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| ('wired.com/story/bob-muellers-investigation-is-largerand-further-alongthan-you-think/', 14) | Business dealings and money laundering related to Trump campaign staff , >>>including former campaign chairman Paul Manafort<<< and former campaign aide Rick Gates , are a major target of the inquiry .                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |
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| ('wired.com/story/david-ignatius-quantum-spy-high-tech-espionage/', 56)                      | We 're now obsessing with that in the Mueller investigation of Trump >>>and Trump 's campaign<<< .                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
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| ('wired.com/story/delete-onavo-facebook-vpn-app-security-roundup/', 3)                       | Trump 's former lawyer Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to two felonies – implicating the president in both crimes in court – and then Trump 's >>>former campaign chairman Paul Manafort<<< was found guilty of eight criminal charges .                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
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| ('wired.com/story/everything-jeff-sessions-did-not-recall-under-oath/', 24)                  | Whether Trump 's surrogates and intermediaries for the Russian government had a continuing exchange of information during the campaign ( >>>they did<<< ! )                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
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| ('wired.com/story/inside-the-mueller-indictment-a-russian-novel-of-intrigue/', 8)            | His campaign manager , Corey Lewandowski , spent the morning working the Sunday shows , downplaying concerns about the Trump campaign 's turmoil , dismissing rumors of infighting with his >>>rival Paul Manafort<<< ( their relationship was " fantastic , " he told Fox News ' Chris Wallace ) , and expressing confidence about how the small campaign staff was all they needed to defeat Hillary Clinton ( " This is media hype , " he said ) .                                                                                                                                                |
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| ('wired.com/story/manafort-cohen-guilty-trump-mueller-investigation/', 1)                    | Just minutes apart , in courtrooms in New York and outside Washington , DC , two of Trump 's closest aides — his longtime personal lawyer and his >>>former campaign chairman<<< — became felons , as the former pleaded guilty to eight criminal charges , and the latter was found guilty by a jury on eight other charges .                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
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| ('wired.com/story/michael-flynns-guilty-plea-shows-that-robert-mueller-is-closing-in/', 1)   | Flynn pleaded guilty to a single charge of making false statements , stemming from a nearly year-long probe into his dealings during the presidential transition with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak , thus becoming the >>>fourth Trump campaign official to face charges<<< in recent weeks .                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
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| ('wired.com/story/mueller-indictment-dnc-hack-russia-fancy-bear/', 60)                       | An investigation into money laundering and past business dealings with Russia by people like >>>former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort2<<< .                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
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| ('wired.com/story/mueller-indictment-russia-attack-us-democracy/', 6)                        | While earlier indictments and charges have pointed to individual meetings and mysterious contacts between the Trump campaign and various Russian nationals , Friday 's surprise indictment — another political bombshell in an investigation that has >>>at every step surprised<<< the public — is the first to directly link the activities around the campaign to a large , sophisticated operation directed and funded directly from Russia itself that involved social media platforms like Facebook , Twitter , Instagram , and involved fake accounts like @TEN_GOP , aka " Tennessee GOP . " |
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| ('wired.com/story/mueller-investigation-targets-cohen-sentencing/', 43)                      | In one of my >>>first columns on the special counsel 's investigation<<< , I noted that the FBI focuses on taking down entire , corrupt organizations : mafia families , drug cartels , terrorism rings .                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |
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| ('wired.com/story/mueller-investigation-trump-russia-complete-guide/', 34)                   | Paul Manafort 's Activity : What began over a year ago with a >>>sweeping money laundering indictment<<< targeting Trump 's one-time campaign chair — and resulted in his conviction on eight felonies at trial before he accepted a plea agreement on other charges — continues to unfold .                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
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| ('wired.com/story/mueller-report-trump-obstruction-of-justice-barr/', 8)                     | He did so even as Mueller doggedly made public the " sweeping and systematic fashion " in which the Russian government attacked the 2016 presidential election , and >>>brought serious criminal charges<<< — and won guilty pleas — from a half-dozen of the president 's top campaign aides .                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
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| ('wired.com/story/papadopoulos-plea-robert-mueller-next-moves/', 0)                          | Monday morning , just hours after pundits had settled into dissecting what everyone assumed to be the day 's big revelation — the >>>indictment of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort<<< and his former business associate Rick Gates on a slew of charges related to an alleged money laundering scheme — came an even bigger revelation : George Papadopoulos , foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign , had struck a plea agreement with Robert Mueller 's special counsel office .                                                                                               |
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| ('wired.com/story/papadopoulos-plea-robert-mueller-next-moves/', 36)                         | I wrote a guide earlier explaining how to think about the charges , including >>>five rules for how federal investigations tend to unfold<<< .                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
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| ('wired.com/story/paul-manafort-bad-tech-pdfs-passwords/', 10)                               | That month , special counsel Robert Mueller first >>>charged<<< Manafort with committing a series of financial crimes .                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
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| ('wired.com/story/robert-mueller-trump-questions-investigation/', 0)                         | The beginning of May marks the longest period of public silence from special counsel Robert Mueller 's team since >>>his first charges last October<<< — more than two months without any new plea deals , fresh indictments , or publicly " flipped " witnesses .                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
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| ('wired.com/story/robert-mueller-vietnam/', 62)                                              | At the same time , Mueller 's investigators are probing the business dealings of Trump and his associates , an effort that has yielded indictments for >>>tax fraud and conspiracy<<< against Trump 's former campaign chair , Paul Manafort , and a guilty plea on financial fraud and lying to investigators by Manafort 's deputy , Rick Gates .                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
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| ('wired.com/story/russias-campaign-interference-cast-a-wide-net/', 1)                        | First came a dozen against former >>>Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort<<< , alleging conspiracy and various financial crimes .                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
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| ('wired.com/story/what-congress-should-ask-tech-executives-about-russia/', 0)                | As special counsel >>>Robert Mueller issues the first indictments<<< in his investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 US election , executives of three technology titans will face questioning by Congress this week about Russian use of their platforms .                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
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