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Washington Post: How Paul Manafort’s plea brings the special counsel probe closer to its endgame

Published Sept. 16, 2018 at 11:03 am

A view of court before the jury deliberates in the trial of former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort at the US District Court August 16 in Alexandria, Virginia.

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First came George Papadopoulos, the former Trump campaign adviser who was arrested by the FBI when he stepped off a plane at Dulles International Airport and soon agreed to help the special counsel’s office as part of a plea agreement.