truth, manafort s lawyers denying that. this is chockful of incidents we can draw from. neither party is seeking to withdraw from the plea agreement. they re both saying we are ready to proceed to sentencing. that tells me one thing, one, mueller has gotten everything he wanted out of manafort and two the defense is unwilling to try to fight the battle of where they re wanting to withdraw from the plea aagreement. there s one very interesting passage in paragraph five that tells me even manafort s lawyers recognize he probably didn t tell the whole truth. what they say is after signing the plea agreement, manafort met with the government on numerous occasions to answer the government s question. manafort has provided information to the government in an effort to live up to its cooperation obligations and he, manafort, believes he has provided truthful information and doesn t agree with the
and crimes. quote, as the defendant has breached the plea agreement, there is no reason to delay his sentencing herein. now the filing tonight is a joint status report filed by both the special counsel and manafort s attorneys. as such, it also lays out paul manafort s side of the story wherein he denies the latest allegations against him. quote, after signing the plan agreement, manafort met with the government on numerous occasions and answered the government s questions. manafort has provide information to the government in an effort to live up to his cooperation obligations. it goes on. he believes he has provided truthful information and does not agree with the government s characterization or that he has breached the agreement. given the conflict in the parties positions, there is no reason to delay the sentencing herein, and he asks the court to set a sentencing date in this matter. paul manafort has been in solitary confinement in a virginia jail since june when he was accus
on numerous occasions and answered the government s questions. manafort has provided information to the government. in an effort to live up to the cooperation obligations he believes he has provided truthful information and does not agree with the government s characterization or that he has breached the agreement. given the conflict in the party s positions there is no reason to delay the sentencing herein, and he asks the court to set a sentencing date in this matter. joining our discussion now on this breaking news, harry litman, former u.s. attorney and deputy assistant attorney general under president clinton. mimi roca, and ron klain, former chief of staff to biden and al gore, and a former senior aide to president obama. ron klain, the reason i raise the possibility of a pardon is that sentencing, which is now going to come, leaves the possibility of paul manafort being sentenced to decades,
sentencing herein. now the filing tonight is a joint status report filed by both the special counsel and manafort s attorneys. as such, it also lays out paul manafort s side of the story wherein he denies the latest allegations against him. quote, after signing the plan agreement, manafort met with the government on numerous occasions and answered the government s questions. manafort has provide information to the government in an effort to live up to his cooperation obligations. it goes on. he believes he has provided truthful information and does not agree with the government s characterization or that he has breached the agreement. given the conflict in the parties positions, there is no reason to delay the sentencing herein, and he asks the court to set a sentencing date in this matter. paul manafort has been in solitary confinement in a virginia jail since june when he was accused of violating his probation by actively tampering with witnesses to try the get
tonight mueller s prosecutors filed court documents accusing manafort of lying to the feds repeatedly as they question him for the russia investigation, quote, 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 constitutes breaches of the agreement. that same document includes a response from manafort s defense team which disagreed with the government s conclusion, and we quote. manafort met with the government on numerous occasions and answered the government s questions. manafort has provided information to the government in an effort to live up to his cooperation obligations. he believes he has provided truthful information and does not agree with the government s characterization or that he has breached the agreement. both sides have asked the judge to set a sentencing date. manafort, who is now 69 years old, was convicted in august of financial