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?????????????????????????????????????????????????Thursday, August 10, 2017
FBI raided Manafort home as part of Russia probe
By Daniella Diaz and Evan Perez, CNN- Wed August 9, 2017
Washington (CNN)FBI agents raided a home of President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort last month, a source familiar with the matter told CNN.
The agents seized materials in Manafort's home as part of the ongoing
Russia investigation led by Justice Department Special Counsel Robert
Mueller, the source said.
"FBI agents executed a search warrant at one of Mr. Manafort's
residences. Mr. Manafort has consistently cooperated with law
enforcement and other serious inquiries and did so on this occasion as
well," Jason Maloni, a spokesman for Manafort, told CNN. He declined to
provide further details.
The so-called no-knock warrant, which was first reported by The Washington Post,
was served at Manafort's home in Washington's northern Virginia suburbs
on July 26, the day after Manafort met with Senate intelligence
committee investigators.
The tactic appears unusual for a case that has been under investigation
for months and for which Manafort has already turned over hundreds of
pages of documents to Senate investigators. The source told CNN the
documents seized included financial and tax records and at least some of
the information had already been provided to Senate investigators.
Since his appointment in May, Mueller has quietly gathered a team of
more than three dozen attorneys, investigators and other staff in a
nondescript office in Washington. Officials familiar with the probe
describe it as akin to a small US attorney's office, with FBI agents and
prosecutors assigned to separate groups looking into various aspects of
the investigation.
These include groups of investigators and lawyers focused separately on
Russian collusion and obstruction of justice, as well as the
investigations focused on Manafort and former national security adviser
Michael Flynn, a US official briefed on the investigation has told CNN.
So far, Trump's campaign has turned over approximately 20,000 pages to the Senate judiciary committee, which is investigating Russia's
interference in the election, while Manafort turned over approximately
400 pages and Donald Trump Jr. turned over about 250 pages.
Fusion GPS, the firm that compiled a dossier at the center of the federal Russia probe,
has not yet turned over any documents, according to the committee's
spokesperson, though a source told CNN the firm plans to provide the
committee with "thousands" of pages of documents Wednesday.
The spokesperson declined to provide details about the specific contents of the documents.
CNN's Manu Raju and Tom LoBianco contributed to this report.