“A federal judge has signed off on a forfeiture order for President Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort to hand over his Trump Tower condo on Fifth Avenue to the U.S. government,” Axios reports.

After a grand jury indicted former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and deputy campaign manager Rick Gates, Manafort told Gates that it was stupid to plead because he had spoken to the president’s personal attorney and they were “going to take care of us,” the Washington Post reports. Gates,

“Prosecutors suspect Paul Manafort might be trying to secretly claw back about a million dollars he agreed to hand over to the government for his financial crimes — and he could be using the same type of shell company at the core of his legal problems to fake a loan,” CNN reports. “A mysterious

President Trump said that he feels “very badly” for his former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, the Daily Beast reports. Said Trump: “I think it’s been a tough time for him.” He added: “This had nothing to do with collusion. It’s a collusion hoax. It’s a collusion witch hoax. I don’t collude with

Franklin Foer takes issue with Paul Manafort’s lenient sentence and the judge’s assertion that the convict “has lived an otherwise blameless life.” “In an otherwise blameless life, he helped the Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos bolster his image in Washington after he assassinated his primary