A federal judge on Thursday asked prosecutors to flesh out their arguments in the case against a Russian company accused of funding the Kremlin’s effort to influence the 2016 presidential election.
Read moreProsecutors are prepared to dismiss 10 deadlocked charges remaining from former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s bank and tax fraud trial this August, according to a motion filed Wednesady by Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team.
Read moreA federal judge agreed Monday to free former Trump campaign aide Rick Gates from GPS monitoring and a nightly curfew.
Read moreCalling himself “a model cooperating witness,” former Trump campaign aide Rick Gates made a push Thursday to await sentencing without GPS monitoring.
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 moreA former aide of longtime Trump confidant Roger Stone told the D.C. circuit late Tuesday that no law gives the attorney general the authority to appoint a private attorney to serve as special counsel.
Read moreChallenging its prosecution by special counsel Robert Mueller, a Russian firm accused of conspiracy said Friday that Mueller must be made to identify all cases where he prosecuted or declined to take on foreign actors for election interference.
Read moreSpecial counsel Robert Mueller received a court endorsement Friday from nine constitutional law professors who want the D.C. Circuit to affirm the constitutionality of Mueller’s appointment.
Read moreProsecutors with special counsel Robert Mueller’s office urged a federal court Friday to shut down an effort by an indicted Russian firm to bring a claim of selective prosecution.
Read moreRetreating from his order earlier this week to declassify documents on the Russia probe, President Trump tweeted Friday that he now wants to sit on the information at the advice of Justice Department officials and allies.
Read morePresident Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer said Thursday he is providing “critical information” as part special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election and possible coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign.
Read morePresident Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn will be sentenced in December, a federal judge ordered.
Read morePresident Donald Trump ordered a series of documents and text messages related to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe to be declassified immediately, a decision that many conservative lawmakers on Capitol Hill have been clamoring after for months.
Read moreHaving sought repeated delays since May, prosecutors said Monday they are finally ready for a federal judge to sentence President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
Read moreThree legal scholars urged a federal judge Friday to unseal the Watergate “Road Map,” a secret report sent to Congress in 1974 containing evidence about President Richard Nixon’s misconduct.
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 moreA former aide to Trump confidant and longtime GOP operative Roger Stone asked the D.C. Circuit on Wednesday to consider whether special counsel Robert Mueller was constitutionally appointed.
Read moreFormer Trump foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos was sentenced to 14 days in prison on Friday for lying to investigators about his contacts with Russians during the 2016 election.
Read morePresident Donald Trump will not answer federal investigators’ questions, in writing or in person, about whether he tried to block the probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election, one of the president’s attorneys told The Associated Press on Thursday.
Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani said questions about obstruction of justice were a “no-go.”
Prosecutors 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.
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