Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort is reportedly in negotiations with special counsel Robert Mueller’s team to get a plea deal.
Sources familiar with the negotiations told ABC Wednesday that Manafort and Mueller’s team have been discussing the terms of a potential plea deal for weeks. In exchange for a plea agreement, Mueller’s team is seeking information from Manafort about the president’s 2016 presidential campaign. The former Trump campaign chairman has yet to accept those terms and his team is pressing Mueller’s lawyers for a plea arrangement that does not include cooperation.
Manafort was found guilty in late August of eight of the 18 charges Mueller has brought against him. The former Trump campaign chairman was found guilty of five counts of tax fraud, one count of failure to file reports of foreign bank and financial accounts, and other charges.
Manafort is scheduled to appear in federal court later this month to face additional charges.
Manafort joined the president’s team in March 2016 and became chairman that May. Manafort left the campaign that September.
