Special Prosecutor Mueller: Manafort Attempting to Tamper with Witnesses

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."

Manafort sent encrypted messages, while under house arrest, to former employees to encourage them to make “materially false” claims about his lobbying for pro-Russian Ukrainian politicians, according to prosecutors

Welp. remove Manafort from the genius category if he has somehow landed that way on your score sheet.

(via Jim Sciutto)