Trump addresses raid of Paul Manafort's home
Paul Manafort
President Donald Trump said  he  was surprised to hear about the FBI's July predawn raid of  his  former campaign chairman's home  saying it was a "very strong signal."
The raid — reportedly an effort to obtain  Paul Manafort 's tax documents and foreign banking records — was conducted as part of the agency's ongoing investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
The fact that the FBI was able to obtain a search warrant indicates that Mueller managed to convince a federal judge that  Manafort  would try to conceal or destroy documents subpoenaed by a grand jury.
"Mueller and his staff may have decided that  despite the claims of cooperation from  Manafort ’s lawyer   Manafort  could not be trusted to provide all of the documents requested by subpoena " wrote Harvard Law School professor Alex Whitting  who served for a decade as a federal prosecutor at the Justice Department and the US Attorney's office in Boston.
The payments  and  Manafort 's activities in Ukraine more broadly  were examined more closely following Yanukovych's ouster on corruption charges in 2014.  Manafort  has been associated with at least 15 bank accounts and 10 companies in Cyprus  dating back to 2007  NBC reported in March  and  he  was reportedly $17 million in debt to pro-Russian interests by the time  he  joined the Trump campaign.
President Donald Trump said  he  was surprised to hear about the FBI's July predawn raid of  his  former campaign chairman's home  saying it was a "very strong signal."
The raid — reportedly an effort to obtain  [TGT] 's tax documents and foreign banking records — was conducted as part of the agency's ongoing investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
The fact that the FBI was able to obtain a search warrant indicates that Mueller managed to convince a federal judge that  Manafort  would try to conceal or destroy documents subpoenaed by a grand jury.
"Mueller and his staff may have decided that  despite the claims of cooperation from  Manafort ’s lawyer   Manafort  could not be trusted to provide all of the documents requested by subpoena " wrote Harvard Law School professor Alex Whitting  who served for a decade as a federal prosecutor at the Justice Department and the US Attorney's office in Boston.
The payments  and  Manafort 's activities in Ukraine more broadly  were examined more closely following Yanukovych's ouster on corruption charges in 2014.  Manafort  has been associated with at least 15 bank accounts and 10 companies in Cyprus  dating back to 2007  NBC reported in March  and  he  was reportedly $17 million in debt to pro-Russian interests by the time  he  joined the Trump campaign.