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FILE - In this May 23, 2018, file photo, Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, leaves the Federal District Court after a hearing, in Washington. Spinning off from the special counsel’s Russia probe, prosecutors are ramping up their investigation into foreign lobbying by two major Washington firms that did work for former Trump campaign chairman Manafort, according to people familiar with the matter. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Prosecutors Ramp Up Foreign Lobbying Probe

by Eric Tucker Associated Press, and Desmond Butler And Chad Day Associated PressDecember 5, 2018

FILE - In this May 19, 2017, file photo, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange greets supporters from a balcony of the Ecuadorian embassy in London. The Justice Department inadvertently named Assange in a court filing in an unrelated case that raised immediate questions about whether the WikiLeaks founder had been charged under seal. Assange’s name appears twice in an August 2018 filing from a prosecutor in Virginia in a separate case involving a man accused of coercing a minor. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)

WikiLeaks’ Assange Faces U.S. Charges

by Eric Tucker Associated PressNovember 16, 2018

President Donald Trump arrives for a ceremony for new Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh at the Supreme Court, in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

White House Braces for Mueller

by Eric Tucker Associated Press, Jonathan Lemire Associated Press, and Chad Day Associated PressNovember 8, 2018

FILE - In this July 20, 2017 file photo, Attorney General Jeff Sessions accompanied by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, speaks at a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington. Sessions resigned Nov. 7, 2018. as the country's chief law enforcement officer after enduring more than a year of blistering and personal attacks from President Donald Trump over his recusal from the Russia investigation. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Jeff Sessions Pushed Out After a Year of Attacks From Trump

by Eric Tucker Associated Press, and Michael Balsamo Associated PressNovember 8, 2018

This Thursday, Oct. 25, 2018 photo shows the United States Postal Service Delaware Processing and Distribution center in New Castle, Del., Thursday, Oct. 25, 2018. A law enforcement official says a package addressed to former Vice President Joe Biden appears similar to packages containing bombs sent to prominent Democrats and has been intercepted at a Delaware mail facility. The FBI confirms there is law enforcement activity at the U.S. mail facility. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Man Detained in Florida in Mail-Bomb Case

by Michael Balsamo Associated Press, Eric Tucker Associated Press, and Colleen Long Associated PressOctober 26, 2018

President Donald Trump pauses as he takes questions from members of the media about Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Monday, Oct. 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

FBI Can Expand Its Kavanaugh Probe

by Eric Tucker Associated Press, and Michael Balsamo Associated PressOctober 1, 2018

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein leaves his home on Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018 in Bethesda, Md. President Donald Trump's meeting with the deputy attorney general may or may not happen Thursday as originally planned, but Trump says he'd prefer not to fire Rosenstein regardless. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

President Postpones Rosenstein Meeting

by Eric Tucker Associated PressSeptember 28, 2018

In this Aug. 28, 2018, file photo, Justice Department official Bruce Ohr arrives for a closed hearing of the House Judiciary and House Oversight committees on Capitol Hill in Washington. A former British spy told Ohr, a senior Justice Department lawyer, at a breakfast meeting on July 30, 2016, that Russian intelligence believed it had Donald Trump “over a barrel,” according to multiple people familiar with the encounter. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Lawyer Was Told Russia Had ‘Trump Over a Barrel’

by Eric Tucker Associated Press, and Chad Day Associated PressAugust 31, 2018

Members of the defense team for Paul Manafort, including Jay Nanavati, left, Kevin Downing, and Thomas Zehnle, walk to federal court for jury deliberations in the trial of the former Trump campaign chairman, in Alexandria, Va., Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Ex-Trump Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort Guilty of 8 Charges

by Matthew Barakat Associated Press, Chad Day Associated Press, and Eric Tucker Associated PressAugust 21, 2018

Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., questions FBI Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok during a hearing on "Oversight of FBI and DOJ Actions Surrounding the 2016 Election," on Capitol Hill, Thursday, July 12, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

FBI Agent Clashes with GOP at Hearing on Russia Probe

by Eric Tucker Associated Press, and Mary Clare Jalonick Associated PressJuly 13, 2018