globe in the past year, it led prosecutors to argue he was a flight risk and the judge to order house arrest. and now while manafort and gates have both surfarendered their passports a secret side of donald trump s former campaign chairman. tales of fathree passports. what special counsel robert mueller calls a history of deceptive and misleading conduct on the part of paul manafort and rick gates. two are under house arrest after a federal court judge agreed with the government that the two are flight risks. manafort currently has three u.s. passports, each of them under a different number. this alone, however, is not illegal. the prosecutor said he has submitted ten passport applications in roughly the last ten years. this year, manafort has travelled to mexico, ecuador and china with a phone and e-mail account registered under a fake name.
legal documents filed yesterday show new details about paul manafort indicted as part of bob mueller s investigation. federal prosecutors now arguing that manafort presents a serious flight risk noting that he currently has three u.s. passports with different passport numbers and then the last ten years, he s submitted ten passport applications on ten different occasions. all of this part of what prosecutors call his history of deceptive and misleading conduct. something the trump team has purported to know nothing about when they hired him to chair their campaign. charlie, this idea that paul manafort is a bad guy, i think there s an op ed in the washington post with this headline. i worked for paul manafort. he always lacked a moral compass. that was widely known in washington. this idea again that the question i put to michael earlier, i mean, that their idiocy and imcompetence is now a
president trump s long-time aide and current communications director, hope hicks, for later this month. and representatives from facebook, twitter and google are back on the hill today testifying before the senate intelligence committee in the ongoing investigation into russian interference in last year s election. i just mentioned these new court filings in the federal case against former trump campaign chairman paul manafort and his long-time business partner, rick gates. according to those filings, manafort currently has three u.s. passports, all with different identification numbers. filings also indicate that manafort has submitted ten passport applications over the last decade. he also traveled to mexico, china and ecuador where a phone and e-mail under a different name. manafort and gates have pled not guilty and are on house arrest, but are scheduled to appear in court tomorrow. i m joined now by nbc s ken dilanian. ken, you also have some
the majority of these requests for documents over the past six months have been related to the widening controversy over clinton s e-mail usage. now kerry has a name janice jacobs to spear all of this. jacob will serve as kerry s transparency coordinator, charged with the freedom of information act and congressional more efficiently. she is a 49-year diplomat with experience leading in consular affairs, at the center of a major effort. she was charged with clearing up a backlog of millions of passport applications. she has a lot of experience dealing with the red time we re talking about work the government agencies to play with the e-mails and kerry wants her to improve the state department systems. to implement the review of the inspector general. it is not just about the clinton
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