President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, may have lied to prosecutors to increase his chances at a pardon for crimes he committed, according to a court transcript.
Manafort “lied about an extremely sensitive matter,” Andrew Weissmann, a prosecutor in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office, told a judge at a Feb. 4 hearing. Manafort’s motivation may have been to “augment his chances for a pardon,” Weissmann said, according to a section of the transcript that’s heavily redacted. The document was unsealed Feb. 7.
Manafort exits federal court in Washington on April 19, 2018.
Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg
Manafort’s hopes for a pardon was one of several revelations in the 142-page transcript of ...