Special Counsel’s Trump Probe Adds Manafort Case

FILE - In this July 18, 2016, file photo, Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort walks around the convention floor before the opening session of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. Hillary Clinton’s campaign is questioning Donald Trump’s top political aide’s ties to a pro-Kremlin political party in Ukraine, claiming it is evidence of the Republican nominee’s cozy relationship with Russia. The New York Times reported that handwritten ledgers found in Ukraine show $12.7 million in undisclosed payments to Paul Manafort from the pro-Russia party founded by the country’s former president Viktor Yanukovych. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
FILE - In this July 18, 2016, file photo, Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort walks around the convention floor before the opening session of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. Manafort resigned in wa... FILE - In this July 18, 2016, file photo, Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort walks around the convention floor before the opening session of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. Manafort resigned in wake of campaign shakeup and revelations about Ukraine work. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File) MORE LESS
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The Associated Press has learned that the special counsel running the U.S. investigation into possible ties between President Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia’s government has assumed oversight of an ongoing investigation involving former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.

The investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller may also expand to look into the roles of the attorney general and deputy attorney general in the firing of FBI Director James Comey.

The Justice Department’s criminal investigation into Manafort, who was forced to resign in August amid questions over his past business dealings in Ukraine, predated the election and the counterintelligence probe investigating possible collusion between Moscow and associates of Donald Trump.

The move to consolidate the matters indicates that Mueller is assuming a broad mandate in his new role.

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  1. Remember less than five months ago when the Executive branch of the government and everybody in it wasn’t under investigation? Yeah, it does seem like such a long, long time ago.

  2. Okay. We’ve got a bunch of nets in the water, when are we going to start the haul back? Some of these characters are likely to be pretty slippery. We know they’re slimy.

  3. Avatar for tena tena says:

    Which is why they can’t yank that net around or pull it out too soon.

    This to me is a pretty stunning development.

  4. There will be a reckoning one way or another I think.

  5. “may also expand to look into the roles of the attorney general and deputy attorney general in the firing of FBI Director James Comey”

    He is not messing around (not that I figured he would, but still good to see).

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