WASHINGTON ― Former Donald Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, while under federal indictment that could send him away to prison for years, recently ghostwrote an op-ed with a Russian with ties to the country’s intelligence services, Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team alleged on Monday. “Manafort worked on the draft with a long-time Russian colleague of Manafort’s, who is currently based in Russia and assessed to have ties to a Russian intelligence service,” Mueller’s team wrote. It compounds the problem that the proposed piece is not a dispassionate recitation of the facts,” Mueller’s team wrote. Manafort’s attorney told Mueller’s team that they would take steps to make sure the op-ed wasn’t published, according to the court filing. A spokesman for the special counsel team declined to comment on Monday on whether they are confident that the alleged company is real.

Source: Huffington Post December 04, 2017 22:52 UTC