US Special Envoy Robert Mueller has called for up to 24 years in prison for former US President Donald Trump’s election campaign chief Paul Manafort. The special investigator in the Russia affair agreed with a Justice Department assessment that Manafort should be jailed for between 235 and 293 months and pay a fine of up to $ 24.3 million (about € 21 million), his office said yesterday submitted court documents.
Judge saw break from cooperation agreement
Previously, a federal judge had come to the conclusion that Manafort repeatedly lied to the investigators and thus violated a cooperation agreement with Mueller. Thus, Mueller is no longer bound by this agreement.
Former lobbyist Manafort pleaded guilty to a plot against a US conspiracy and witness interference. In return, the prosecutors dropped several other charges. He was threatened in the wake of this deal only a maximum penalty of ten years imprisonment.
Trump consultants and WikiLeaks in contact with Democrat mails
Mueller also announced that Trump’s longtime advisor, Roger Stone, and WikiLeaks were communicating about the Democrats‘ hacked emails. The documents stated that the information about the contact was the basis for searches.
Stone also had connections with „Guccifer 2.0“. „Guccifer 2.0“ is, according to US intelligence findings, a stigma used by Russian military intelligence. Stone has had brief contact with WikiLeaks and „Guccifer 2.0“ in the past, but emphasizes that he did not know about the hacked democratic mails in advance.
