Manafort pleads guilty, will cooperate with special counsel

By ERIC TUCKER, CHAD DAY and MICHAEL BALSAMO
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort pleaded guilty Friday to two federal crimes after cutting a deal with prosecutors and agreeing to cooperate with the special counsel’s Russia probe.
The move allows him to avoid a second criminal trial and ends Manafort’s more than yearlong fight against investigators in the Russia investigation.
Manafort was convicted last month of eight financial crimes