Mark your calendars for Convict Manafort Trial, Part 2: The Treason Trial! September 17.

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A judge in Washington on Wednesday set a Sept. 17 trial date for former Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort on charges from special counsel Robert Mueller, including money laundering and failing to register as a foreign agent.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/28/judge-sets-sept-17-trial-date-for-manafort-on-mueller-charges-430621

Federal prosecutors said in the indictment filed in Washington against Manafort that he secretly enlisted a group of “former European politicians,” including a former European chancellor to advocate on behalf of the pro-Russian faction Manafort represented in Ukraine.

Prosecutors have asserted that Manafort wired the unnamed officials more than 2 million euros from his offshore accounts and tried to cover up their work even while holding a senior role in Trump's campaign.

Manafort's case has been the first taken to trial by the special counsel's office. The trial in Washington will be the second by Mueller's office.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/08/19/paul-manafort-second-trial-mueller/1034142002/

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On edit, this juicy peach:

Manafort’s charges for failing to register alone shocked the system. But Mueller added another unusual unusual charge: lying to the DOJ about his work in Ukraine five separate times, each of which carries a sentence of up to five years in prison if he’s convicted.

“That served as a wake-up call to current FARA registrants that they can’t make errors that they know are errors,” Rosenstein said. At least half a dozen current clients have called his boutique firm asking for help reviewing their prior filings to the DOJ. “We take special care with our clients to make sure that what they do file is accurate, so it’s unusual to have that many inquiries in this short a time.”

https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/bjdy83/the-manafort-indictment-is-killing-d-c-s-secret-lobbying-business