Special Counsel Robert Mueller in court filings Friday indicated that he would be seeking a May 14 trial date for former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and campaign aide Rick Gates.
Manafort and Gates have been charged in federal court in Washington with money laundering, tax evasion and failure to disclose foreign lobbying, part of Mueller’s broader probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Both have pleaded not guilty.
The proposed trial date came in a status report to the judge in the case in which Mueller also updated the court on the discovery process.
Mueller’s team has handed over to the defense more than 590,000 items, including “financial records, records from vendors identified in the indictment, email communications involving the defendants, and corporate records,” the filing said.
Mueller’s team has previously told the court in filings that it will likely need three weeks to lay out its case against Manafort and Gates.
Read the filing below:
Nice way to keep applying pressure, Mr. Mueller.
When are you going to book Donnie’s trial? The sooner the better…
In early May, Manafort and Gates are going to be flipping faster than a fish on a fantail.
WOW, this is a boatload of information that will be presented in this case! This is going to be a very interesting trial and I intend to keep up on all of it! Gee, I wonder how much evidence does Mueller have on the dotard?
If he wants their trial on May 14, that means he’s going to wrap up everything with Big Button before then.
He’ll want to use the other charges and hold these over their head.
He’s moving quick.
Three weeks? Holy Crap! I’m not a lawyer, but three weeks to lay out the prosecution of a criminal case? That seems like a loooooong time. It’s almost as if Mueller’s had piles, mountains, even, of evidence.
Oh. Yeah. That’d do it.