Paul Manafort guilty on eight of 18 counts: What to know Former Trump Campaign chairman Paul Manfort has been found guilty in eight out of 18 counts of bank and tax fraud. The jury was deadlocked on the remaining ten counts forcing the judge to call for a mistrial on those charges. Paul Manafort, a longtime political consultant who briefly led President Trump’s campaign, recieved his long-awaited fraud trial verdict on Aug. 21 — with the federal jury finding him guilty on eight counts. But the jury could not come to a decision on 10 of the counts. The trial became a highly publicized showdown between the Trump administration and Special Counsel Robert Mueller over the past few weeks. Manafort, 69, faced 18 tax evasion and bank fraud charges. He was accused of hiding a “significant percentage” of income earned from his Ukrainian work from the IRS. He was also accused of fraudulently obtaining millions more in bank loans, including while he was working on the Trump campaign. Held in Alexandria, Virginia, this was Mueller’s first trial since his appointment to oversee the Russia investigation more than a year ago. It spanned nearly three weeks before jurors began deliberations. The case didn’t specifically address any alleged collusion between Trump officials and the Russian government. Trump has repeatedly called Mueller’s probe into such allegations a “witch hunt.”
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