Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort lied to federal investigators multiple times, breaching his plea deal, a judge ruled on Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson agreed with special counsel Robert Mueller’s assessment that Manafort, 69, violated the terms of a plea deal, willfully lying multiple times to the FBI and federal investigators. “Therefore, the Office of Special Counsel is no longer bound by its obligations under the plea agreement, including its promise to support a reduction of the offense level in the calculation of the U.S. Mueller’s team initially argued that Manafort had told “multiple discernible lies” that were ”not instance of mere memory lapses″ in court filings from December. This article has been updated with details on the plea deal.

Source: Huffington Post February 14, 2019 00:36 UTC