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  Russian oligarch's company will fight Mueller charges in U.S. court

  WASHINGTON — A company controlled by the Russian oligarch accused of helping to mastermind the social media meddling in the 2016 election is preparing to defend itself in court. Concord Management and Consulting now has two U.S. lawyers, including Eric Dubalier, a white-collar defense lawyer and former federal prosecutor in Washington, DC. He and another lawyer in his firm, Katherine Joanne Seikaly, filed notices of their representation Wednesday morning in U   Read More ...

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  Paul Manafort pleads not guilty to tax fraud, other charges

  ALEXANDRIA, Virginia -- Former Trump campaign chairman pleaded not guilty to 18 counts of tax fraud and other substantial tax charges in the Eastern District of Virginia federal court Thursday. Judge T.S. Ellis III set the trial date for July 10, and released Manafort on the same $10 million bond package for the case being tried against him in the District of Columbia   Read More ...

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  Former Trump campaign chairman pleads not guilty to charges - | WBTV Charlotte

  ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman will face trial in Virginia before he faces trial in the District of Columbia. A federal judge in Alexandria on Thursday set a July 10 trial date for Paul Manafort. A grand jury there indicted Manafort on charges that he hid from the Internal Revenue Service tens of millions of dollars he earned advising pro-Russia politicians in Ukraine   Read More ...

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  Former Trump campaign chairman pleads not guilty to charges

  ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- U.S. President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman will face trial in Virginia before he faces trial in the District of Columbia. A federal judge in Alexandria on Thursday set a July 10 trial date for Paul Manafort. A grand jury there indicted Manafort on charges that he hid from the Internal Revenue Service tens of millions of dollars he earned advising pro-Russia politicians in Ukraine   Read More ...

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  Paul Manafort pleads not guilty to conspiracy, tax and bank fraud charges

  Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort pleaded not guilty to conspiracy, tax and bank fraud charges in an Alexandria, Va., federal court Thursday afternoon. Judge T.S. Ellis set a trial date for July 10, 2018. Manafort faces a separate federal trial on September 17, 2018, on other charges also brought by special counsel Robert Mueller's office in a Washington, D.C., case   Read More ...

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  Former Trump campaign chairman pleads not guilty to charges

  ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman will face trial in Virginia before he faces trial in the District of Columbia. A federal judge in Alexandria on Thursday set a July 10 trial date for Paul Manafort. A grand jury there indicted Manafort on charges that he hid from the Internal Revenue Service tens of millions of dollars he earned advising pro-Russia politicians in Ukraine   Read More ...

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  Paul Manafort pleads not guilty to tax and fraud charges in Virginia court

  Paul Manafort last week also pleaded not guilty in a related case in Washington, D.C., where he is set to go to trial Sept. 17. Manafort lives in Virginia and was indicted there in February. During the Thursday hearing in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, a trial date was set for July 10. It is expected to last eight to 10 days   Read More ...

• Russian-Israeli citizen sentenced in money laundering plot

  WASHINGTON (AP) — Prosecutors say a dual citizen of Israel and Russia has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for his role in an international fraud scheme. A U.S. Department of Justice statement says 46-year-old Stanislav Nazarov was sentenced on Monday. He pleaded guilty on Dec. 12 in the U.S District Court for the District of Columbia to conspiracy to commit money laundering   Read More ...

• Russian-Israeli citizen sentenced in money laundering plot

  WASHINGTON – Prosecutors say a dual citizen of Israel and Russia has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for his role in an international fraud scheme. A U.S. Department of Justice statement says 46-year-old Stanislav Nazarov was sentenced on Monday. He pleaded guilty on Dec. 12 in the U.S District Court for the District of Columbia to conspiracy to commit money laundering   Read More ...

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  New Britain native Paul Manafort pleads not guilty to new charges

  WASHINGTON DC — Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort pleaded not guilty at an arraignment Wednesday morning in federal court to a re-written set of charges that had been levied against him late last week. The charges in the US District Court for the District of Columbia include allegations of money laundering, conspiracy and making false statements about his foreign lobbying   Read More ...

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  Manafort pleads not guilty in money laundering case

  Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman accused of laundering $30 million to support a lavish lifestyle, pleaded not guilty in his first court appearance since Special Counsel Robert Mueller unveiled two new indictments against him last week. Manafort, 68, entered his plea in federal court in Washington, D.C., where he was initially indicted in October with Rick Gates, his longtime business associate and deputy on the Trump campaign   Read More ...

