Judge Amy Berman Jackson spoke directly to Paul Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, about foreign lobbying, saying that he was lying directly to Americans and Congress.
Manafort was watching Jackson with no smile, almost sheepishly.
She then moved on to describing the witness tampering offense against Manafort.
Jackson said Manafort “immediately began reaching out to witnesses” involved in Hapsburg group to “remind them” all the work in Europe he did.
“He isn’t being straight with me now” about it, she said.
Jackson continued: “He did not plead guilty to contacting witnesses. He pled guilty to conspiring” with his Russian associate Konstantin Kilimnik to contact the witnesses.
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