What Is Paul Manafort Doing?
Trump’s former campaign manager is living dangerously by allegedly attempting to contact potential witnesses while under indictment.
When the news broke that Paul Manafort, under indictment by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, repeatedly tried to contact witnesses in the case against him despite round-the-clock electronic surveillance, many asked the same question: What was he thinking?
“As counsel, you are repeatedly advising a client to steer clear of witness tampering,” says Jacob Frenkel, a white-collar-criminal-defense attorney. “But the client has to listen. This will be the poster-child case that lawyers will use to highlight the risk of communicating with witnesses pretrial.”
Manafort, who has been on house arrest since he was indicted last fall on charges including money laundering, bank fraud, and
