Judge tonight is calling the Trump Administration reunification efforts unacceptable. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york, im chris hayes. At the close of the first week of Paul Manaforts trial, things do not look good for the former Campaign Chairman of the trump campaign. And today in particular, the testimony about manaforts alleged tax evasion and bank fraud took on a Very Human Dimension when his accountant admitted under oath on the stand that she had in fact knowingly falsified Tax Documents in order to save Manafort Hundreds Of Thousands of dollars in taxes. Manaforts accountant, Cindy La Porta testifying i knew it was wrong, i could have refused but that would expose the Accounting Firm to the risk of litigation or i could have called longtime clients liars. I very much regret it. This is the first of two trials of Paul Manafort being brought by special counsel robert
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A look at breaking news, politics and reports from around the world. Website. She knows of no russia collusion or any other illegal activity on my part in connection with the president ial election or otherwise. Reporter muellers team has been looking for possible contacts between roger stone and Julian Assange during the 2016 president ial campaign. All as part of moscows effort to meddle in the election. Assange i actually have communicated with assange. I believe the next dump will pertain to the clinton foundation, but theres no telling what the October Surprise may be. Reporter but later walked it back. Whats the proof . There is no proof. Reporter but the circle continues to tighten around stone as mueller has subpoenaed Randy Credico to testify next
going to happen. Randy credico says he intends to appear before the grand jury in the fall. Were also following explosive allegations in a new book by former white house aid and Tv Personality amarosa newman. Boris sanchez has detail
reason and good occasion to reup his longstanding relationship with that kremlin-connected oligarch, with oleg deripaska. one of deripaska s close aides told time magazine last year when manafort became trump s campaign chair, quote, he owed us a lot of money and he was offering ways to pay it back. we know from the mueller investigation that for some reason trump campaign chair paul manafort offered this russian-connected oligarch, oleg deripaska, he offered him private briefings on the trump campaign during the election. up to and including the still unexplained plot line from mueller s investigation. in which manafort is known to have shipped deripaska a whole bunch of internal trump campaign polling data, nonpublic, proprietary information on the campaign s plans and strategy, particularly in key states in the industrial midwest that trump would go on to unexpectedly flip on his way to
case, the guy who worked on this scheme, for which manafort is going to prison and for which the law firm he used to work with had to enter into an agreement. that lead partner himself isn t covered by the nonprosecution agreement, because he left the firm last year, and he s now out there a his own. he would be a very unusual fish tore caught in this net of scandal surrounding this president and this administration and this president s campaign, because that lawyer who s now out on his own on this, his name is gregory craig. he is a democrat, he was the first white house counsel under president obama during president obama s first year in office in 2009. after mueller referred these cases against the pr firm po for potential prosecution, the new york times reports today that the case involving the lawyer, gregory craig, it got transferred in january from
his d.c. case issues next week. now here s the transcript. i cannot do this as well as rachel but go with me on this, quote, your honor there is one other issue we d like to raise, manafort s lawyer told the judge. it has to do with whether or not you can order this sentence to be concurrently served with at which point the judge interrupts him to say quote, i can t but she can. i don t believe i can if you find in the law that i m incorrect, you can bring that to my attention. the judge then adds i think it is entirely up to her whether any sentence she imposes is to run concurrent to this sentence. it s up to her. anything else, mr. downing? to which manafort s lawyer replied, no your honor. which is a more diplomatic way of saying of course not. i mean, it takes a special level of rich guy privilege to think that you could ask the judge, who just cut you a massive break, to make sure that the next judge makes that break