any moment one or more people could be taken into custody after a federal grand jury approved its first charges in bob mueller s investigation into any links or coordination between the russian government and those tied to president trump. key figures in mueller s probe include former white house national security adviser michael flynn, who left the white house after controversy over his discussions with the russian ambassador, and later, registered as a foreign agent for his work for turkey during the campaign, which was undisclosed on his financial disclosure report. and former trump campaign strategist and chairman paul manafort, in june, manafort retroactively registered as a foreign agent for his work with a pro-russian ukrainian political party and mueller s team raided manafort s virginia home in the early morning hours last july. politico reports that mueller s prosecutors brought the realtor who helped manafort buy the
turning to the president s finances, to his business dealings, that comes on the heels of months of reporting that the mueller investigation includes the financial and business relationships of trump national security adviser mike flynn and trump campaign chair paul manafort. that storyline about manafort of course cull minminating with nee fbi raided manafort s virginia home two weeks ago reportedly targeting banking records and tax information. the president s lawyer john dowd may in fact now have heard enough to believe that this is all real now. real enough that he wrote an angry 3:48 a.m. e-mail to a wall street journal reporter this week demanding that any evidence that might have been seized from paul man afort s home during that fbi raid, any evidence seized in that raid must be suppressed. that was free legal advice, by the way. paul manafort is not john dowd s client. john dowd s client in this is the president. which you would think wouldn t give him enough time to be work