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Manafort Judge Questions Claim of Improper Records Seizure

  • Ex-worker allowed search of unit holding business, tax records
  • Onetime Trump campaign chairman wants evidence suppressed
Paul Manafort arrives at federal court in Washington, D.C., on May 23.

Paul Manafort arrives at federal court in Washington, D.C., on May 23.

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A federal judge posed skeptical questions about Paul Manafort’s claim that an FBI agent improperly searched a storage unit that held his business records before the former chairman to President Donald Trump’s campaign was charged in two indictments.

Manafort’s lawyers argued Wednesday to a federal judge in Washington that records seized by the FBI should be suppressed because the agent improperly gained access to the storage space from a former employee of Manafort’s political consulting firm who still had a key.