Article snippet: A federal judge has scheduled a hearing Tuesday in another step toward deciding whether MORE accused him of lying about his contacts with White House officials. Judge Amy Berman Jackson has ordered Manafort’s defense attorneys and Mueller’s prosecutors to appear for a status conference at 3 p.m. Tuesday. The hearing comes in lieu of the Wednesday deadline that Manafort’s lawyers faced to respond to the special counsel’s report laying out the onetime Trump campaign chairman’s alleged lies, which included concealing direct and indirect interactions with White House officials that occurred as recently as this year. Manafort claims he told the truth and did not violate the terms of his agreement, his lawyers wrote in an earlier filing. Should Manafort wish to decline to appear in court as he has done previously, he will need to do so by filing a waiver. Jackson originally scheduled the hearing for 10 a.m. Wednesday, but Manafort's attorneys asked that it be moved up. The hearing is sure to be the latest flashpoint in Manafort’s case. Manafort, who was convicted on eight federal fraud charges in Virginia in August, pleaded guilty to two additional charges in Washington, D.C., in September and agreed to cooperate with Mueller’s investigation into whether anyone from the Trump campaign coordinated with Moscow to interfere in the 2016 election. However, Manafort’s plea agreement with Mueller broke down dramatically as the special counsel accused him of lying on a var... Link to the full article to read more