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Manafort's ex-son-in-law in plea deal with feds
Jeffrey Yohai, an ex-son-in-law of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, secretly entered a guilty plea earlier this year to criminal charges of fraud in obtaining real estate loans, a source familiar with the matter told POLITICO on Thursday.
Manafort, who is facing a pair of criminal cases brought by special counsel Robert Mueller, invested with Yohai in real estate deals in New York and California.
Yohai’s plea deal with federal prosecutors based in Los Angeles requires cooperation with ongoing federal investigations such as Mueller’s, but there is no clear indication yet of the special prosecutor’s interest in his testimony, the source said. It was not immediately clear why the plea was taken in a closed courtroom, but that process is routine in some courts.
“I can only confirm that he has reached a plea agreement,” an attorney for Yohai, James Hinds, told BuzzFeed.
Manafort, who is facing a pair of criminal cases brought by special counsel Robert Mueller, invested with Yohai in real estate deals in New York and California.
Yohai’s plea deal with federal prosecutors based in Los Angeles requires cooperation with ongoing federal investigations such as Mueller’s, but there is no clear indication yet of the special prosecutor’s interest in his testimony, the source said. It was not immediately clear why the plea was taken in a closed courtroom, but that process is routine in some courts.
“I can only confirm that he has reached a plea agreement,” an attorney for Yohai, James Hinds, told BuzzFeed.
[link:https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/17/manafort-ex-son-in-law-plea-deal-reports-597377|