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Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort will await his trial for foreign lobbying crimes from jail.
11, 2017, file photo, former Trump campaign chairman Paul

11, 2017, file photo, former Trump campaign chairman Paul

Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort is heading to jail pending his trial, a federal judge decided Friday. Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled that Manafort has violated his pre-trial release and has detained him pending trial, CBS News' Clare Hymes reports. 

He was in court to face superseding charges accusing him of witness tampering. Manafort had previously been out on bail on house arrest, but the government requested that his bail be revoked. 

Special counsel Robert Mueller has brought additional charges against Manafort and longtime associate Konstantin Kilimnik, accusing them of obstructing justice.
 
The new charges were unsealed last week against Paul Manafort and Kilimnik, who worked in the Ukraine offices of Manafort's firm, Davis Manafort Partners International (DMI). Mueller is accusing Manafort and Kilimnik of tampering with two witnesses. Manafort is awaiting trial in federal court in Washington and Virginia on felony charges related to his work on behalf of Ukrainian interests.

The witnesses, who had worked with Manafort as he represented a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine, have told the FBI that they believed Manafort and Kilimnik were trying to get them to lie about the nature of their work.  

This is a developing story and will be updated. 

Source: CBS News:

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