#laura scannell

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Daily reminder to listen to The Waystation podcast, we’ve got:

Found footage

Space horrors

Large cast of interesting enough characters that are ripe for audience characterization

Ambiguously non-binary character

Homoerotically charged friendship

An annoying British guy

And

It’s just good it’s short and you should listen to it

Also

The underlying sense of dread in the hollow of your chest at the prospect of knowing that while you may not be able to see the future, there is something out there that is not a kind thing

Cool worldbuilding

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Episode 52 delayed to Friday 31st January!

Hello friends!

Due to a delay in travelling back from Donegal that saw me get home to Belfast a day later than planned, I'm going to scoot this week's episode over a day and release it on Friday instead. I am simply too tired to be this busy 😂

Trust me though, this week's worth waiting for...

[Image description: A screenshot of a podcast script. The stage directions read, "Title music: slow, bluesy jazz. It plays throughout the closing credits." This is followed by a speaker cue for H.R. Owen and the following lines: "Episode Fifty Two of Monstrous Agonies was written by H.R. Owen and performed by H.R. Owen and Elizabeth Plant." End description.]

You might know Elizabeth from her work as Dr. Laura Scannell on The Waystation. She's a wonderful actor and I'm so excited to share her Monstrous Agonies debut with you all 🤩

Also, don't forget I'll be live on Twitch on Saturday 1st January at 8.00PM GMT, playing Curse of Monkey Island and answering your questions. Send in your Qs to be A'd through the usual channels, or turn up on the night and ask away.

Finally, quick reminder that submissions for Season Two are closing this Sunday! If you've any letters, suggestions or prompts burning a hole in your brain-pocket, get 'em in!

Thanks for your patience while I get Episode 52 up to snuff, and see you all on Friday 😘

-Hero

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Mein Lotta-Leben – Alles Tschaka mit Alpaka (2022) Ganzer Film Deutsch: Kinostart, Besetzung & Kritik

Zweiter Film über die Schülerin Lotta und ihre Freund*innen. Dieses Mal führt sie ihre Klassenfahrt nach Amrum.

Nach dem ersten Kinoerfolg im Jahr 2019 folgt nun der zweite Film über Lotta und ihre Freund*innen. Dieses Mal steht alles unter dem Motto: „Mein Lotta-Leben: Alles Tschakka mit Alpaka“.

Lotta Petermann (Meggy Hussong) freut sich schon riesig auf die bevorstehende Klassenfahrt auf die Insel Amrum. Ohne ihre Eltern will sie mit ihren besten Freund*innen Cheyenne (Yola Streese) und Paul (Levi Kazmaier) Abenteuer und Spaß erleben. Doch ihre Mutter Sabine (Laura Tonke) hat andere Pläne. Ihr grummeliger Papa Rainer (Oliver Mommsen) soll als Begleitperson mitreisen.

Der neue französische Mitschüler Rémi (Timothy Scannell) hat ausgerechnet an Lotta einen Narren gefressen und droht die tollen Pläne der Wilden Kaninchen, so der Spitzname von Lottas Freundeskreis, zunichtezumachen.

Auf die Klasse warten in Amrum jedoch einige Überraschungen. Ein mysteriöses Rätsel soll gelöst werden und Klassenlehrerin Frau Kackert (Sarah Hostettler) ist eher mies gelaunt, statt froh dabei. Um dem Geheimnis dennoch auf die Spur zu kommen, müssen sich die Wilden Kaninchen vielleicht sogar mit ihren Rival*innen der (G)Lämmer-Girls um die eingebildete Anführerin Berenike (Laila Ziegler) und den Rockern verbünden.

Kinostart für "Mein Lotta-Leben – Alles Tschaka mit Alpaka"

Die Dreharbeiten fanden im Sommer 2021 sowohl in Köln und Umgebung als auch auf Amrum statt. Der Kinostart für „Mein Lotta-Leben: Alles Tschakka mit Alpaka“ ist am 18. August 2022.

Besetzung Von Mein Lotta-Leben – Alles Tschaka mit Alpaka (2022)

Bereits seit 2012 begeistert die „Mein Lotta-Leben“-Buchreihe von Alice Pantermüller die jungen Leser*innen. Bis 2021 sind insgesamt 18 Romane aus der Reihe im Handel erschienen.

