve it in a medium-security facility close to New York City.

GUILTY: PAUL MANAFORT

Found guilty of eight charges of bank and tax fraud in August 2018. Pleaded guilty to two further charges. Awaiting sentence

Manafort worked for Trump's campaign from March 2016 and chaired it from June to August 2016, overseeing Trump being adopted as Republican candidate at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. He is the most senior campaign official to be implicated by Mueller. Manafort was one of Washington D.C.'s longest-term and most influential lobbyists but in 2015, his money dried up and the next year he turned to Trump for help, offering to be his campaign chairman for free - in the hope of making more money afterwards. But Mueller unwound his previous finances and discovered years of tax and bank fraud as he coined in cash from pro-Russia political parties and oligarchs in Ukraine.

Manafort pleaded not guilty to 18 charges of tax and bank fraud but was convicted of eight counts. The jury was deadlocked on the other 10 charges. A second trial on charges of failing to register as a foreign agent is due in September.  

GUILTY: RICK GATES 

Pleaded guilty to conspiracy against the United States and making false statements in February 2018. Awaiting sentence

Gates was Manafort's former deputy at political consulting firm DMP International. He admitted to conspiring to defraud the U.S. government on financial activity, and to lying to investigators about a meeting Manafort had with a member of congress in 2013. As a result of his guilty plea and promise of cooperation, prosecutors vacated charges against Gates on bank fraud, bank fraud conspiracy, failure to disclose foreign bank accounts, filing false tax returns, helping prepare false tax filings, and falsely amending tax returns.

GUILTY AND JAILED: GEORGE PAPADOPOLOUS

Pleaded guilty to making false statements in October 2017. Sentenced to 14 days in September 2018, and reported to prison in November. Served 12 days and released on December 7, 2018

 Papadopoulos was a member of Donald Trump's campaign foreign policy advisory committee. He admitted to lying to special counsel investigators about his contacts with London professor Josef Mifsud and Ivan Timofeev, the director of a Russian government-funded think tank. 

He has agreed to cooperate with the special counsel investigation.

GUILTY AND JAILED: RICHARD PINEDO

Pleaded guilty to identity fraud in February 2018. Sentenced to a year in prison

Pinedo is a 28-year-old computer specialist from Santa Paula, California. He admitted to selling bank account numbers to Russian nationals over the internet that he had obtained using stolen identities. 

He has agreed to cooperate with the special counsel investigation.

GUILTY AND JAILED: ALEX VAN DER ZWAAN

Pleaded guilty to making false statements in February 2018. He served a 30-day prison sentence earlier this year and was deported to the Netherlands on his release

Van der Zwaan is a Dutch attorney for Skadden Arps who worked on a Ukrainian political analysis report for Paul Manafort in 2012. 

He admitted to lying to special counsel investigators about when he last spoke with Rick Gates and Konstantin Kilimnik.

GUILTY:  W. SAMUEL PATTEN

Pleaded guilty in August 2018 to failing to register as a lobbyist while doing work for a Ukrainian political party. Awaiting sentence

Patten, a long-time D.C. lobbyist was a business partner of Paul Manafort. He pleaded guilty to admitting to arranging an illegal $50,000 donation to Trump's inauguration.

He arranged for an American 'straw donor' to pay $50,000 to the inaugural committee, knowing that it was actually for a Ukrainian businessman.

Neither the American or the Ukrainian have been named.   

CHARGED: KONSTANTIN KILIMNIK

Indicted for obstruction of justice and conspiracy to obstruct justice. At large, probably in Russia

Kilimnik is a former employee of Manafort's political consulting firm and helped him with lobbying work in Ukraine. He is accused of witness tampering, after he allegedly contacted individuals who had worked with Manafort to remind them that Manafort only performed lobbying work for them outside of the U.S.

He has been linked to  Russian intelligence and is currently thought to be in Russia - effectively beyond the reach of extradition by Mueller's team.

INDICTED: THE RUSSIANS 

Twenty-five Russian nationals and three Russian entities have been indicted for conspiracy to defraud the United States. They remain at large in Russia

Two of these Russian nationals were also indicted for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and 11 were indicted for conspiracy to launder money. Fifteen of them were also indicted for identity fraud. 

Vladimir Putin has ridiculed the charges. Russia effectively bars extradition of its nationals. The only prospect Mueller has of bringing any in front of a U.S. jury is if Interpol has their names on an international stop list - which is not made public - and they set foot in a territory which extradites to the U.S. 

INDICTED: MICHAEL FLYNN'S BUSINESS PARTNERS

Bijan Kian (left), number two in now disgraced former national security adviser Mike Flynn's lobbying company, and the two's business partner Ekim Alptekin (right) were indicted for conspiracy to lobby illegally. Kian is awaiting trial, Alptekin is still to appear in court

Kian, an Iranian-American was arrested and appeared in court charged with a conspiracy to illegally lobby the U.S government without registering as a foreign agent. Their co-conspirator was Flynn, who is called 'Person A' in the indictment and is not charged, offering some insight into what charges he escaped with his plea deal.

Kian, vice-president of Flynn's former lobbying firm, is alleged to have plotted with Alptekin to try to change U.S. policy on an exiled Turkish cleric, Fethullah Gulen, who lives in Pennsylvania and who is accused by Turkey's strongman president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, of trying to depose him.

Erdogan's government wanted him extradited from the U.S. and paid Flynn's firm through Alptekin for lobbying, including an op-ed in The Hill calling for Gulen to be ejected. Flynn and Kian both lied that the op-ed was not paid for by the Turkish government. 

The indictment is a sign of how Mueller is taking an interest in more than just Russian involvement in the 2016 election.

 

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