The defense filing came after a weekend sentencing memo by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s team that recommended no specific sentence for Manafort but called him a bold, “hardened” criminal who “repeatedly and brazenly violated the law.”
, is readying for Mueller to formally conclude his work. Mueller’s office has teamed with U.S. attorney’s offices for the District of Columbia and elsewhere to take over pending legal matters as required.
Those contacts, prosecutors said in court, go “very much to the heart of what the special counsel’s office is investigating.”
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