Mit „Mein Lotta-Leben – Alles Tschakka mit Alpaka“ erscheint der zweite Film für die große Kinoleinwand. Die Besetzung ziert erneut dieselben Gesichter, die schon in Teil eins „Mein Lotta-Leben: Da tanzt ja der Flamingo“ mit von der Partie waren. Allen voran die Kinderdarsteller*innen um Meggy Hussong als Lotta, Yola Streese als ihre beste Freundin Cheyenne und Levi Kazmaier als Paul. Auch die Erwachsenen rund um Oliver Mommsen („Tatort: Bremen“) und Laura Tonke („Caveman“) sind wieder mit dabei.

Kritik der FILMSTARTS-REDAKTION

Lotta freut sich so auf ihre Klassenfahrt nach Amrum, zusammen mit Cheyenne und Paul, ihren besten Freunden. Doch als ausgerechnet ihr Papa als Begleitperson mit auf Reisen kommt und der neue französische Austauschschüler Remis sich in sie verknallt, vergeht Lotta komplett die Lust auf alles. Wie gut, dass auf Amrum ein rätselhaftes Geheimnis rund um ein verschwundenes Mädchen darauf wartet, aufgedeckt zu werden. Für Lottas Bande, die „Wilden Kaninchen“ doch gar kein Problem, oder? Pfiffige Dialoge und die erneut frisch und fröhlich agierenden jungen Hauptdarsteller:innen machen auch die zweite Verfilmung der erfolgreichen Kinderbuchvorlage zu einem Kino-Vergnügen für die ganze Familie.

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Manhattan district attorney subpoenas NYC property tax agency in Trump Organization probe “The New York City Tax Commission has received a subpoena from the Manhattan District Attorney regarding Trump Organization properties,” Laura Feyer, a spokesperson for the New York City Mayor, which also speaks on behalf of the property tax agency’s office, told CNN. Reuters first reported on the subpoena. Feyer did not comment further on the matter. The Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance’s office declined to comment. CNN has reached out to the Trump Organization for comment. Vance’s office is investigating whether the Trump Organization violated any state laws, including insurance fraud or tax fraud. His team of prosecutors are looking into what the Trump Organization told lenders and tax authorities about the value of its assets and the legality of tax deductions, including from conservation easements and consulting fees the company took. The Trump Organization has maintained that it has complied with all laws. The company’s general counsel, Alan Garten, told the New York Times last year that “everything was done in strict compliance with applicable law and under the advice of counsel and tax experts” and that “all applicable taxes were paid and no party received any undue benefit.” Vance’s investigation, which began in earnest in August 2019, includes allegations made by former Trump attorney Michael Cohen that the Trump Organization inflated assets when seeking loans and deflated them when it came time to pay taxes. CNN previously reported investigators have interviewed Cohen multiple times, including as recently as this week. Investigators are also looking into numerous loans the Trump Organization has taken out, including those from Deutsche Bank and Ladder Capital, CNN reported this week. Meanwhile, prosecutors are waiting on a Supreme Court ruling over a grand jury subpoena to Trump’s accounting firm Mazars USA for his financial records, including his tax returns. The subpoena issued to the New York City Tax Commission, which reviews annual real property tax assessments set by the Department of Finance, is a further sign that the prosecutors are looking into whether Trump’s business misled local tax authorities about the value of its properties. The New York City Tax Commission examines applications for correcting tax assessments and whether applicants have been improperly denied an exemption from real property tax. There is a separate civil inquiry into the Trump Organization being conducted by the office of New York Attorney General Letitia James. CNN’s Kara Scannell, Sonia Moghe and Rob Frehse contributed to this report. Source link Orbem News #agency #attorney #District #Manhattan #ManhattandistrictattorneysubpoenasNYCpropertytaxagencyinTrumpOrganizationprobe-CNNPolitics #NYC #organization #Politics #probe #property #subpoenas #Tax #Trump

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Manhattan district attorney subpoenas NYC property tax agency in Trump Organization probe

New Post has been published on https://appradab.com/manhattan-district-attorney-subpoenas-nyc-property-tax-agency-in-trump-organization-probe/

Manhattan district attorney subpoenas NYC property tax agency in Trump Organization probe

“The New York City Tax Commission has received a subpoena from the Manhattan District Attorney regarding Trump Organization properties,” Laura Feyer, a spokesperson for the New York City Mayor, which also speaks on behalf of the property tax agency’s office, told Appradab.

