New Manafort filing: Prosecutors argue that grand jury testimony from the attorney who handled his foreign agent paperwork for the Justice Department should be admissible during trial, which Manafort has argued is privileged attorney-client material.
Not so prosecutors say, pointing to the chief judge's ruling 10/2/17, which compelled the attorney's testimony on the basis that the crime-fraud exception to privilege applies and the attorney should be made to answer 7 specific questions.
Prosecutors stopped short of calling this the law of the case but say Manafort presented no factual basis on which to disturb the chief judge's ruling, adding that he is barred by the doctrine of issue preclusion from re-litigating the issue. documentcloud.org/documents/4852…
