Mueller airs new bank fraud allegations against Paul Manafort

Feb 16 2018, 10:59 pm ET
Mueller airs new bank fraud allegations against Paul Manafort
by Tracy Connor


Special counsel Robert Mueller is ratcheting up the pressure on former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort, saying in a court document that investigators have uncovered new evidence of bank fraud.

The allegations were disclosed not in a criminal complaint or superseding indictment but in the government's response to Manafort's motion on a proposed bail package late Friday.

Prosecutors said Manafort's proposal was deficient in "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," prosecutors wrote, alleging that Manafort overstated income in financial statements he used to get a $9 million mortgage on a Fairfax, Va., house he intended to put up as bail.

"At the next bail hearing, we can proffer to the Court additional evidence related to this and the other bank frauds and conspiracies, which the Court may find relevant to the bail risk posed by Manafort," prosecutors wrote.

Manafort's attorneys did not immediately respond to a request for comment, and Mueller provided no other details in the filing.

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