Judge orders Mueller to turn over names in alleged Manafort scheme

WASHINGTON — A federal judge has ordered prosecutors to tell Paul Manafort by Friday the names of the European politicians and unidentified “others” that investigators allege were part of Manafort’s secret lobbying campaign for Ukraine.

The deadline falls on the same day that U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the District of Columbia is set to decide whether to jail President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager while he awaits trial after prosecutors charge he tampered with witnesses in the ongoing cases.

In a five-page order Tuesday, Jackson mostly denied Manafort’s challenge to the legal adequacy of his indictment in the District of Columbia for conspiracy and money laundering brought by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

Jackson found the charges sufficiently “specific” and “suffices to put the defendant on notice of the nature of the charges against him.”