Judge Denies Manafort Request To Suppress Storage Unit Evidence
Source: Talking Points Memo
By Tierney Sneed | June 21, 2018 3:17 pm
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s request for the suppression of evidence obtained in a search of his storage unit in Virginia last year was denied by a federal judge in Washington, D.C. Thursday.
Manafort had tried to challenge the search on the grounds that the employee that allowed an FBI investigator into the storage unit in May 2017 was no longer working for Manafort’s international consulting firm that did the Ukraine lobbying work that is central to the case. The agent entered the unit, having been let in by the employee, on May 26, and observed the types of containers in the unit and their labels. The government then successfully sought a search warrant the next day, and seized various materials in the unit.
U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson rejected Manafort’s argument that the May 26 search was illegal without a warrant.
Jackson pointed to the fact that employees name was listed on the lease of the storage, that Manafort had given him a key to it, and that the employee gave the investigator written consent to access the unit.
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