Prosecutors rested their case on Monday in the federal tax and bank fraud trial of Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
Over the past three weeks, through 10 days of testimony and more than two dozen witnesses, the government’s lawyers told a story about how they said Manafort evaded taxes on millions of dollars that poured in from his political consulting work in Ukraine.
After that income dried up, prosecutors say, Manafort lied to banks to get loans to continue the lifestyle to which they say he had become accustomed.
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