Paul Manafort's Lawyers Appear to Accidentally Blow the Door Open on Collusion
The legal saga of Paul Manafort took yet another twist on Tuesday.
Lawyers for Trumps disgraced former campaign chairman, who was convicted of tax and bank fraud last year, submitted a filing in Washington, D.C., federal court responding to Special Counsel Robert Muellers assertion that Manafort had lied to Muellers office and so violated his plea agreement. Manaforts lawyers pushed back on that claim by saying that he had extensively cooperated with Mueller, meeting with the government lawyers and investigators a dozen times and twice testifying before a grand jury.
But Manaforts team screwed up.
They tried to redact four different passages in their filing, but failed to do so properly, leaving the redacted text in plain sight. For instance, Manaforts lawyers responded to Muellers allegation that Manafort lied to the government about his interactions with a man named Konstantin Kilimnik, who was Manaforts right-hand man during his time as a powerful political consultant in Ukraine. Whats more noteworthy is that Kilimnik has alleged connections to Russian intelligence.
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