President Trump’s former campaign chair, Paul Manafort, filed suit in federal court Wednesday, seeking to limit the power of special counsel Robert Mueller, accusing the investigation into alleged Trump-Russia ties of overstretching its authority. Last October, Mueller indicted Manafort and his former business associate Rick Gates on 12 counts, including money laundering, acting as unregistered agents of Ukraine’s former pro-Russian government and conspiracy against the United States.
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