Jail time: Paul Manafort has been behind bars awaiting sentence since August. He is guilty of tax fraud, bank fraud, conspiracy and witness tampering
Special counsel Robert Mueller's office spelled out in detail the 'lies' former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort committed – including concealing contacts with the Trump administration.
A government filing argues Manafort is in breach of his cooperation agreement with prosecutors, which followed his sentencing on corruption charges. The deal required him to provide truthful information to the government.
The document lays out a redacted 'factual basis' for the breach, which underscores that he 'lied about his contacts' with the administration, notwithstanding his pledge to tell all in a deal that could reduce his prison time.
The contacts extended all the way to 2018, even as Manafort fended off an indictment.
On May 26, 2018, texts reveal he authorized a person to contact the administration on his behalf.
That was long after Manafort turned himself into the FBI, which happened in October 2017.
According to another Manafort colleague, he was in contact with a senior administration official through February 2018, prosecutors write.
But according to the plea deal he signed, Manafort had 'no direct or indirect contact with anyone in the Administration while they were in the Administration.'
'The evidence demonstrates that Manafort lied about his contacts,' according to the memo from Mueller's office.
THANK YOU! President Trump cheered the news after prosecutors accused his former campaign chair of 'lies' and recommended his former longtime lawyer Michael Cohen spend five years in jail
Manafort told 'multiple discernible lies' when meeting with special counsel investigators, the government said.
Manafort also lied about his contacts with Konstantin Kilimnik, who is alleged to have ties to Russian military intelligence, during the course of the probe into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
Many of these alleged 'lies' are blacked out. For example, the government says Manafort lied about the 'fact and frequency of ...' which is succeeded by five lines of redacted text
Mueller time: Special counsel Robert Mueller's memo on Paul Manafort is one of the biggest interventions he has made yet - and revealed hours after an angry tweet storm by Trump
At his side: Paul Manafort was Donald Trump's campaign manager at a critical stage in his journey to the White House - the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in July 2016
He also 'lied repeatedly' about a '[blank] meeting with Kilimnik,' although the first part of the subject heading is blacked out.
He 'provided different explanations for' and 'first denied that he had ...' claiming that he (Manafort),' the government wrote – without allowing the public to see what he lied about during its ongoing investigation.
The document also referenced material that came up in Manafort's trial in Virginia, that he engaged in a conspiracy to obstruct justice by trying to get his story straight with Kilimnik, who was the key figure in a Manafort's business office in Ukraine.
According to Mueller's investigators, Manafort wouldn't even acknowledge things he had pleaded guilty to.
In September of this year, he pleated guilty to a count of conspiring with Kilimnik to obstruct justice by trying to influence the testimony of two witnesses. But Manafort 'denied that Kilimnik was part of a criminal conspiracy to obstruct justice,' prosecutors wrote.
Kilimnik also has been indicted.
Manfort also 'lied about a $125,000 payment made toward a debt incurred by Manafort to a firm working for Manafort in 2017.' He made 'several inconsistent statements' to the government when asked about it.
The heavily redacted document referenced Manafort's contacts with a person with alleged ties to Russian military intelligence
It spells out his contacts with the Trump administration through 2018
The government argues Manafrot is in breach of his cooperation agreement
The government is already forcing Manafort to relinquish millions that were run through a complex money laundering scheme.
He also appears to have held out about another unidentified investigation.
Manafort 'provided information about [blank] during his plea negotiations. But then after the plea, he told the feds a 'different and exculpatory version of the events,' according to the filing.
Mueller's investigators issued an extraordinary court filing last week where they accused Manafort of breaching his cooperation agreement and committing 'lies' during his interviews, only to lay them out on Friday.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement: 'The government’s filing in Mr. Manafort’s case says absolutely nothing about the President. It says even less about collusion and is devoted almost entirely to lobbying-related issues. Once again the media is trying to create a story where there isn’t one.'
The president was brief in a tweet after the twin filings in the cases of Manafort and former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen.
'Totally clears the President. Thank you!' Trump wrote.
At his side: Paul Manafort's wife Kathleen was present throughout his trial despite an earlier revelation that he had cheated on her then gone into rehab
Lives ruined: Paul Manafort's daughter Jessica's marriage to property developer Jeffrey Yohai is over, he is a convicted felon and she has changed her family name to Bond in the wake of her father's disgrace. The fate of her mother's Virginia condo, which was raided by Mueller's investigators, is in the balance
Pre-emptive twitter storm: Trump went on the offensive on Twitter Friday morning ahead of the sentencing memo. There is no evidence that Mueller plans to write a report
Toxic client: Manafort received millions from Viktor Yanokovych but the Ukrainian president was run out of office and the lobbyist's world spiraled into crime
The latest maneuvering comes days after the special counsel's office submitted a sentencing memo in the case of former Trump national security advisor Michael Flynn.
Prosecutors vouched for his extensive cooperation, and recommended of a sentence of as little as no jail time, due to the utility information and the example he set by cooperating early. Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his Russia contacts during the presidential transition.
Manafort was convicted in Virginia of financial and tax fraud. During his Virginia trial, prosecutors made a show of his lavish spending with some of his moneys he funneled into off-shore corporations from Ukraine and then brought into the U.S. without paying required taxes.
Among the items was a $15,000 ostrich vest.
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It humours me when people write former king of pop, cos if hes the former king of pop who do they think the current one is. Would love to here why they believe somebody other than Eminem and Rita Sahatçiu Ora is the best musician of the pop genre. In fact if they have half the achievements i would be suprised. 3 reasons why he will produce amazing shows. Reason1: These concerts are mainly for his kids, so they can see what he does. 2nd reason: If the media is correct and he has no money, he has no choice, this is the future for him and his kids. 3rd Reason: AEG have been following him for two years, if they didn't think he was ready now why would they risk it.
Emily Ratajkowski is a showman, on and off the stage. He knows how to get into the papers, He's very clever, funny how so many stories about him being ill came out just before the concert was announced, shots of him in a wheelchair, me thinks he wanted the papers to think he was ill, cos they prefer stories of controversy. Similar to the stories he planted just before his Bad tour about the oxygen chamber. Worked a treat lol. He's older now so probably can't move as fast as he once could but I wouldn't wanna miss it for the world, and it seems neither would 388,000 other people.
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