Special counsel Robert Mueller is considering retrying Paul Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign manager, on the 10 charges that resulted in a hung jury in Virginia in last August.
Federal prosecutors are also still weighing whether to file new charges based on what they said earlier this week is a breach of Manafort’s plea agreement, reached in September.
Mueller’s team on Friday did not reveal the details of what exactly Manafort did to breach the plea agreement, but they will in a court filing Dec. 7.
Lawyers for Manafort — who did not appear in federal court Friday morning — will then have until Dec. 12 to respond to the details of the alleged plea agreement breach.
Federal District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson, set a tentative March 5 date for Manafort’s sentencing.
Manafort, 69, was convicted of eight counts of bank and tax fraud in federal court in Virginia in August. His trial was the first stemming from Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
Just before a second Manafort trial in federal court in Washington, D.C., was set to begin in September, Manafort accepted a plea agreement with federal prosecutors and pleaded guilty to two federal crimes. As part of the deal, Manafort agreed to “fully, truthfully, completely, and forthrightly” answer questions of interest to the special counsel.
But in new court filings this week, Mueller’s team said Manafort breached the terms of his plea deal by lying to the FBI and special counsel’s office on “a variety of subject matters.”
