by Jim Heath | May 23, 2019 | Headlines
Stephen Calk, a former economic adviser to President Trump’s presidential campaign, was indicted today for allegedly approving $16 million in loans to former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort in exchange for his help seeking a top post in the administration. Calk,...
by Jim Heath | Mar 15, 2019 | Headlines, Mueller Investigation
The U.S. Special Counsel’s Office today asked a court to delay sentencing for President Trump’s former deputy campaign chairman, Rick Gates, amid “ongoing investigations” stemming from the Russia investigation. In a filing with the U.S. District Court in Washington,...
by Jim Heath | Mar 13, 2019 | Headlines, Mueller Investigation
State prosecutors in New York have charged Paul Manafort with mortgage fraud and other charges – in a sudden development that emerged just minutes after a federal judge handed down a sentence that could put him in prison for over seven years. The charges were a stark...
by Jim Heath | Mar 7, 2019 | Headlines
Paul Manafort, who once served as President Trump’s campaign chairman, was sentenced to nearly four years in prison Thursday for cheating on his taxes and bank fraud — a spectacular fall for a once high-flying political consultant who told the judge he is now...
by Jim Heath | Feb 23, 2019 | Headlines, Mueller Investigation, Trump
Special counsel Robert Mueller has filed a damning 800-page sentencing memo in one of two criminal cases against Paul Manafort. The report reveals Manafort’s ‘criminal actions were bold’ and the former Trump campaign chairman ‘repeatedly and...