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Jury convicts Manafort on eight felony counts | TheHill

posted onAugust 22, 2018
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Article snippet: ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Former Trump campaign chairman MORE was found guilty in a Virginia courtroom on Tuesday of eight charges of bank and tax fraud.  The jury found Manafort guilty on five charges of filing false income tax returns, one count of failing to report foreign bank accounts and two counts of bank fraud.  Manafort looked stunned after the verdict was read, and the courtoom was silent and still. He winked at his wife, Kathleen Manafort, as he was escorted out of the room after Ellis adjourned the proceedings. Kathleen Manafort, who had sat behind her husband in the first row each day, was stone faced as the verdict was read. The one guilty count of failing to report foreign bank accounts carries a maximum of five years in prison and each count of bank fraud carries a maximum sentence of 30 years. The decision is a victory for special counsel MORE's team of prosecutors, which faced its first test in court on the Manafort case. Russia and the 2016 election, however, were not major parts of the trial against Manafort.  It was also part of a difficult day for MORE, who saw his former campaign chairman convicted on the same day that his former personal lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, pleaded guilty in a New York courtroom to eight counts related to charges of tax evasion, false statements to a financial institution and and illegal campaign contributions. Both of these stories broke as Trump took off on Air Force One for a campaign rally in West Virginia. Trump ... Link to the full article to read more

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