Reuters first reported on the subpoena.

Feyer did not comment further on the matter. The Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance’s office declined to comment. Appradab has reached out to the Trump Organization for comment.

Vance’s office is investigating whether the Trump Organization violated any state laws, including insurance fraud or tax fraud. His team of prosecutors are looking into what the Trump Organization told lenders and tax authorities about the value of its assets and the legality of tax deductions, including from conservation easements and consulting fees the company took.

The Trump Organization has maintained that it has complied with all laws. The company’s general counsel, Alan Garten, told the New York Times last year that “everything was done in strict compliance with applicable law and under the advice of counsel and tax experts” and that “all applicable taxes were paid and no party received any undue benefit.”

Vance’s investigation, which began in earnest in August 2019, includes allegations made by former Trump attorney Michael Cohen that the Trump Organization inflated assets when seeking loans and deflated them when it came time to pay taxes. Appradab previously reported investigators have interviewed Cohen multiple times, including as recently as this week.

Investigators are also looking into numerous loans the Trump Organization has taken out, including those from Deutsche Bank and Ladder Capital, Appradab reported this week.

Meanwhile, prosecutors are waiting on a Supreme Court ruling over a grand jury subpoena to Trump’s accounting firm Mazars USA for his financial records, including his tax returns.

The subpoena issued to the New York City Tax Commission, which reviews annual real property tax assessments set by the Department of Finance, is a further sign that the prosecutors are looking into whether Trump’s business misled local tax authorities about the value of its properties.

The New York City Tax Commission examines applications for correcting tax assessments and whether applicants have been improperly denied an exemption from real property tax.

There is a separate civil inquiry into the Trump Organization being conducted by the office of New York Attorney General Letitia James.

Appradab’s Kara Scannell, Sonia Moghe and Rob Frehse contributed to this report.

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Tagged

tagged by @cooler-than-a-vintage-cassette My top 10 songs and tag 10 followers

In no particular order:

Fisherman’s Blues - The Waterboys

Love Goes On - Richard Marx and Matt Scannell

Bad Idea - Waitress

The Campfire Song - The Lightning Thief

Where I’m At - It’s Kind Of A Funny Story

Santa Fe - Rent

Bright - Laura Dreyfuss and Will Connelly 

What Baking Can Do - Waitress

A Mad Russian’s Christmas - Trans-Siberian Orchestra (on a related note I love this as well)

By My Side - Godspell 

I tag: @jacklisowski @magnus-rushesin @beyondthesunrise @on-the-elevated-train @bi-hansen @bisexual-evanhansen @someonesblogger @mortal-goddess @fox-of-glass @bisexualrichardgoranski

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Noticias de series de la semana: Habrá 'After Life' para 'Upload'