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  Paul Manafort pleads not guilty to new charges

  Washington (CNN)Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort pleaded not guilty at an arraignment Wednesday morning in federal court to a re-written set of charges that had been levied against him late last week. The charges in the US District Court for the District of Columbia include allegations of money laundering, conspiracy and making false statements about his foreign lobbying. Prosecutors and the defense agreed on a September 17 trial start, which means the trial involving the onetime leader of Trump's campaign brought by the special counsel will be just before the November midterm elections where Democrats are already expected to do well   Read More ...

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  Trump Campaign Aide Rick Gates Pleads Guilty in Mueller Investigation

  WASHINGTON D.C. — Former Donald Trump campaign official Rick Gates pleaded guilty Friday to two criminal charges in special counsel Robert Mueller’s wide-ranging investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential campaign and related activities. Gates is now the third Trump associate known to be working with Mueller’s investigation, and his plea deal will put the spotlight on former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort   Read More ...

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  Lawyer pleads guilty to lying to Special Counsel Robert Mueller about interactions with Rick Gates

  Attorney Alex van der Zwaan pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday to lying to Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office about his past communications with former Trump campaign aide Rick Gates. Van der Zwaan, the son-in-law of Russian businessman German Khan, entered his plea in U.S. District Court in Washington D.C., according to the Associated Press. Mueller, who is investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential campaign, charged van der Zwaan with one felony count of making false statements about his work for a law firm, which the Ukraine Ministry of Justice used in 2012 to prepare a report on the trial of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, according to court records   Read More ...

• Manafort co-defendant Gates shows up in court with new lawyer

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Thomas Green, a high-powered defense lawyer at Sidley Austin in Washington, D.C., appeared for the first time in court on Wednesday alongside President Donald Trump’s former deputy campaign chairman Richard Gates. Green’s appearance at the federal courthouse comes at the same time that the other lawyers on Gates’ legal team are asking permission to stop representing him, citing “irreconcilable differences   Read More ...

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  Paul Manafort co-defendant Richard Gates shows up in court with new lawyer

  Thomas Green, a high-powered defense lawyer at Sidley Austin in Washington, D.C., appeared for the first time in court on Wednesday alongside President Donald Trump’s former deputy campaign chairman Richard Gates. Green’s appearance at the federal courthouse comes at the same time that the other lawyers on Gates’ legal team are asking permission to stop representing him, citing “irreconcilable differences.” CNN had previously reported that Green was now representing Gates, though to date he has still not entered a formal appearance as counsel on the public court docket   Read More ...

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  Manafort's co-defendant's attorneys leaving defense team in Mueller probe

  Lawyers for former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort's co-defendant, Rick Gates, have asked a federal judge in Washington, D.C., to leave the case in a shake-up in the pending fraud and money laundering prosecution by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. In a court filing Thursday, Gates attorneys Shanlon Wu of Washington and Walter Mack and Annemarie McAvoy of New York moved to withdraw as counsel for reasons they said they would file shortly under seal   Read More ...

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  Justice Department Drops Felony Charges Against 129 Trump Inauguration Defendants

  WASHINGTON ― Justice Department prosecutors in the District of Columbia have dropped felony charges against 129 protesters who were swept up in mass arrests on the day of Donald Trump’s inauguration. The move came after a jury last month found all six defendants in the first felony trial not guilty on all counts. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, which handles both federal and local cases in the nation’s capital and is part of the Justice Department, said it would focus on a “core group” of 59 defendants it thinks were most responsible for destruction   Read More ...

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  Charges dropped for 129 anti-Trump protest defendants

  The US government will submit a motion to dismiss indictments for 129 of the 188 remaining Inauguration Day defendants, leaving 59 facing felony charges that could land them behind bars for decades. "The government will be filing motions to dismiss without prejudice the indictment against the other remaining 129 defendants," William Miller, public information officer for the US Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia, said in a press statement provided to Al Jazeera by email   Read More ...

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  Two men plead guilty to assault at the Turkish Embassy

  Two men pleaded guilty to assault in a street brawl in May near the Turkish embassy in Washington during a visit by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the U.S. Justice Department said. Sinan Narin, 45, of McLean, Virginia, and Eyup Yildirim, 50, of Manchester, New Jersey each pleaded guilty to one count of assault in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia   Read More ...

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  Two men plead guilty to beating up embassy protesters after Turkish leader’s meeting with President Trump 

  Two Americans pleaded guilty to beating up protesters outside the Turkish embassy in Washington, D.C., after the country's authoritarian leader sat down with President Trump at the White House this spring, prosecutors said Thursday. Sinan Narin and Eyup Yildirim were slammed with aggravated assault charges for pummeling protesters picketing Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during his Washington visit on May 16, a Justice Department spokesman told the Daily News   Read More ...

