“Didn’t know Manafort was the head of the Mob. Very unfair!”Rudolph W. Giuliani, who serves as the president’s personal lawyer, said that the judge had gone too far. The situation is particularly fraught for Mr. Trump because he is under investigation by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, for one of the same offenses for which prosecutors have accused Mr. Manafort: obstruction of justice. The judge went out of her way to dismiss the suggestion that Mr. Manafort was a victim of anything but his own actions. “It is not about the conduct of the special counsel.

Source: New York Times June 15, 2018 15:48 UTC