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Ex-Trump aide Manafort pleads guilty, to cooperate with Mueller probe

by Compiled from Wire Services

ISTANBUL Sep 14, 2018 - 12:00 am GMT+3
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort departs the federal court house after a status hearing in Washington, D.C., USA, on Feb. 14, 2018. (EPA Photo)
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort departs the federal court house after a status hearing in Washington, D.C., USA, on Feb. 14, 2018. (EPA Photo)
by Compiled from Wire Services Sep 14, 2018 12:00 am

U.S. President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort on Friday agreed to cooperate with U.S. prosecutors investigating alleged Russia election meddling as part of his plea agreement, prosecutors told a federal court in Washington.

In a plea deal to avert a second trial on money laundering and illegal lobbying charges, Manafort agreed to plead guilty to one count of conspiracy against the United States and another count of obstruction of justice.

Prosecutor Andrew Weissman said in court Friday that Manafort had struck a "cooperation agreement." He did not elaborate on the agreement.

Manafort could eventually be sentenced to up to 10 years in prison as a part of the deal, and will forfeit four real estate properties worth millions of dollars, as well as bank accounts and a life insurance policy.

The move comes as Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia increasingly pressures the White House.

It avoids a potentially explosive trial that could embarrass the president and his Republican party during the seven weeks before hotly contested national elections.

The White House quickly responded to the announcement of a plea bargain, as press secretary Sarah Sanders: "This had absolutely nothing to do with the president or his victorious 2016 presidential campaign. It is totally unrelated."

Manafort, who worked for the Trump campaign for nearly six months in the middle of 2016, was already convicted in a separate jury trial on eight counts related to financial fraud in August.

But those charges, as well as the two counts covered in Friday's plea deal, were unrelated to the campaign.

Instead, they derived from his work for former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych and his pro-Moscow political party between about 2005 and 2014.

Prosecutors say Manafort acted illegally as a lobbyist for Yanukovych and earned tens of millions of dollars which he laundered through Greek Cyprus and other offshore banking locations and did not pay taxes on.

The indictment said he laundered more than $30 million into the Untied States to by properties and luxury goods and "cheated the United States out of over $15 million in taxes."

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