Telling the truth. He has no Shadow Hanging over him. The uncertainty is gone. He has stepped up to the line and he has admitted what he did wrong, but he is now liberated to tell the truth. Everything about donald trump that he knows. From this point on youre going to see liberated Michael Cohen speaking truth to power. And we will hear a lot more from cohens lawyer who you just saw there, he is going to be joining morning joe later this morning. After four days of deliberations the jury in the fraud trial of Paul Manafort found President Trumps former Campaign Chairman guilty on eight of the counts against him. The jury has unable to reach a unanimous verdict on the other ten counts manafort faced. His trial marked a critical first stage for Robert Muellers investigation. Pete williams has more. Reporter the jury found Paul Manafort guilty of intentionally dodging taxes on millions of dollars that he earned as a
political consultant for the former president of ukraine well before man
political consultant for the former president of ukraine well before manafort served briefly as president trump s campaign chairman. prosecutors say he stashed the money in overseas banks and used it to indulge his expensive tastes in clothes, antiques and cars, by wiring money directly from those accounts to pay his bills, bypassing tax collectors from the irs. from 2010 through 2014 prosecutors said manafort earned more than $30 million but reported less than half of it as income. when the ukrainian money dried up prosecutors said manafort lied in applying for more than $20 million in loans from three banks to maintain his spending habits. the jury convicted of him in two of those bank fraud counts. in all manafort faced 18 criminal counts, the jury convicted him on eight of them but could not agree on the other ten. of those the judge declared a mistrial leaving the prosecutors free to charge them with him all over again. the prosecutors will be happy
hung jury on all counts, however, he would like to thank judge ellis for granting him a fair trial, thank the jury for their very long and hard fought deliberations. he is evaluating all of his options at this point. now, manafort faces the possibility of seven to nine years in prison. prosecutors have until next wednesday to decide what they will do about the ten mistrial charges. manafort also faces another trial on related charges next month in washington, d.c. special counsel robert mueller has asked to postpone the sentencing hearing for president trump s former national security adviser michael flynn. the joint filing yesterday by mueller s team and flynn s defense both parties asked for the sentencing timeline to be pushed back to september 17th. the court had asked for an update by this friday. the special counsel s office writing, quote, due to the status of the investigation the special counsel s office does not believe that this matter is ready to be scheduled for a sent
telling the truth. he has no shadow hanging over him. the uncertainty is gone. he has stepped up to the line and he has admitted what he did wrong, but he is now liberated to tell the truth. everything about donald trump that he knows. from this point on you re going to see liberated michael cohen speaking truth to power. and we will hear a lot more from cohen s lawyer who you just saw there, he is going to be joining morning joe later this morning. after four days of deliberations the jury in the fraud trial of paul manafort found president trump s former campaign chairman guilty on eight of the counts against him. the jury has unable to reach a unanimous verdict on the other ten counts manafort faced. his trial marked a critical first stage for robert mueller s investigation. pete williams has more. reporter: the jury found paul manafort guilty of intentionally dodging taxes on millions of dollars that he earned as a
that the eight counts of conviction were spread out among the different tranches of things that he was accused of so the prosecution will be able to argue at sentencing that the judge should consider everything. reporter: the conviction is a boost for robert mueller. manafort was the first person he charged presumably to force his cooperation in the meddling investigation. manafort s lawyer spoke only briefly, thanking the judge and jury for what they said was a fair trial. mr. manafort is disappointed of not getting acquit als all the way through or a complete hung jury on all counts. he is evaluating all of his options at this point. reporter: the judge hasn t set a sentencing date for paul manafort but he could face up to ten years in prison and next month he goes on trial all over again, this time in federal court in washington where he s charged with failing to register as a lobbyist for ukraine, witness tampering and financial fraud. frances. thanks to pete williams. on