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  USA: Jury finds defendants not guilty for Inauguration Day rioting

  Six defendants were found not guilty of charges related to the Inauguration Day protests at the US Superior Court in Washington DC on Thursday. They were cleared of all 42 charges, including rioting and destruction of property, during protests against the newly instated US President Donald Trump in January. The six defendants included a journalist and two street medics. Video ID: 20171221-058 Video on Demand: http://www.ruptly.tv Contact: cd@ruptly.tv Twitter: http://twitter.com/Ruptly Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Ruptly.   Read More ...

• UPDATE 1-Two men plead guilty to assault after brawl near Turkey's embassy in U.S.

  By Sarah N. Lynch. WASHINGTON, Dec 21 (Reuters) - Two men pleaded guilty on Thursday to felony assault in a street brawl in May near the Turkish embassy in Washington during a visit by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the U.S. Justice Department said. Sinan Narin, 45, of McLean, Virginia, and Eyup Yildirim, 50, of Manchester, New Jersey each pleaded guilty to one count of assault in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia   Read More ...

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  Two men plead guilty in case tied to brawl near Turkish embassy

  WASHINGTON - Two men pleaded guilty to felony assault charges on Thursday stemming from a violent street brawl last spring near the Turkish embassy in Washington, D.C. during a visit by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the US Justice Department said. Sinan Narin, 45, of McLean, Va., and Eyup Yildirim, 50, of Manchester, N.J. each pleaded guilty to one count of assault in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia   Read More ...

• Two men plead guilty in case tied to brawl near Turkish embassy

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two men pleaded guilty to felony assault charges on Thursday stemming from a violent street brawl last spring near the Turkish embassy in Washington, D.C. during a visit by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the U.S. Justice Department said. Sinan Narin, 45, of McLean, Va., and Eyup Yildirim, 50, of Manchester, N.J. each pleaded guilty to one count of assault in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia   Read More ...

• Two men plead guilty in case tied to brawl near Turkish embassy

  WASHINGTON, Dec 21 (Reuters) - Two men pleaded guilty to felony assault charges on Thursday stemming from a violent street brawl last spring near the Turkish embassy in Washington, D.C. during a visit by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the U.S. Justice Department said. Sinan Narin, 45, of McLean, Va., and Eyup Yildirim, 50, of Manchester, N.J. each pleaded guilty to one count of assault in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia   Read More ...

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  Journalist Charged With Rioting at Inauguration Day Protest Goes Free

  Photo Alexei Wood, a journalist who was arrested while covering a protest of Donald J. Trump’s inauguration, was found not guilty at the Superior Court of the District of Columbia on Thursday of all seven counts against him, including conspiracy to riot and several counts of destruction of property. Mr. Wood had originally faced up to 61 years in prison. His five fellow defendants — Michelle Macchio, Jennifer Armento, Christina Simmons, Oliver Harris and Brittne Lawson — were also found not guilty of all charges after a nearly four-week trial   Read More ...

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  Trump Commutes Prison Sentence for Former Iowa Agriprocessors CEO

  WASHINGTON D.C. – The former CEO of a Kosher meat-processing company in northeast Iowa has had his prison sentence commuted by President Donald Trump. Sholom Rubashkin, 57, was convicted on several bank fraud charges following an immigration raid at the Postville Agriprocessors plant in 2008. He was sentenced to 27 years in federal prison for his role in creating fake documents in order to obtain bank loans   Read More ...

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  New Russia mystery as federal judge who took Mike Flynn's guilty plea steps aside from case but court refuses to say why

  The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia judge presiding over the criminal case for President Donald Trump's former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn has been recused from handling the case, a court spokeswoman said on Thursday. According to a court filing, U.S. District Court Judge Rudolph Contreras, who presided over a Dec. 1 hearing where Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russia, will no longer handle the case   Read More ...

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  Michael Flynn pleads guilty to lying to the FBI on contacts with Russian ambassador

  WASHINGTON – Former national security adviser Michael Flynn pleaded guilty Friday to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, and court records and people familiar with the contacts indicated he was acting in consultation with senior Trump transition officials, including President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, in his dealings with the diplomat. Flynn's admission to the charge Friday in federal district court in the District of Columbia could be an ominous sign for the White House, as Flynn is cooperating in the ongoing probe of possible coordination between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin to influence the 2016 election   Read More ...