Renovaciones

Amazon ha renovado Upload por una segunda temporada

Netflix ha renovado After Life por una tercera temporada

CBS ha renovado Evil por una segunda temporada

CBS ha renovado Bob Hearts Abishola por una segunda temporada

CBS ha renovado All Rise por una segunda temporada

CBS ha renovado The Unicorn por una segunda temporada

CBS ha renovado FBI: Most Wanted por una segunda temporada

CBS ha renovado FBI por una tercera temporada

CBS ha renovado Magnum P.I. por una tercera temporada

CBS ha renovado The Neighborhood por una tercera temporada

CBS ha renovado SWAT por una cuarta temporada

CBS ha renovado SEAL Team por una cuarta temporada

CBS ha renovado Bull por una quinta temporada

CBS ha renovado MacGyver por una quinta temporada

CBS ha renovado NCIS: New Orleans por una séptima temporada

CBS ha renovado Blue Bloods por una undécima temporada

CBS ha renovado NCIS: LA por una duodécima temporada

CBS ha renovado NCIS por una decimoctava temporada

FOX ha renovado Bob's Burgers por una undécima temporada

FOX ha renovado Family Guy por una decimonovena temporada

Cancelaciones

History ha cancelado Project Blue Book tras su segunda temporada

History ha cancelado Knightfall tras su segunda temporada

CBS ha cancelado Man With a Plan tras su cuarta temporada

CBS ha cancelado Tommy tras su primera temporada

CBS ha cancelado Broke tras su primera temporada

CBS ha cancelado Carol's Second Act tras su primera temporada

La quinta temporada de Greenleaf (OWN) será la última

Noticias cortas

Los protagonistas de Community se reunirán online para leer el guion del episodio 5x04. Pedro Pascal (Game of Thrones, Narcos) sustituirá a Walton Goggins interpretando a Mr. Stone, el abogado de Pierce (Chevy Chase).

Laura Sohn (Alina Park) será regular en la octava temporada de The Blacklist.

The Right Stuff pasa de National Geographic a Disney+.

Fichajes

Chris Noth (The Good Wife, Sex and the City) protagonizará The Equalizer junto a Queen Latifah. Será William Bishop, exdirector de la CIA.

Kal Penn (Designated Survivor, House M.D.), Michael Cudlitz (The Walking Dead) y Nick Sandow (Orange Is the New Black) se unen a Clarice.

Eric Lange (Escape at Dannemora) protagonizará 61st Street junto a Courtney B. Vance y Tosin Cole. Será el teniente Tardelli.

Pósters

  Nuevas series

Darren Star prepara un spin-off de Younger centrado en el personaje de Hilary Duff. No hay cadena asignada.

Nick Antosca (The Act, Channel Zero) adaptará en una limited series el documental de Netflix Abducted in Plain Sight.

Nicolas Cage (Leaving Las Vegas, Con Air) protagonizará una serie sobre Joe Exotic, de la docuserie Tiger King. Escrita y producida por Dan Lagana (American Vandal), estará basada en un artículo de Texas Monthly. Tendrá ocho episodios.

Disney+ prepara una serie de National Treasure con un cast mucho más joven.

Luz verde directa en CBS a The Equalizer, reimaginación de la serie clásica. Protagonizada por Queen Latifah (Star, Chicago), que interpreta a Robyn, una mujer enigmática con un pasado misterioso que usa sus extensas habilidades para ayudar a los que no tienen a quien recurrir. Le acompañan Chris Noth (The Good Wife, Sex and the City), Lorraine Toussaint (Orange Is the New Black, Into the Badlands), Tory Kittles (True Detective, Colony), Liza Lapira (Unbelievable, Apartment 23) y Laya DeLeon Hayes (Raven's Home, Just Add Magic). Escrita y producida por Andrew Marlowe (Castle, Take Two) y Terri Miller (Castle, Take Two).

Luz verde directa en CBS a Clarice, secuela de The Silence of the Lambs centrada en la detective Starling (Rebecca Breeds; Pretty Little Liars, The Originals) en 1993 mientras persigue a asesinos en serie y depredadores sexuales en Washington D.C. Con Kal Penn (Designated Survivor, House M.D.), Michael Cudlitz (The Walking Dead), Nick Sandow (Orange Is the New Black), Lucca de Oliveira (Animal Kingdom, SEAL Team) y Devyn A. Tyler (The Purge, Watchmen). Escrita y producida por Alex Kurtzman (Fringe, Alias) y Jenny Lumet (Star Trek: Discovery).

CBS encarga B Positive, comedia sobre un padre recién divorciado (Thomas Middleditch; Silicon Valley, Solar Opposites) que necesita un riñón y se encuentra con una mujer de su pasado (Annaleigh Ashford; Masters of Sex, American Crime Story) que ofrece el suyo. Con Kether Donohue (You're the Worst), Sara Rue (Popular, Impastor) y Kamryn Kunody. Creada, escrita y producida por Chuck Lorre (The Big Bang Theory, Mom).

