Special counsel Robert Mueller miscalculated how much restitution former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort owes, but the disgraced former Trump campaign chairman hasn’t signed off on the new figure.
The nearly $700,000 accounting error was the subject of a motion filed by Mueller’s team Wednesday in a federal court in Virginia.
Instead of the $24,815,108 figure that had been used in Manafort’s sentencing earlier this month, the motion says he owes $25,497,487.
“After the Court signed the restitution order, the government identified an arithmetical or other clear error in the restitution order concerning the amount of restitution owed to Citizens Bank,” the filed motion states.
The restitution is related to Mueller’s conviction on bank fraud charges, as he lied to Citizens Bank about a New York City condo being a second home to get a mortgage and line of credit, when it was listed on rental service AirBnB.
While Mueller’s team had submitted the motion to Manafort’s legal team prior to filing, Manafort has refused to agree to the new restitution figure. He also did not sign the initial agreement to pay the original restitution amount.
“The government has conferred with defense counsel and they have no objection to the language or form of the attached proposed corrected restitution order. Nevertheless, Mr. Manafort continues to decline to sign the corrected restitution order as he did the original restitution order,” the filing said in conclusion.
The former campaign manager was sentenced to roughly seven and a half years total in federal prison for his conviction on bank and fraud charges in Virginia and his guilty plea in his Washington, D.C., conspiracy case brought forward by the Mueller investigation. Mueller was appointed special counsel to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
