Trumps Campaign Manager Manafort- Defense Lawyers Moving to Washington
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Date: February 13, 2018 10:31AM
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort may be picking up a new defense lawyer.
Manafort's current defense team — Kevin Downing and Tom Zehnle — told a federal district court judge Friday that they're moving offices from a Connecticut Avenue location to New Jersey Avenue. The duo appear to be moving into the Washington, D.C., offices of New York-based law firm Kostelanetz & Fink.
There's no sign Downing and Zehnle are joining that firm. However, one member of that firm could be joining Manafort's defense.
A Kostelanetz partner who specializes in tax cases and works out of that same office, Jay Nanavati, had been talkative about the Manafort case in recent months, but he fell silent on Friday when asked by POLITICO whether he was joining the defense team of the chairman of President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign. Nanavati, a former federal tax prosecutor, also declined to comment on why Downing and Zehnle were moving into his firm's offices.