Although Paul Manafort is arguably the biggest-named fish nabbed in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s year-long investigation into whether Russian officials colluded with the Trump campaign to influence the 2016 presidential election, prosecutors in Manafort’s trial, which starts Tuesday, have ordered witnesses not to mention the president by name.
Mueller’s team is bringing the case against Manafort, but attorneys want to focus the jury on Manafort’s reported excesses, his alleged ties to Ukrainian government officials, and the crimes for which Manafort was really indicted — tax evasion and bank fraud — and not his campaign activities, ABC News reports.
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