Mueller's "No knock" raid yielded key evidence against Manafort
https://www.yahoo.com/news/manafort-charges-grew-records-seized-no-knock-raid-205539175.html
The FBIs pre-dawn search of Paul Manaforts northern Virginia home in July yielded important new evidence crucial to the indictment of Donald Trumps campaign chairman and one of his close associates, according to the indictments unsealed yesterday by special counsel Robert Mueller.
The no-knock raid by agents who picked the lock on Manaforts front door turned up records showing the longtime political operative had been directly involved in a secret lobbying campaign on behalf of a Ukrainian political party closely aligned with Vladimir Putins Russian government, according to the court papers. Manafort, who ran Trumps campaign for several crucial months last year, has been charged, along with his longtime business partner Richard Gates, with running a scheme to conceal and avoid paying taxes on millions of dollars in fees they collected for their work.