U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson has denied former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s motion to dismiss criminal charges against him brought by special counsel Robert Mueller in Washington.

“[T]he indictment falls squarely within that portion of the authority granted to the Special Counsel that Manafort finds unobjectionable: the order to investigate ‘any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign,'” Jackson wrote Tuesday, citing Mueller’s original appointment order by Deputy Attorney General Rod last May.