Manafort guilty of 8 charges in fraud trial

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Paul Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, was convicted Tuesday in his financial fraud trial, bringing a dramatic end to a politically charged case that riveted the capital. The verdict was a victory for the special counsel, Robert Mueller, whose prosecutors built a case that Manafort hid millions of dollars in foreign accounts to evade taxes and lied to banksto obtain $20 million in loans. Manafort was convicted of five counts of tax fraud, two cou