Amazon adquiere el thriller The Terminal List, sobre un Navy SEAL (Chris Pratt; Parks and Recreation, Guardians of the Galaxy) cuyo pelotón sufre una emboscada en una misión encubierta y vuelve a casa con recuerdos confusos y dudas sobre su culpabilidad. Basado en la novela de Jack Carr (2018), escrito por David DiGilio (Strange Angel, Traveler) y dirigido por Antoine Fuqua (The Magnificent Seven, The Equalizer). Producido por Pratt, Fuqua y DiGilio.

Amazon desarrolla The Horror of Dolores Roach, adaptación del podcast de Aaron Mark basado en su obra Empanada Loca, sobre una mujer que vuelve a Nueva York tras pasar dieciséis años en prisión y comienza a estrangular a clientes de su negocio de masajes. Escrita por Dara Resnik (Home Before Dark), Aaron Mark y Daphne Rubin-Vega, la protagonista de la obra.

HBO Max ha encargado diez episodios de una comedia sobre una diva de Las Vegas (Jean Smart; Watchmen, Samantha Who?) que se convierte en la mentora de una marginada de veinticinco años que se cree con derecho a todo. Creada y escrita por Paul W. Downs, Lucia Aniello y Jen Statsky, guionistas de Broad City. Producida por Michael Schur (Parks and Recreation, The Good Place).

Mike Flanagan (The Haunting of Hill House, Gerald's Game) y Leah Fong (Once Upon a Time) adaptarán la novela The Midnight Club (1994) para Netflix. Trata sobre un grupo de pacientes terminales adolescentes que se reúnen para contar historias de miedo y hacen un pacto para que el primero en morir contacte con ellos desde la tumba.

FX ha encargado una antología escrita y dirigida por B.J. Novak (The Office). Aún sin título, usará temas actuales como punto de partida para contar historias sobre el mundo en el que vivimos hoy. Dos episodios ya se han grabado. El primero cuenta con Lucas Hedges, Kaitlyn Dever, George Wallace, Ed Asner, Brendan Francis Scannell y O'Shea Jackson Jr. El segundo, con Jon Bernthal, Boyd Holbrook, Amy Landecker y Beau Bridges.

AMC desarrolla una limited series sobre Rob Ford, exalcalde de Toronto. Protagonizada por Jim Gaffigan (That '70s  Show, The Jim Gaffigan Show), escrita y producida por Jesse McKeown (The Sinner) y dirigida por Michael Dowse (Man Seeking Woman, Future Man).

Freeform ha encargado Love in the Time of Corona, limited series de cuatro episodios sobre la búsqueda del amor y el sexo en tiempos de distanciamiento social. ITV emitirá Isolation Stories, historias cortas sobre gente que lidia con el Coronavirus confinada en sus casas. HBO España prepara la serie En casa y Netflix ha encargado la antología Social Distance.

Fechas

We Hunt Together se estrena en Alibi el 27 de mayo

La segunda temporada de American Soul se estrena en BET el 27 de mayo

I May Destroy You se estrena en HBO el 7 de junio

The Baby-Sitters Club llega a Netflix el 3 de julio

Tráilers

Space Force

Sweet Magnolias

Yellowstone - Temporada 3

The 100 - Temporada 7 y última

The Spanish Princess - Temporada 2

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Horror Movie Review: He's Out There (2018)

Horror Movie Review: He’s Out There (2018)

I’ve seen a lot of horror movies and because of that I’m always looking for something innovative. I’ll always give a film extra credit if it can at least provide me with that. Unfortunately, He’s Out There doesn’t quite manage it. Releasing in 2018, it was directed by Quinn Lasher and written by Mike Scannell.

Laura takes her two young daughters, Kayla and Maddie, to a remote lake house for their…

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Court filing cites charges against Assange

Court filing cites charges against Assange

Author: Laura Jarrett, Kara Scannell and Evan Perez, CNN

A pair of references to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in an unrelated court filing reveals US government efforts to charge him.

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Business Mueller’s quiet period has not been very quiet

Business Mueller’s quiet period has not been very quiet Business Mueller’s quiet period has not been very quiet http://www.nature-business.com/business-muellers-quiet-period-has-not-been-very-quiet/

Business

Washington (CNN)Ever since reaching a deal with special counsel Robert Mueller, Paul Manafort has kept the Russia prosecutors busy.

