Manafort guilty: Courtroom win bolsters special counsel's credibility

Paul Manafort’s conviction on tax evasion and bank fraud charges clears the way for special counsel Robert Mueller to exert even more pressure on the former Trump campaign chairman to cooperate in his investigation of alleged Russian meddling and collusion in the 2016 presidential election. The verdict, announced in federal court in Alexandria, Va., came within the same hour that President Trump’s former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, entered a guilty plea for eight charges in federal court in New York. In the Manafort case, the jury of six women and six men found the long-time political consultant guilty of eight of the 18 federal charges in his indictment.

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