Mueller wants to review emails between Manafort, former lawyer - POLITICO
"Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team wants to review
emails between Paul Manafort and one of his former lawyers — messages that would typically be protected by attorney-client privilege.
Manafort’s emails are a special case, Mueller’s team argued in a court motion Wednesday.
Attorney-client privilege doesn’t apply when the client enlists a lawyer’s help to commit a crime — and that’s what Mueller’s team is arguing that Manafort did.
...The question of how attorney-client privilege applies to a lawyer who advised Manafort and his former deputy, Rick Gates, around their foreign lobbying work on behalf of former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych has dogged the Washington case for nearly a year.
...Attorney-client privilege didn’t apply to Manafort’s discussions with the lawyer,
U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell wrote, because Mueller’s team had demonstrated that Manafort
“likely violated federal law”..."
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