Robert Mueller Just Hit Paul Manafort With New Bank Fraud Charges
The Special Counsel has found ‘additional criminal conduct’ by Trump’s former campaign chairman.
It’s been a busy day for Robert Mueller and his team of federal investigators – and presumably just as busy for the legal teams of Donald Trump and his associates.
Early Friday, the Office of the Special Counsel revealed a massive new grand jury indictment of 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities with charges of violating U.S. criminal law to interfere in the 2016 election.
And now we are getting some late-breaking news that Mueller’s not done for the day.
According to a new report by Politico, Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team has filed additional criminal charges against Paul Manafort.
The Politico report notes that “Mueller’s office has told a federal judge it has found evidence that Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman, committed bank fraud not addressed by the indictment last October in which he was charged with money laundering and failure to register as a foreign agent.”
Mueller’s court filing from Tuesday notes, “The proposed package is deficient in the government’s view, in light of additional criminal conduct that we have learned since the Court’s initial bail determination. That criminal conduct includes a series of bank frauds and bank fraud conspiracies.”
Read the full Politico piece here.
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