The following article by Spencer S. Hsu was posted on the Washington Post website December 7, 2017:
Attorneys for former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort acknowledged Thursday that he edited an opinion piece for a Ukraine newspaper but did not publicly address allegations by special counsel prosecutors that he drafted it with a former colleague with ties to Russian intelligence.
Manafort’s defense argued in a court filing to a federal judge in Washington that Manafort’s work on the op-ed piece for an English-language newspaper in Kiev defending himself did not violate a court gag order because it would not likely bias potential jurors in any U.S. trial.
Manafort, 68, and his longtime deputy, Rick Gates, 45, have pleaded not guilty to criminal charges filed Oct. 30, the first in the probe by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III into Russian influence in the 2016 presidential election. Continue reading “Paul Manafort says he edited Ukraine op-ed, is silent on colleague’s alleged ties to Russian intelligence”