Mueller Plays Hardball With Manafort, Sending a Message to Others
- Allegations suggest corrupt intent to cover improper lobbying
- Working with Ukraine fixer who’d been tied to Russian intel
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Paul Manafort’s attempts to contact witnesses in his criminal case not only deepens his legal peril, but also sends a chilling message to others under Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s scrutiny.
Already charged with multiple crimes, Manafort attempted early this year to get people at a public relations firm to lie about a lobbying project several years earlier, Mueller’s office said Monday. That, prosecutors said, amounted to attempted witness-tampering by President Donald Trump’s onetime campaign chairman.