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Rick Gates, following the obsessive coverage of Manafort’s sentencing process in the news, reached out to the Special Counsel a couple weeks ago to provide new evidence, correct the record, and do his old boss a solid. documentcloud.org/documents/5753… 
That document is a wonderland for redaction guessers, btw.
This is the key passage. Gates variously confirmed and questioned some things relied on at the Manafort breach hearing. Whatever he said sent the SCO back to its files, where they found something they had, and had given the defense, but neither side had focused on before...
The rest of the filing goes on to argue that this new(ish) evidence should not disturb the court’s conclusion that Manafort lied about some subject matter—almost certainly the specifics of Manafort sharing the polling data with Kilimnik.
What this says without any doubt is that five days before several news outlets reported that DOJ was preparing to receive Mueller’s final report this week, the Special Counsel and FBI were debriefing a key witness and learning new details about the core of their investigation.
So for future reference, it seems fair to say that these DOJ officials are not necessarily up to date on the absolute latest developments.
