A Turkish-American businessman pleaded guilty Monday to secretly funneling money from the government of Azerbaijan for a 2013 all-expense-paid trip attended by 10 members of Congress and dozens of their staff.
Read moreThe constitutionality of several Kentucky campaign finance laws was debated Thursday morning before a Sixth Circuit panel, with the state’s attorney general arguing they are necessary to maintain citizens’ confidence in the government.
Read morePaul Manafort would like to trade in the prison-issued jumpsuit he has sported since being imprisoned this June for a formal business suit when he appears in court for a hearing scheduled for Friday at a federal court in Virginia.
Read moreThe federal judge who presided over former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s fraud trial in Virginia wants to know when – or if – the special counsel’s team will pursue a series of counts the jury deadlocked on last summer.
Read moreTwo weeks after pleading guilty in state court to having bribed a judge, a former Democratic lobbyist returned to court Tuesday to plead guilty to a federal charge involving New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.
Read moreA libertarian law firm claims in court that an executive order implemented by Missouri Governor Mike Parson and the state ethics commission banning all gifts, including written materials, to certain government officials violates its constitutional rights.
Read moreAs reports of a plea deal swirl, the government pushed ahead Wednesday with preparations for the second trial of President Donald Trump’s convicted former campaign manager Paul Manafort.
Read moreFor the second trial of President Donald Trump’s former campaign chair, prosecutors pushed Monday to rely on the testimony of a lawyer who handled Paul Manafort’s foreign agent registration filings.
Read moreFending off claims that it tried to bankrupt the National Rifle Association, attorneys for the state of New York will press a federal judge Monday to dismiss the gun lobby’s free-speech suit.
Read moreProsecutors said Thursday they want to be able to question ex-Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort about his July conviction for financial crimes if he takes the witness stand this month in his second criminal trial.
Read morePaul Manafort’s bid to divert his trial from Washington circled the drain Wednesday as a federal judge skewered the basis that the ex-Trump campaign manager gave for seeking a change of venue.
Read moreW. Samuel Patten, an associate of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, pleaded guilty Friday tofailing to register as a foreign agent for a pro-Russian Ukrainian political party.
Read moreSamuel Patten, an associate of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, was charged Friday with failing to register as a foreign agent for a pro-Russian Ukrainian political party.
Read moreDemanding a new venue for his second conspiracy trial, convicted lobbyist Paul Manafort argued Wednesday that the decks are stacked against him in the nation’s capital.
Read moreDecades before Paul Manafort’s lobbying work for a pro-Russia political party led to a U.S. criminal conviction, his lobbying on behalf of the Saudi Arabian government sparked an investigation as well.
Read moreAlready convicted of financial felonies, former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort is unsure whether to mount a defense at his second trial next month.
Read moreIn the same month that Paul Manafort was seeking a mortgage on his Manhattan apartment, the condominium’s Airbnb rental listing was deactivated, a witness from the travel website confirmed Thursday on the witness stand.
Read moreIn a bid to unravel hours of elaborate testimony about Paul Manafort’s financial records Wednesday afternoon, defense attorneys zeroed in on one detail they painted as particularly curious – the former Trump campaign chair’s signature on various tax and loan forms.
Read moreRecalling his chat with Paul Manafort after they both were called in by the FBI, Rick Gates testified Wednesday that the former Trump campaign chair claimed to have told the investigator the truth.
Read morePresident Donald Trump’s name has been mostly absent from the trial of Paul Manafort, his former campaign chairman, but that changed on Tuesday.
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