Mueller's targets share a problem: They lie
WASHINGTON — After lying to the Internal Revenue Service to avoid paying taxes and lying to banks to obtain fraudulent mortgages, Paul Manafort was convicted last August — and then pledged to tell the truth as part of a plea deal to avert a second trial.
But prosecutors say Manafort, President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, lied about that too — and they told a federal judge Friday that they may file new charges against him. A day earlier, Trump's longtime lawyer, Michael Cohen, pleaded guilty to lying to Congress about seeking a Moscow real estate deal.
The back-to-back court hearings showed how, one after another, Trump's closest former aides and associates have told brazen, audacious and criminal lies in the wide-ranging investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller.
"It's like an organized crime consortium where everyone is lying and obfuscating, except it's an investigation of the president of the United States and his campaign," said Harry Litman, a University of California law professor and former federal prosecutor. "It's such a hall of mirrors."
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