In the News Does Mueller think Paul Manafort is the key to collusion?
How important, then, is flipping Manafort to Mueller’s case? Paul Rosenzweig recently speculated that the recent effort to send Manafort to jail before his trial could be happening because Mueller badly needs his cooperation, quickly. (Alternatively, perhaps Mueller has other ways to make his case, and he moved against Manafort because the new witness-tampering information just came to his team’s attention.)
