Article snippet: Special Counsel MORE’s one-time campaign chairman, violated his plea agreement by lying to federal prosecutors. “After signing the plea agreement, Manafort committed federal crimes by lying to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Special Counsel’s Office on a variety of subject matters, which constitute breaches of the agreement,” Mueller's team said in a joint status report with Paul Manafort's defense attorneys filed late Monday. Mueller’s prosecutors asked the judge to schedule a date for sentencing. Manafort was convicted on eight counts of bank and tax fraud over the summer in a separate case in Northern Virginia and agreed to cooperate with Mueller in September in order to avert a second federal trial in Washington, D.C. As part of the agreement, Manafort pleaded guilty to two felony charges related to his foreign lobbying efforts and agreed to fully cooperate with Mueller’s sprawling investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. He had been working with the special counsel for roughly 2 1/2 months. Manafort, who served on Trump’s campaign for six months, was seen as a crucial witness in Mueller’s inquiry into whether anyone on the campaign colluded with Moscow. He was one of three Trump associates who attended the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting with a Russian lawyer that was arranged by MORE, Trump’s Democratic opponent. However, Manafort's attorneys said in their own portion of the filing that he met with Mueller’s officials “numerou... Link to the full article to read more