A federal judge has scheduled a hearing Tuesday in another step toward deciding whether Paul Manafort should be declared in breach of his plea agreement after special counsel Robert Mueller accused him of lying about his contacts with White House officials.
The hearing comes in lieu of the Wednesday deadline that Manafort’s lawyers faced to respond to the special counsel’s report laying out the onetime Trump campaign chairman’s alleged lies, which included concealing direct and indirect interactions with White House officials that occurred as recently as this year.
Manafort, who was convicted on eight federal fraud charges in Virginia in August, pleaded guilty to two additional charges in Washington, D.C., in September. However, Manafort’s plea agreement with Mueller broke down dramatically as the special counsel accused him of lying on a variety of subjects to prosecutors and FBI agents during the investigation into Russian interference in the election.
]Manafort claims he told the truth and did not violate the terms of his agreement.
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{Matzav.com}
