{"id":10781,"date":"2018-08-14T18:32:08","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T18:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/worlds\/manafort-lawyers-rest-fraud-case-with-out-calling-witnesses\/08"},"modified":"2018-08-14T18:32:08","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T18:32:08","slug":"manafort-lawyers-rest-fraud-case-with-out-calling-witnesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/?p=10781","title":{"rendered":"Manafort attorneys rest fraud case with out calling witnesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"b-article-ext\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Manafort in court in February\" src=\"http:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/manafort-group-attacks-secret-life-of-famous-person-witness-rick-gates-5b6a1734539e5.jpg\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\"\/> Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Paul Manafort coming into court docket back in February (REPORT) <\/p>\n<p>Ex-Trump marketing campaign chairman Paul Manafort&#8217;s legal professionals have rested their case with out calling any witnesses in his bank and tax fraud trial.<\/p>\n<p>A US pass judgement on additionally pushed aside Mr Manafort&#8217;s movement to throw out all 18 fees filed towards him by Unique Suggest Robert Mueller. <\/p>\n<p>That Is the primary prison trial to come from the dep. of Justice-led inquiry into alleged Russian meddling.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Manafort, who has pleaded now not guilty, also declined to testify. <\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors, who rested their case on Monday, say the 69-yr-vintage dodged taxes on hundreds of thousands of dollars he made lobbying for Ukrainian politicians. <\/p>\n<div id=\"bbccom_mpu_1_2_3\" aria-hidden=\"true\">  <\/div>\n<p>Manafort lawyer attacks deputy&#8217;s &#8216;lies&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The surprise move from the defence crew got here on the eleventh day of the trial and clears the way in which for last arguments to start out on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>If found in charge, Mr Manafort may spend the remainder of his lifestyles in jail.<\/p>\n<h2>What&#8217;s the historical past? <\/h2>\n<p>Mr Manafort led US President Donald Trump&#8217;s 2016 presidential campaign for a number of months in 2016, including in August while Mr Trump gained the Republican party&#8217;s nomination.<\/p>\n<p>He was once charged in October 2017 as part of Different Counsel Mueller&#8217;s investigation into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. <\/p>\n<p>But most of his alleged crimes pre-date his time operating for Mr Trump and instead centre on his consultancy paintings for Russian-sponsored Ukrainian politicians.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><iframe loading=\"lazy\" scrolling=\"no\" rel=\"nofollow\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/av\/embed\/p05lhhpk\/45187523\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Paul Manafort coming into court docket back in February (REPORT) Ex-Trump marketing campaign chairman Paul Manafort&#8217;s legal professionals have rested their case with out calling any witnesses in his bank and tax fraud trial. A US pass judgement on additionally pushed aside Mr Manafort&#8217;s movement to throw out all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10794,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[264,1908,266,2014,631],"class_list":["post-10781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-worlds","tag-donald-trump","tag-paul-manafort","tag-russia","tag-trump-russia-investigation","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}