Article snippet: Newly unsealed court documents reveal August 2016 emails between former Trump campaign manager District of Columbia, include correspondence between Manafort and Gates from August 21, 2016, two days after Manafort resigned. That e-mail outlines "3 main attacks" in the strategy: "1. Cash ledger 2. Fara (redacted) 3. Russia." Manafort and Gates charged in October with, among other charges, making false or misleading statements on Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) filings and acting as unregistered agents of a foreign principal: Ukraine. Another email, dated September 5, 2016 from Gates to Manafort, contains a strategy memo titled "Outline of Issues." The document includes a section about "PJM work in Ukraine" with the first points being "1. Never worked in Russia or for Russians," and "2. Work was centered on pro-Ukraine efforts to enter into the EU." The memo also included a section about "PJM work in other countries," and the "need to beat back the idea that this was nefarious work." The memo referred to the work as being "on behalf of the US government" and "in support and promotion of pro-democratic values around the world." Manafort, in an earlier filing, had requested that his restrictive house arrest conditions be relaxed. The special counsel shot back in a filing last Monday that alleged Manafort defied the court's strict gag order "requiring all interested parties, in particular, counsel for both sides, to refrain from making further statem... Link to the full article to read more