Article snippet: Former Trump campaign chairman MORE's office. Mueller filed a superseding indictment Friday in a D.C. court that brought two new counts against Manafort and Konstantin Kilimnik, a longtime Manafort aide. The two new counts, which layer onto five previously issued charges, accuse Manafort and Kilimnik, who ran the Kiev office of Manafort’s political consulting company Davis Manafort Partners, of obstructing justice and conspiracy to obstruct justice. The obstruction charges are related to Manafort and Kilimnik’s efforts to coach — or even “prevent” — the testimonies of two witnesses involved in the case, according to prosecutors. In March, documents filed by Mueller's team had alleged that Manafort and his longtime business associate Richard Gates were aware that an unidentified associate "was a former Russian Intelligence Officer.” While the documents at the time only described this individual in question as "Person A,” new stories reported that this associate matched the description of Kilimnik, a longtime Russian employee of Manafort’s. The court filings accuse Manafort, Gates and Kilimnik 2006 until 2014. The allegations concern events that took place years before Manafort joined the Trump campaign. The indictment says Manafort and his associates sought to have top European politicians “take positions favorable to Ukraine” when lobbying the U.S., “secretly” paying them for such efforts. “The plan was for the former politicians, informally called the ‘Hapsbu... Link to the full article to read more