Paul Manafort, who received 47 months in prison, is one of 7 people convicted to date in the special counsel probe.
Saul Loeb / AFP - Getty Images fileGet breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.President Donald Trump has called it"a witch hunt," but special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation has already resulted in seven guilty pleas and one conviction at trial, with a cast of defendants that include Trump's former campaign chairman, ex-national security adviser and onetime personal lawyer.
In all, 34 people and three companies have been criminally charged as a result of the probe. Mueller was named special counsel in May 2017 by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, and directed to investigate"any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump" and"any matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation.
Paul Manafort, Donald Trump's former campaign chief, arrives for a hearing at U.S. District Court in Washington on June 15, 2018.on five counts of tax fraud, one count of failure to file a report of foreign bank and financial accounts and two counts of bank fraud. Prosecutors said he'd hidden millions of dollars overseas. Prosecutors had recommended he get up to 24 years, but he was s
in that case on Thursday. He pleaded guilty in a second case brought by the Mueller team in September, and is scheduled to be sentenced for those crimes on Wednesday.Brendan Smialowski / AFP - Getty Images fileand lying to Mueller's investigators about his business dealings with Manafort. Gates, who also worked on Trump's inaugural committee, has been cooperating with Mueller's investigation and testified against Manafort at his trial in Alexandria, Va.
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