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Manafort the Kingmaker and Trump Administration Appointments - Google Search: Manafort Claimed to Be Placing People in Trump Administration: Filing - NYT

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paul manafort - Google Search Manafort Claimed to Be Placing People in Trump Administration: Filing   - NYT  Manafort the Kingmaker and Trump Administration Appointments - Google Search "Paul Manafort, the convicted former chairman of Donald Trump's presidential campaign, told a business associate in January of 2017 he was using middlemen to get people appointed to the Trump administration, according to a court filing on Tuesday. US Special Counsel Robert Mueller had been given until Monday by a federal court in Washington, DC, to provide evidence of his accusations that Manafort had lied to prosecutors on five subjects. If such allegations are proven to be true, that would put Manafort in breach of a plea agreement under which he was meant to be cooperating with Mueller's probe into Russian interference in the 2016 president election, and whether Trump's campaign colluded with the foreign government. The  heavily redacted 188-page filing  includ