Special counsel Robert Mueller has kept the inner workings of his team’s investigation into possible Russian collusion with the 2016 Donald Trump campaign so secretive that — according to one report by the current York Times — Mueller’s prosecutors refused even to reveal the contents of their lunch order from Shake Shack during a court appearance last year.
But a newly released transcript of a closed-door court hearing in February,in the case of Trump’s 2016 campaign chair Paul Manafort, has offered unprecedented — whether limited — insight into what Mueller and his prosecutors are thinking behind their wall of silence. The transcript, and from a February 4 private hearing at the United States District Court for the District of Columbia,appears to reveal why Mueller believes Manafort continued to lie to him and his investigators — even after he had signed a cooperation agreement and taken a plea deal on a variety of fraud and money laundering charges.
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Source: inquisitr.com