Paul Manafort returns to court Friday, June 15 to face arraignment on the latest charges Special Counsel Robert Mueller brought against him in a third superseding indictment filed last Friday.
Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who is presiding over Manafort’s criminal case in federal court in Washington, D.C., set the arraignment to coincide with a previously scheduled hearing over whether Manafort’s bail conditions should be revoked in light of the witness tampering accusations.
Manafort is currently under house arrest and required to wear GPS monitoring devices.
The indictment last week included new counts against Manafort and Manafort aide Konstantin Kilimnik, a political operative with alleged ties to Russian intelligence, for allegedly tampering with witnesses regarding their lobbying for Ukraine.
The additional charges could increase pressure on Manafort to cut a deal and cooperate with Mueller’s probe, legal experts said.
Ex-Trump campaign aide Manafort to be arraigned Friday on new charges (Reuters)