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  A timeline of Michael Flynn’s political rise, communications with Russia and his guilty plea

  President Donald Trump’s ousted national security adviser Michael Flynn pleaded guilty on Friday to lying to the FBI about his contact with the Russian Ambassador and is cooperating in full with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. The retired Army lieutenant general entered his plea in federal court in Washington, D.C., and is the fourth to be charged in Mueller’s probe. Here’s a timeline of events from Flynn’s brief tenure as Trump’s security adviser to his guilty plea: : Following success as a military intelligence officer in combat zones including Iraq and Afghanistan, the Obama administration named Flynn the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency   Read More ...

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  Flynn charged with lying about bid to stop anti-Israel UN resolution

  WASHINGTON (JTA) — Michael Flynn, US President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, has been charged with lying to the FBI, including about his efforts to stave off a UN Security Council resolution opposed by Israel. Flynn, who is expected to plead guilty when he appears in a federal court Friday morning in Washington, DC, is accused of lying twice about conversations with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in December 2016, when Trump was president-elect and Barack Obama was still in office   Read More ...

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  Michael Flynn pleads guilty to lying to the FBI

  President Trump's former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn has pleaded guilty to one count of lying to the FBI, and CBS News has confirmed U.S. law enforcement officials have long suspected Flynn did not engage the Russian ambassador without being directed to do so. Flynn made the guilty plea in federal court in Washington, D.C. on Friday, admitting to lying to the FBI as it investigated Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election   Read More ...

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  Michael Flynn Pleads Guilty to Lying to FBI

  Former U.S. National Security Adviser Michael Flynn plead guilty in a Washington, D.C., court Friday to making false statements to the FBI. (Dec. 1) Subscribe for more Breaking News Get updates and more Breaking News here The Associated Press is the essential global news network, delivering fast, unbiased news from every corner of the world to all media platforms and formats. AP’s commitment to independent, comprehensive journalism has deep roots. Founded in 1846, AP has covered all the major news events of the past 165 years, providing high-quality, informed reporting of everything from wars and elections to championship games and royal weddings   Read More ...

• Read Michael Flynn's statement about his guilty plea

  Michael Flynn, former national security advisor to President Donald Trump, arrives for his plea hearing at the Prettyman Federal Courthouse December 1, 2017 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images) Former national security adviser Michael Flynn pleaded guilty Friday to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russia's ambassador. Below is his statement on the matter: After over 33 years of military service to our country, including nearly five years in combat away from my family, and then my decision to continue to serve the United States, it has been extraordinarily painful to endure these many months of false accusations of "treason" and other outrageous acts   Read More ...

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  Former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn charged with making false statements

  WASHINGTON DC — Former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn will plead guilty Friday to “willfully and knowingly” making “false, fictitious and fraudulent statements” to the FBI about conversations with Russia’s ambassador, according to court documents. Flynn arrived at court Friday morning. The White House declined to immediately comment, though a source who advises the White House on strategy said this was expected   Read More ...

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  Michael Flynn charged: Ex-Trump adviser accused of lying to FBI about Russia

  Michael Flynn, President Trump’s former national security advisor, is expected to plead guilty on Friday to charges of making false statements to the F.B.I., according to multiple news reports. A hearing is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. before U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras in federal court in Washington, D.C. According to a court filing, Flynn is accused of making “false, fictitious and fraudulent statements” to the F   Read More ...

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  BOMBSHELL: Mike Flynn to plead guilty to lying to the FBI about contacts with Russia

  Former Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn will plead guilty on Friday to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russian government officials. The United States District Court for the District of Columbia has scheduled a plea hearing for Flynn that is set to take place at 10:30 a.m. ET. In the hearing, Flynn will plead guilty to making “materially false, fictitious, and fraudulent” statements to FBI agents this past January   Read More ...

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  Judge rules two enemies of Lance Armstrong can testify against him

  The U.S. Justice Department joined forces with former cyclist Floyd Landis in 2013 to sue Lance Armstrong for civil fraud. USA TODAY Sports. A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that Betsy Andreu and Greg LeMond, two longtime enemies of Lance Armstrong, will be permitted to testify against Armstrong at his trial scheduled to start May 7 in Washington, D.C. U   Read More ...

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  Judge rules two enemies of Lance Armstrong can testify against him

  The U.S. Justice Department joined forces with former cyclist Floyd Landis in 2013 to sue Lance Armstrong for civil fraud. USA TODAY Sports. A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that Betsy Andreu and Greg LeMond, two longtime enemies of Lance Armstrong, will be permitted to testify against Armstrong at his trial scheduled to start May 7 in Washington, D.C. U   Read More ...