In addition to the Manafort news, Mueller scored a small win today in the lesser-watched Internet Research Agency case. Judge rejected an attempt by one of the Russian companies to review the grand jury instructions, which they claimed were faulty. The judge passed.
Concord Management wanted the judge to privately examine any instructions given by Mueller’s team to the grand jury. Judge Dabney Friedrich, a Trump appointee, rejected this and said it didn’t meet the high bar to beach grand jury secrecy.
“I see no need to breach the secrecy of the grand jury... Breaching the secrecy of the grand jury is not an easy thing to do," Friedrich said in court today.
