Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s deputy, Andrew Weissman, told a federal judge Friday that despite former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s cooperation with the Mueller probe, Manafort should not receive leniency when he is sentenced next month because he violated the terms of his plea deal. Weismann told Judge Amy Berman Jackson at the hearing in Washington, D.C. that Manafort violated the terms of his plea agreement by lying to federal investigators, but stipulated that the special counsel’s office does not plan to bring additional criminal charges against him for lying. Federal prosecutors allege that Manafort, after pleading guilty to two counts of conspiracy in Washington last September, lied about the nature of a $125,000 payment he received in 2017 and about his contacts with Russian operative Konstantin Kilimnik.
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