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In this July 18, 2016, file photo, Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort
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Republican National Convention in Cleveland. Manafort resigned in
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Manafort, Stone Turn Over Russia Documents to Senate Intel
Committee
NBC News
© AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster In this July 18, 2016, file photo,
Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort walks around the convention floor before
the opening session of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.
Manafort resigned in wake…
Two former associates of President Trump — Paul Manafort and
Roger Stone — have turned over documents to the Senate Intelligence Committee
in its Russia investigation, a congressional source with direct knowledge told
NBC News.
Earlier this month, the committee sent document requests to
Manafort and Stone, as well as Carter Page and Mike Flynn, officials said
previously. The requests sought information pertaining to dealings with Russia.
Page has not yet complied, the congressional source said, and Flynn plans to
assert his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination as a reason not to
comply with a committee subpoena, a source close to him has said.
The committee's letter to Page asked him to list any Russian
official or business executive he met with between June 16, 2015 and Jan. 20,
2017. It also asked him to provide information about Russia-related real estate
transactions during that period. And it seeks all his email or other
communications during that period with Russians, or with the Trump campaign
about Russia or Russians.
Similar letters were sent to Manafort and Stone, and those
men sent information to Senate investigators by last Friday's deadline, the
congressional source said.
"I gave them all documents that were consistent with
their specific request," Stone said in an email to NBC News.
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A spokesman for Manafort, Jason Maloni, confirmed that
Manafort turned over documents, adding that Manafort remains interested in
cooperating with the Senate investigation.
The congressional source said it was too early to tell
whether the documents from Manafort and Stone suggested they had fully complied
with the request. The source added that the
NBC News has reported that as part of the FBI's Russia
collusion investigation, federal grand juries have issued subpoenas for records
relating to both Flynn and Manafort.
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Manafort's $3.5M Home
Flynn's assertion of the Fifth Amendment will make it
difficult for the Senate to enforce its subpoena, Senate aides told NBC News.
The Senate could go to court, or go ask the Justice Department to go to court
to enforce it, but either actin would require the Republicans who control the
chamber to agree.
Meanwhile, Flynn can make an argument that his right against
self-incrimination extends even to the production of documents that could hurt
him, Senate aides said.
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