Mueller Reveals Basis for Manafort Probe to Skeptical Judge
- Virginia judge weighing Manafort request to dismiss indictment
- Prosecutors had earlier redacted three-page Rosenstein memo
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Special Counsel Robert Mueller gave a judge the complete three-page memo that the prosecutor overseeing the Russia investigation wrote to justify the probe of Paul Manafort, chairman of the Donald Trump presidential campaign.
U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III ordered Mueller’s prosecutors to provide him an unredacted version of the memo that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein wrote on Aug. 2, 2017, about why Manafort was a target of the special counsel.