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    Paul Manafort case goes to the jury in first test of special counsel prosecution

    by Chris Megerian and Laura King, Los Angeles Times Aug 16, 2018 5 minutes

    ALEXANDRIA, Va. - The case of President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, moved to a federal jury late Wednesday after a 12-day trial that saw a numbing deluge of financial records, more than two dozen prosecution witnesses and a high-stakes gamble by the defense team to present no evidence at all.

    Although the criminal charges against Manafort focused chiefly on the tens of millions of dollars he made as a political consultant in Ukraine before he joined Trump's campaign in March 2016, evidence introduced in court indicated some of the alleged crimes occurred that summer as Manafort steered his candidate through the Republican National Convention.

    The closely watched trial is seen as a test case for special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, who brought the charges even

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