Mueller Team to Judge: Manafort Deserves No Credit for Cooperating

Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s deputy, Andrew Weissman, told a federal judge Friday that despite former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s cooperation with the Mueller probe, Manafort should not receive leniency when he is sentenced next month because he violated the terms of his plea deal.Weismann told Judge Amy Berman Jackson at the hearing in Washington, D.C. that Manafort violated the terms of his plea agreement by lying to federal investigators, but stipulated that the sp