Subject: BREAKING NEWS: Judge splits on Manafort lying charges
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Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2019 17:51:01 -0600
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A federal judge ruled partly in favor of special counsel Robert Mueller on Wednesday that Paul Manafort violated the terms of his guilty plea by lying to federal prosecutors and a grand jury.
 
The decision by U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson confirms some of Mueller's latest set of charges against the former Donald Trump campaign chairman that he lied during guilty-plea-stipulated cooperation sessions about his contacts with Konstantin Kilimnik, a longtime aide alleged to have ties to Russian intelligence.
 
Jackson, however, ruled that Mueller had "failed to establish by a preponderance of the evidence" that Manafort intentionally made a false statement about his contacts with the Trump administration. Jackson's four-page order said Mueller was "no longer bound" by the plea agreement terms he'd reached with Manafort in September, including the special counsel's pledge to support a less-stringent sentence.
 
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