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Irish Times: Manafort lied to investigators on Russia, judge rules

By Irish Times.

Published Feb. 14, 2019 at 10:48 am

Paul Manafort arrives for a hearing at US District Court in Washington, D.C on July 15, 2018.

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Paul Manafort intentionally lied to investigators and a federal grand jury in the Russia investigation, a judge has ruled.

The ruling by US District Judge Amy Berman Jackson was another loss for the former Trump campaign chairman, who faces years in prison in two separate criminal cases stemming from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.