FBI conducted predawn raid of former Trump campaign chairman Manafort’s home - The Washington Post
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Description: The search warrant, carried out July 26, shows newly aggressive techniques by the special counsel.
Keywords: paul manafort, robert s. mueller iii, donald trump jr, fbi, reginald brown, josh stueve, the senate intelligence committee, russian, the white house

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By Carol D. Leonnig, Tom Hamburger and Rosalind S. Helderman By Carol D. Leonnig, Tom Hamburger and Rosalind S. Helderman August 9 at 10:38 AM Follow @CarolLeonnig Follow @thamburger Follow @PostRoz

FBI agents raided the Alexandria home of President Trump’s former campaign chairman late last month, using a search warrant to seize documents and other materials, according to people familiar with the special counsel investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

Federal agents appeared at Paul Manafort’s home without advance warning in the predawn hours of July 26, the day after he met voluntarily with the staff for the Senate Intelligence Committee.

The search warrant was wide-ranging and FBI agents working with special counsel Robert S. Mueller III departed the home with various records. Jason Maloni, a spokesman for Manafort, confirmed that agents executed a warrant at one of the political consultant’s homes and that Manafort cooperated with the search.

Manafort has been voluntarily producing documents to congressional committees investigating Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election. The search warrant indicates investigators may have argued to a federal judge they had reason to believe Manafort could not be trusted to turn over all records in response to a grand jury subpoena.

It could also have been intended to send a message to President Trump’s former campaign chairman that he should not expect gentle treatment or legal courtesies from Mueller’s team.

(Bastien Inzaurralde/The Washington Post)

[Why is the FBI so interested in Paul Manafort that they were literally at his door before dawn?]

The documents included materials Manafort had already provided to Congress, said people familiar with the search.

“If the FBI wanted the documents, they could just ask [Manafort] and he would have turned them over,” said one adviser close to the White House.

Josh Stueve, spokesman for Mueller, declined to comment, as did Reginald Brown, an attorney for Manafort.

“Mr. Manafort has consistently cooperated with law enforcement and other serious inquiries and did so on this occasion as well,” said Maloni, the spokesman for Manafort.

Mueller has increased legal pressure on Manafort, consolidating under his authority a series of unrelated investigations into various aspects of Manafort’s professional and personal life.

Manafort’s allies fear that Mueller hopes to build a case against Manafort unrelated to the 2016 campaign, in hopes that the former campaign operative would provide information against others in Trump’s inner circle in exchange for lessening his own legal exposure.

Paul Manafort, seen in July 2016 when he was chairman of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, is a focus of a special counsel investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. (Matt Rourke/AP)

The significance of the records seized from Manafort’s apartment is unclear.

Manafort has provided documents to both the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Senate and House intelligence committees. The documents are said to include notes Manafort took while attending a meeting with Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer at Trump Tower in June 2016.

[Manafort turns over notes from Trump Tower meeting with Russian lawyer]

Emails show Trump Jr. took the meeting and invited Manafort after he was promised the lawyer would deliver damaging information about Hillary Clinton as part of a Russian government effort to assist his father’s campaign.

Philip Rucker and Matt Zapotosky contributed to this report.

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