the trial for greg craig finally got under way today in federal court in d.c. and it turns out when you are a very, very famous d.c. lawyer, sometimes things go hilariously awry when you turn up in a very familiar federal courthouse except you re there as a defendant. that story of what happened in the greg craig trial is next. it s totally unbelievable. stay with us. the great josh gerstein put liberty mutual customizes your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. nice! but uh, what s up with your partner? oh! we just spend all day telling everyone how we customize car insurance because no two people are alike, so. limu gets a little confused when he sees another bird that looks exactly like him. ya. he ll figure it out. only pay for what you need. liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. [ text notification now that you have] new dr. scholl s massaging gel advanced insoles with softer, bouncier gel waves, you ll move over 10% more than before.
it relieves pressure, bloating and discomfort fast. so no one needs to know you ve got gas. gas-x. in a federal court in washington, d.c. today the trial of a very, very famous lawyer got under way. gregory craig has the distinction of being the only member of a democratic administration to be indicted in any case that is derived from robert mueller s russia investigation. he was obama s first white house counsel. he s an trial now for allegedly lying to the justice department about work he did later in private practice on work with ukraine. specifically paul manafort who s now prisoner in federal custody for roughly the next seven years. the trial for greg craig finally got under way today in federal court in d.c. and it turns out when you are a
more than $4 million. the sentencing document is 120 pages long and has copious amounts of information. if manafort receives a sentence in the recommended range, it would be the harshest handed down thus far in the russia investigation. then, there s his own case in federal court in d.c. and another prison sentence awaiting. the judge in that case ruled he lied to investigators. a violation of his cooperation deal with the feds. there s also news about paul manafort s one time business partner roger stone. today, mueller s team filed a document in stone s case, rejecting his request for a different judge, and there, in the document, the felts say for the first time, they have evidence of roger stone communicating with wikileaks, as well as guccifer 2.0. that was the alias used by
doughnuts to reporters outside his home in ft. lauderdale, he s been texting with journalists. but today we have a quieter roger stone, perhaps because he has lawyers telling him that his usual defense that no press is bad press is not going to work here. as we head to friday, i m go before judge amy berman jackson, the same judge overseeing manafort s case in federal court in d.c., and it could be she decides to enter a gag order. so far we haven t seen that, but people who he cannot talk to are witnesses in the case. that is probably because, we assume, of the details laid out in the indictment where stone had intimidated his business associate randy credico who was his intermediary to wikileaks. he said prepare to die in one of the messages included in the indictment and even threatened to take his dog from him. it s not as though roger stone
defense team there and with manafort himself in the courtroom, everybody there in person today in federal court in d.c., today the judge in his case ultimately elected to not today make a decision on the substance of these current allegations against him. which, again, are that he broke his deal by lying repeatedly to prosecutors. so manafort was there in court today. he then had to go back to jail he will be back in court a week from monday and then that will be the day that this same judge will finally conduct a hearing behind closed doors to determine whether manafort really is going to be on the hook for all of these extra years, potentially tacked on to his sentence. so that s going to be a closed-door sealed hearing a week from monday and it is going to be sealed because of the sensitivity around manafort s testimony thus far and how much of his criminal case still bears upon other still ongoing investigations and other people who have not yet