Special Counsel: Manafort Ghostwrote Op-Ed With Russian Colleague
Lawyers on Robert Mueller's team contend the unpublished op-ed shows Manafort is untrustworthy.
December 05, 2017 at 01:52 PM
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The original version of this story was published on National Law Journal
Government lawyers told a federal judge Monday that Paul Manafort violated a gag order she issued last month.
In a filing Monday, lawyers for the special counsel's office wrote that the New Britain native and former Trump campaign manager has, as late as Nov. 30, been ghostwriting an op-ed with an unnamed Russian colleague “regarding his political work for Ukraine.” The colleague, the lawyers said, is “assessed to have ties to a Russian intelligence service.”
U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the District of Columbia issued an order Nov. 8 barring the parties and counsel in the case from making public statements that could affect Manafort's trial.
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