Judge delays Manafort's first trial -- again
Source: Politico
A federal judge in Virginia has again delayed the trial scheduled for next month for former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort on charges of tax evasion, bank fraud and failing to report foreign bank accounts.
In a new order dated Monday and released Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge T.S. Ellis pushed back the scheduled start of Manafort's trial one day to July 25.
The move came at the request of prosecutors from special counsel Robert Mueller's office who said the earlier start date would conflict with a previously set hearing on another criminal case Manafort is facing in Washington.
Ellis originally set the Alexandria, Virginia trial for July 10 but recently postponed the trial by two weeks after he delayed a hearing on some key motions in the case
Read more: https://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2018/06/12/paul-manafort-virginia-trial-schedule-637802
How sad; when he gets thrown in jail for violating his bail provisions, he'll be stuck there that much longer...
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The more trials Mueller is prosecuting during the election run-up, the better for us.
With that in mind, this extension suits me fine. 
