In August Paul Manafort the former Trump team campaign manager who was accused of eight federal criminal charges pleaded guilty and avoided the second federal criminal trial. He also said that he would cooperate with the "Trump-Russia ties". Inspector Muller's investigation.
Manaford’s confession includes conspiracy to launder money tax fraud failure to declare a foreign bank account failure to register as a foreign government or political party lobbying for investigations and conspiring to interfere with witnesses (interfering with justice). The amount involved includes at least $60 million in consulting income and at least $15 million in taxable amount.
Mana Ford became the fifth Trump campaign assistant to plead guilty. Because of his special status as the general manager of the campaign team he may have more high-level information on the internal operations of the campaign team. Bloomberg analysts said that the Muller team mainly wanted to examine whether the Ukrainian politicians and oligarchs related to Russia were secret channels for Russia to interfere with the US election.
As of today those who have pleaded guilty and related to the Trump campaign include former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn former Trump campaign consultant George Papadopoulos former Trump campaign team assistant and Manaford business partner Rick Gates and Sam Patten former assistant to Manaford. Many analysts pointed out that the "big tiger" Muller wants to seize is Mana Ford which will become a more critical witness in the "Trump-Russia ties" investigation.
The British "Financial Times" pointed out that the 69-year-old Mana Ford pleaded guilty to a shorter sentence and also avoided the Trang popularization of the Republican Party before the mid-term congressional election in November by avoiding another criminal trial that was highly regarded by the outside world. The negative threat. Trump has been criticizing Muller's investigation as "hunting witch action" and Manaford defense lawyers also believe that their clients are caught in political persecution.