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Prosecutors call first witness in Manafort trial

First to the stand is Tad Devine, the architect of Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign, who also worked closely with President Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort as a political consultant in Ukraine.

• By Rachel Weiner, Justin Jouvenal, Rosalind S. Helderman and Matt Zapotosky

Jury consists of 6 men and 6 women

Six things you need to know about Manafort’s trial

The fraud case against Trump’s onetime campaign chairman is the first trial involving the special counsel probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

• By Rachel Weiner

The spectacular rise and fall of Paul Manafort

Before he was Donald Trump’s campaign chairman, Paul Manafort was an adviser to a Ukrainian strongman. After what happened in Kiev, he could spend the rest of his life in prison.

• By Dalton Bennett, Jon Gerberg and Jesse Mesner-Hage

A scorched-earth prosecutor and not a mention of Trump

In a packed courtroom in Alexandria, Va., special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s team made its public debut.

By Marc Fisher @ WashingtonPost.com, July 31

 [....] The nation’s inaugural look at special counsel Mueller’s team in action started with a bang. Assistant U.S. Attorney Uzo Asonye, brought onto the special counsel’s staff from the Alexandria federal prosecutor’s office for this case, faced the jury and declared: “A man in this courtroom believed the law did not apply to him.”

But Asonye’s effort to deliver a classically simple, prosecutor’s zinger of an opening got tripped up as U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III interrupted Asonye twice in his first minute, first admonishing him to steer away from bold assertions and only tell the jury what the evidence would show, then halting the prosecutor’s description of Manafort’s lavish lifestyle.

“It isn’t a crime to be profligate in your spending,” Ellis said.

With more than a dozen of his colleagues from the federal investigation alongside and behind him, Asonye recovered quickly, keeping jurors riveted through a 26-minute opening statement that portrayed Manafort as someone who lied about his taxes, his income, his business and a litany of other topics.

Mueller’s prosecutors, nearly all in dark navy-blue suits, had entered the courtroom with a studied determination. They wheeled in 10 boxes of documents on two carts. They sat among themselves before the proceedings began, trading stories about scary judges and their first year in law school.

They looked, in contrast with Manafort’s defense team, like Alexandria, the diverse Potomac riverfront suburb where the trial is being held because Manafort lives nearby. The prosecution table included Asonye, who is African American; two younger white men; and a female FBI agent [....]

Paul Manafort trial Day 3: Bookkeeper testifies she did not know of Manafort’s offshore accounts

@ WaPo by three reporters, August 2 at 2:19 PM

CNN is still providing continual updates from the courtroom at the same link as the top of the thread, currently they've got it titled

The Manafort trial: Testimony continues on Day 3

with four reporters covering it, Updated 56 min ago

and they have the bookkeeper stuff (14 offshore accounts!) and after that "lunch break" and after that Manafort spent millions on audio-video home installations and $10,000 on a karaoke system