Manafort pleads guilty AND will cooperate with Special Prosecutor
> Paul Manafort, Trump’s former campaign chair, pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the US and conspiring to obstruct justice in return for other charges being dropped
> Mueller’s team indicated that Manafort would receive a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison
> The judge told Manafort he must cooperate “fully, truthfully, completely, and forthrightly”
> The plea deal allows Manafort to avoid a second criminal trial, which was due to start in Washington next week
The White House said the case was “totally unrelated” to Trump
Manafort allegedly schemed to have “Obama Jews” exert pressure on Barack Obama’s administration to support Yanukovych and disavow Tymoshenko, and conspired with an Israeli government official to spread allegations linking Tymoshenko to antisemitism. Manafort allegedly wrote in one message to an unidentified associate: “I have someone pushing it on the NY Post. Bada bing bada boom.”
“We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children” First Nations proverb.
