Connecticut’s Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal stated on Monday that Michael Flynn and Paul Manafort, the former top advisers of President Donald Trump, are “almost sure” to be criminally charged in the investigation of the special counsel Robert Mueller over Russia’s meddling in the 2016 U.S. elections, Newsweek reports. Blumenthal, who is a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, stated for Politico that Flynn and Manafort are likely to be indicted.
“I’m about 99 percent sure there will be some criminal charges from this investigation,” he stated.
Blumenthal also stated that he’s not quite sure whether Trump would be faced with any charges, including possible obstruction of justice after the firing of the FBI Director James Comey.
Trump’s former informal adviser Roger J. Stone has stated that Manafort will be indicted by the federal prosecutors.
“I believe his attorneys informed my attorneys of that,” Stone said. “They didn’t seem to know when nor what the charge may be.”
Manafort, who served as Trump’s campaign manager, had been investigated by the FBI since early 2014 for his profitable political consulting work in Ukraine. In July, federal agents raided his house following a search warrant issued by Mueller’s investigators. The officials were in search for evidence of possible secret offshore bank accounts opened by him, and they found binders with documents and Manafort’s computer files.
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