Special Counsel Mueller filing shows Manafort drafted Ukraine op-ed despite gag orderSarah N. Lynch / DECEMBER 8, 2017 / 4:18 PM / UPDATED 9 HOURS AGO
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-manafort/special-counsel-mueller-filing-shows-manafort-drafted-ukraine-op-ed-despite-gag-order-idUSKBN1E22P2WASHINGTON (Reuters on Friday ) - U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller late on Friday unveiled a trove of evidence against President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort to convince a judge that he violated a gag order by ghost-writing an article to bolster his public image.
The evidence Mueller revealed in a filing, which is a fraction of what he said earlier on Friday he has collected, is the first clear indication of the depth of his investigation and the nature of what his investigators have found.
In the 41-page filing, prosecutors in Mueller’s office produced emails, drafts with tracked edits and records showing that a computer user named “paul manafort†created a version of the op-ed and made numerous changes on November 29 “between 8:41 p.m. and 9:11 p.m.â€, and “last saved at 9:12 p.m.â€.
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