A federal judge Tuesday said prosecutors working for special counsel Robert S. Mueller III must offer more details about the lies they claim former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has told them, even as defense attorneys said they might not contest that Manafort broke his plea deal. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson told prosecutors on Tuesday that the government’s filing did not provide enough information for her to determine that Manafort has breached the plea deal that requires him to fully cooperate with prosecutors. Defense attorney Richard W. Westling said a breach might not impact prosecutors’ sentencing recommendation, in which case Manafort might not challenge the assertion he had broke the deal. Konstantin Kilimnik, who worked for Manafort starting in 2005 and met with him in the United States twice while Manafort was working for Trump, has been charged with working with Manafort to obstruct Mueller’s investigation. [Mueller says Manafort told ‘discernible lies,’ including about contacts with an employee alleged to have Russian intelligence ties]Prosecutors said Manafort also lied about the circumstances of a $125,000 wire transfer in 2017.

Source: Washington Post December 11, 2018 21:40 UTC