Mueller wants to review emails between Manafort, former lawyer

[mystery-ak]

Mueller wants to review emails between Manafort, former lawyer

By THEODORIC MEYER

08/29/2018 06:39 PM EDT


Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team wants to review emails between Paul Manafort and one of his former lawyers — messages that would typically be protected by attorney-client privilege.

Manafort’s emails are a special case, Mueller’s team argued in a court motion Wednesday. Attorney-client privilege doesn’t apply when the client enlists a lawyer’s help to commit a crime — and that’s what Mueller’s team is arguing that Manafort did.

The special counsel asked the court’s permission to review “four documents.” It’s not clear what those messages contain. The sections of the motion that appear to describe them are redacted.

Manafort, the former campaign chief for President Donald Trump, has been charged with failing to register as a foreign agent and is set to stand trial next month in Washington. He was convicted earlier this month on eight charges of tax evasion and bank fraud in a separate trial in Alexandria, Virginia.

The question of how attorney-client privilege applies to a lawyer who advised Manafort and his former deputy, Rick Gates, around their foreign lobbying work on behalf of former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych has dogged the Washington case for nearly a year.

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https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/29/mueller-manafort-emails-lawyer-803921

[skeeter]

He'll just keep stomping all over the Constitution until somebody stops him.

[endicom]

He'll just keep stomping all over the Constitution until somebody stops him.

It sure seems so. They can violate client-attorney privilege if suspecting criminal activity? Couldn't that be so in any criminal investigation? After all, there would be no investigation without suspicion of criminal activity.

[skeeter]

It sure seems so. They can violate client-attorney privilege if suspecting criminal activity? Couldn't that be so in any criminal investigation? After all, there would be no investigation without suspicion of criminal activity.

Every of us is entitled to representation by a defense attorney, just don't share with them anything relating to your trial the DA can subpoena.