The long-awaited trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort is set to begin Tuesday. Here’s everything you need to know about the case. When and where The trial is set to being at the Eastern District Courthouse in Alexandria, Virginia on July 31. The case is being brought by the office of special counsel Robert Mueller, who is in charge of the independent investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. The special counsel says it will need three weeks to try the case. The judge in the case, T.S. Ellis, has said that he doesn’t think it will need to go longer than three weeks and would like it to wrap up in two. Paul Manafort Paul Manafort, 69, served on President Trump’s campaign from March to August 2016. He was originally hired to secure votes from delegates at the Republican National Convention but was promoted to campaign chairman after Mr. Trump fired Corey Lewandowski in June. Manafort was no stranger to politics, having also served as an adviser on the campaigns of President Ford, President Reagan, President H.W. Bush, and Bob Dole. As a lobbyist, Manafort has worked for various firms — such as Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly (BMSK) — and most recently Davis Manafort Partners (DMP) and DMP International (DMI). Manafort’s former co-defendant, Richard Gates, was Manafort’s right hand man and worked for both DMP and DMI. DMI was created in 2011 as a result of Manafort’s lobbying work in Ukraine. DMP and DMI had offices in the U.S., Ukraine and Russia. Manafort worked with a few controversial world leaders, including former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. The work that
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