Federal prosecutors on Friday DROPPED five of seven charges pending against Paul Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, in a step toward a plea agreement expected to be finalized within hours.
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Manafort is charged with one count of conspiracy and one count of conspiracy to obstruct justice. The prosecutors dropped five other charges encompassing money laundering and violations of a lobbying disclosure law.
Uh...is it me, or does this look & smell like cooperation?
Uh...is it me, or does this look & smell like cooperation?
The new court filing indicates that prosecutors have taken a number of the earlier charges against Manafort, including a money laundering charge that could, on its own, bring a 20-year sentence, and folded them into two charges that would each yield five-year sentences.
I'm not really trusting ABC's reading of the superseding indictment & what charges Manafort is pleading too. They seem to have missed a lot of stuff.
This is who I trust:
This is who I trust:
Also, we get to finally see Mueller's signature. H/T @SpicyFiles 
Okay I get it now. Pleading to two charges but has to discuss all the other stuff listed in the superseding doc to the court.
