Paul Manafort allegedly tampers with a potential witness in Mueller probe
Washington — Paul Manafort, the one-time chairman of US President Donald Trump’s campaign, may have tried to obtain false testimony from a potential witness at one of his upcoming criminal trials, special counsel Robert Mueller told a Washington judge on Monday evening. Manafort faces five federal charges, including illegal lobbying for Ukraine and conspiracy to launder money, in a revised indictment filed against him in February. Originally indicted in October, he has pleaded not guilty and is currently confined to his home on a $10m bond. The alleged tampering with a potential witness, if true, would be a crime, violating the terms of Manafort’s pre-trial release. The special counsel’s office has now asked US district judge Amy Berman Jackson to reconsider those release terms, telling her that after the superseding charges were lodged, he contacted two public relations firm executives and attempted to persuade at least one of them to alter his account of events underlying the lobb...
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