Both Courthouse News and The Washington Examiner report Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office has requested 70 blank subpoenas in the case against Paul Manafort.
The two-page filing doesn’t offer much in the way of details, but each subpoena orders the recipient to appear at the federal courthouse in Alexandria on July 10 at 10 a.m. to testify at Manafort’s trial on charges stemming from Mueller’s investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
Although Manafort faces no charges related to the Trump campaign, he is accused in cases filed both in Alexandria, Virginia and Washington, D.C. of hiding the work he did for and the money he made from a Russia-friendly political party in Ukraine and former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych.
In Virginia, he is also accused of concealing foreign bank accounts, falsifying his income taxes and failing to report foreign bank accounts.
In Washington, Manafort faces counts of conspiracy to launder more than $30 million, making false statements, failing to follow lobbying disclosure laws and working as an unregistered foreign agent.
Manafort is expected to appear again in federal court in Virginia Friday.
Robert Mueller files request for 70 blank subpoenas in Paul Manafort’s Virginia case (Washington Examiner)
Mueller Seeks 70 Blank Subpoenas in Manafort Case (Courthouse News)