Influential Republican consultant and former Minnesota congressman Vin Weber resigned on Friday from Mercury LLC, a major DC consulting firm, amid ongoing scrutiny of his Ukranian lobbying efforts.
Greg Craig, the former White House counsel in 2009 and 2010, has maintained he was not a foreign agent of the Ukrainian government when he worked with lobbyist Paul Manafort in 2012 regarding a report he wrote on Ukraine, as he testifies in his own defense Wednesday.
Top Mueller cooperator and star trial witness Rick Gates had it easier his second time around.
The Mueller investigation cost a total of almost $32 million through the course of the probe, according to newly released figures from the Justice Department.
Paul Manafort pleaded not guilty Thursday in New York state's Supreme Court to state fraud charges brought by the Manhattan district attorney's office, the third criminal case he has faced in recent years and one that may trigger a battle on double jeopardy grounds.
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort will be arraigned Thursday afternoon in New York City on state fraud charges, a source familiar with the matter tells CNN.
President Donald Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort may not be headed to Rikers Island after the Trump administration's new deputy attorney general fielded a request from his defense lawyers to keep him in a federal prison.
Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York said Wednesday it was wrong for the government to hold people in solitary confinement as she called for better treatment of Paul Manafort.
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort could be headed to Rikers Island, the notorious jail complex in New York City, if prosecutors get their way.
Manhattan federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment Thursday charging a banker with bribing former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort with $16 million in loans in order to secure a high-ranking position in the presidential administration.
