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USA Today reports:
A federal judge set a tentative hearing for Jan. 25 to hear disputes about whether Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, breached his plea agreement by lying to special counsel Robert Mueller’s team.
But the hearing might not be needed. Defense lawyers said they need more time to evaluate five subject areas of allegations that prosecutors outlined Friday. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson said the prosecutors’ filing didn’t provide enough information yet for her to draw conclusions.
Jackson set a schedule Monday for the defense to file their disputes on Jan. 7, for the government to reply Jan. 14 and for a potential hearing on Jan. 25. The goal for both sides informally is to finish before the Feb. 8 sentencing in another Manafort case in Virginia.
MARK YOUR CALENDAR: There is a hearing scheduled for January 25, 2019, on the “findings of fact” regarding Paul Manafort and his alleged lies. The judge will rule on whether Manafort did in fact lie repeatedly to Mueller after agreeing to cooperating, violating his plea bargain.
— Marshall Cohen (@MarshallCohen) December 11, 2018
This is interesting.
Manafort’s attorneys suggest they could abandon challenging the Special Counsel’s assertion of lies depending on what the consequences are, and what more details emerge in filings to come from the Special Counsel’s Office. @kpolantz— Shimon Prokupecz (@ShimonPro) December 11, 2018
Two weeks have passed since @guardian claimed Manafort visited Assange 3 times in the Embassy. No media outlet has confirmed; no evidence has emerged; ex-diplomat says story is “fake.”
Does @guardian stand by its stories? How do they respond to these doubts? “No comment.” pic.twitter.com/taN84sRs2G
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) December 11, 2018