Paul Manafort's Lawyers Want to Know Where Jurors Get Their News

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By Andrew M Harris

July 2, 2018 at 10:16 PM UTC

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Lawyers for Paul Manafort want to know where his prospective jurors get their news, how they vote and what they know about the one-time Trump campaign chairman charged with bank fraud and filing false tax returns.

Those and other proposed questions were submitted to U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III on Monday in advance of Manafort’s Alexandria federal court trial set to start July 25. He’s accused of concealing income from years of work done to benefit now-former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. Barring a plea deal, it will be the first of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s cases to go the distance.