Manafort's cooperation agreement does not include matters involving the Trump campaign.
Podesta’s misdeeds have been referred to New York prosecutors, by Mueller.
“Various employees of Companies A and B understood that they were receiving direction from MANAFORT and President Yanukovych, not the European Centre for a Modern Ukraine.”

#TOAST 🥂
Special Counsel Robert Mueller has referred cases on a group of prominent American lobbyists, including Tony Podesta, to federal prosecutors in New York.
Mueller also referred former Obama White House General Counsel Greg Craig and Vin Weber to the New York office.

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Becoming a Word Sleuth: Anonymity works sometimes, but forensic linguists are a pesky lot. An English professor @Vassar (linguistics sleuth) correctly exposed @Newsweek’s Joe Klein as the anonymous author of a novel on Bill Clinton's first run. npr.org/2018/09/09/646…
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Amen.
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