Mueller: Manafort worked with alleged Russian agent even after criminal charges

Former Trump campaign chief started communicating with Konstantin Kilimnik on plan for future of Ukraine in 2016

Paul Manafort and an alleged Russian intelligence operative began hatching a plan for the future of Ukraine during the 2016 presidential election campaign and continued even after Manafort was criminally charged, prosecutors indicated on Tuesday.

The office of Robert Mueller, the special counsel, said in a new court filing that Manafort and Konstantin Kilimnik communicated between August 2016 and March 2018 about a topic that Mueller’s team blacked out from public view.

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