Paul Manafort charged in 16-count indictment in New York state, the first charges that are outside Trump's pardon power
By Spencer S. Hsu , Spencer S. Hsu Investigative reporter Email Bio Follow Rachel Weiner and Rachel Weiner Local reporter covering federal court in Alexandria, Va. and local court in Arlington and Alexandria. Email Bio Follow Ann E. Marimow Ann E. Marimow Reporter covering legal affairs Email Bio Follow March 13 at 1:16 PM Breaking: Paul Manafort has been charged in a 16-count indictment in New York state, the first charges that are outside President Trump’s pardon power.
The question of whether anyone in Donald Trump’s campaign “conspired or colluded with” the Russian government “was not presented in this case,” she said, so for Manafort’s attorneys to emphasize that no such collusion was proved, she said, is “a non-sequitur.” “No one is beyond the law in New York,” Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr. said in a statement announcing the indictment. “Following an investigation commenced by our office in March 2017, a Manhattan grand jury has charged Mr. Manafort with state criminal violations which strike at the heart of New York’s sovereign interests, including the integrity of our residential mortgage market.
He added that nine months in solitary confinement after being jailed on charges of of witness tampering gave him “new self-awareness.”Jackson said Manafort’s crimes were “not just a failure to comply with some pesky regulations,” but “lying to the American people and the American Congress. . . . It is hard to overstate the number of lies and amount of money involved.”
Manafort’s attempt to cover up his crimes by asking witnesses to lie for him, Weissmann said, “is not reflective of somebody who has learned a harsh lesson. It is not a reflection of remorse. It is evidence that something is wrong with sort of a moral compass.” The investigation of Manafort predated the appointment of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III in 2017, and it wasn’t the special counsel’s office that made Manafort lie to investigators, she said.
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