Mueller to call witnesses from IRS, FBI for Manafort trial: report
By Justin Wise - 07/24/18 11:34 AM EDT
Special counsel Robert Mueller's prosecutors reportedly plan to call witnesses from the FBI, the IRS and the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network during former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort's trial.
Politico reported that one of the lead investigators made the announcement at a pretrial hearing on Tuesday as the judge presiding over the case laid out broad parameters to potential jurors, including a timeline of Manafort's alleged crimes.
On Monday, U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III ordered Mueller to turn over its full witness list of about 30 people, Politico noted. The news site reports that Ellis said on Tuesday that the list would be made public by the end of the week.
Uzo Asonye, a Mueller prosecutor, reportedly argued on Tuesday that the witness list is not normally disclosed before a trial.
“Yes, I know, but this isn’t a typical case,†Ellis responded.
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