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The Russia Investigations: What Will Paul Manafort Tell The Feds?

This week in the Russia investigations: Donald Trump's ex-campaign chairman avoids a second federal trial at the cost of a plea agreement. What information can he give to investigators?
Paul Manafort exits the E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse in Washington, D.C., in February. On Friday, Manafort pleaded guilty and agreed to work with special counsel Robert Mueller.

This week in the Russia investigation: Paul Manafort turns state's evidence ... what will he tell the government?

Saint Paul

After a long career as an advocate for political animals of nearly every kind across the world, Paul Manafort is now going to work for the United States government.

Donald Trump's onetime campaign chairman pleaded guilty on Friday to avoid his second federal trial in Washington, D.C., and signed a deal that obliges him to help the Justice Department.

The White House and attorneys for President Trump were sanguine, insisting that Manafort's case means nothing for them and that the wrongdoing that Manafort has admitted has no connection either to the administration today or the 2016 presidential campaign.

In point of fact, that

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