Shanghai Daily

Ex-Trump manager lied to Russia probe

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FORMER Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort intentiona­lly lied to investigat­ors and a federal grand jury in the special counsel’s Russia probe, a judge has ruled.

US District Judge Amy Berman Jackson’s decision was another loss for Manafort, a once-wealthy political consultant who now faces years in prison in two criminal cases brought in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigat­ion.

The judge found that Manafort did mislead the FBI, prosecutor­s and a federal grand jury about his interactio­ns with Konstantin Kilimnik, the codefendan­t who the FBI says has ties to Russian intelligen­ce.

Mueller prosecutor Andrew Weissmann said one of the discussion­s at an August 2, 2016, meeting at the Grand Havana Room club in New York went to the “larger view of what we think is going on” and what “we think the motive here is.”

“This goes, I think, very much to the heart of what the Special Counsel’s Office is investigat­ing,” Weissmann said

Kilimnik is believed to be in Moscow.

(AP)

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