Paul Manafort Convicted at Fraud Trial in Victory for Mueller
- Former Trump campaign chairman faces 8 to 10 years on tax rap
- Trump calls conviction a ‘disgrace’ unrelated to Russia probe
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A federal jury convicted Paul Manafort, U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, of tax and bank fraud, ending a tense legal drama and handing a crucial victory to Special Counsel Robert Mueller even as Trump and his allies questioned the legitimacy of his work.
Manafort was found guilty Tuesday of five counts of filing false tax returns, two counts of bank fraud and one count of failing to file a foreign bank account report, or FBAR. The judge declared a mistrial on 10 other counts after jurors couldn’t reach a verdict on them.