Breaking: Special Counsel prosecutors say Paul Manafort was "attempting to tamper with potential witnesses while on pretrial release and, accordingly, has violated the conditions of his release."

B/c what innocent person doesn’t try to tamper with federal witnesses via “encrypted messages” trying to convince them to lie about overseas business activities?

Sucks to suck, @PaulManafort. You’re running out of friends, fast. https://t.co/6rFfS5yBTY

— Counterchekist (@counterchekist) June 5, 2018

So Manafort sent encrypted messages to former employees to encourage them to make “materially false” claims about his lobbying for pro-Russian Ukrainian politicians. While under house arrest! https://t.co/gbJmwkI3my

— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) June 5, 2018

Breaking: Special Counsel prosecutors say Paul Manafort was "attempting to tamper with potential witnesses while on pretrial release and, accordingly, has violated the conditions of his release."

— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) June 5, 2018