A federal judge denied a request by Paul Manafort, the former campaign chairman for President Donald Trump, to dismiss one of two counts in an indictment as unnecessarily overlapping.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller didn’t violate the double-jeopardy clause of the U.S. Constitution by charging Manafort with two crimes based on the exact same facts and circumstances, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled Friday in federal court in Washington. Manafort is charged there with laundering millions of dollars and acting as an unregistered foreign agent for Ukraine.