The former Trump campaign chairman and his lawyers have visited Mueller’s office in Washington at least nine times in the last four weeks, a strong indication that the special counsel is moving at a steady clip.

September and October at first glance appear to be quiet periods for the investigation, under the Justice Department’s guidelines to avoid public political acts before the midterm elections. But the quiet period has seen a persistent murmur of activity, based on near-daily sightings of Mueller’s prosecutors and sources involved in the investigation.

In addition to Manafort, Mueller’s team has kept interviewing witnesses, gathered a grand jury weekly to meet in Washington on most Fridays, and kicked up other still-secret court action. Plus, the discussions between the President’s legal team and the special counsel’s office have intensified in recent weeks, including after the special counsel sent questions about possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian government. The President’s attorneys are expected to reply to the questions in writing.

People around Trump and other witnesses believe more criminal indictments will come from Mueller.

Attorneys who have dealt with Mueller’s investigators and other officials expect that the special counsel’s efforts, now 17 months in the works, will include an active post-election period a much-anticipated report where Mueller will outline what his investigators decided to prosecute and what they declined.

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who oversees the investigation, on Wednesday called the probe “appropriate and independent,” in an interview with

The Wall Street Journal.

“[A]t the end of the day, the public will have confidence that the cases we brought were warranted by the evidence and that it was an appropriate use of resources.”

A frequent cooperator

At least nine times since he pleaded guilty on September 14, a black Ford SUV has brought Manafort to Mueller’s office in southwest DC around 10 am. Manafort’s lawyers arrive around the same time, waiting in the lobby for the car to arrive. There they remain inside the offices, typically for six hours.

It’s not entirely clear yet what Manafort has shared with prosecutors, and if his interviews check facts that haven’t yet come to light outside of the prosecutors’ own notes. Among the questions, investigators have asked Manafort about his dealings with Russians, according to one source familiar with the matter.

Attorneys for Manafort would not discuss their activities for this story.

The visits amount to what could total dozens of hours of interviews between Mueller’s prosecutors and Manafort since he finalized his plea agreement. Manafort agreed to fully cooperate with the Justice Department as it investigates the Trump campaign and the Russian government’s actions before the 2016 election.

At the same time, Trump has distanced himself from crimes investigators still may be pursuing. He publicly claimed this week that criminal charges so far brought by Mueller’s team have nothing to do with him. Trump attorneys declined to comment for this story.

Other help

The flurry of interviews with Manafort and other cooperating defendants leaves Trump’s legal team somewhat in the dark on what Mueller is pursuing.

Manafort’s lawyers have shared information with the Trump legal team, but according to sources familiar with the case, there is no formal joint defense agreement.

Manafort’s criminal confessions and separate conviction by a jury dealt with his Ukrainian lobbying work and financial dealings largely before 2016. Yet his cooperation is widely expected to include helping the prosecutors build potential criminal cases about coordination between the Russian government and Trump campaign.

Aside from Manafort, three other Trump campaign officials have pleaded guilty to charges. Two of them, campaign deputy Rick Gates and former national security adviser Michael Flynn, also agreed to broadly help Mueller’s team with its investigation and have visited the special counsel’s office to give interviews since their pleas.

Mueller’s team has also been

speaking with Michael Cohen

, Trump’s former personal attorney, who has spent hours with Mueller’s team since his own guilty plea in August, in which he accused President Donald Trump of directing him to commit a crime.

Trump legal team

Meanwhile, Trump’s team is working up answers to Mueller’s questions. Even if the defense team were to sign and deliver their answers soon, Mueller’s office may have follow-up questions that drag out their discussions. The legal team, comprised of personal and White House lawyers Jay Sekulow, Marty and Jane Raskin and Emmet Flood, still hasn’t reached an agreement on whether the President will be interviewed in person or must respond to questions about possible obstruction of justice related to his firing of FBI Director James Comey.

While they’re in investigatory limbo, expectations have grown in Washington legal circles that Mueller will issue a report soon after the November election or even before the end of the year.

When it’s finished, Mueller’s report is expected to explain the decisions of the Justice Department to bring or to decline to bring criminal cases during the course of the investigation. Mueller’s findings and decisions will be confidential, unless higher-up officials in the Justice Department decide to make the report public.

As of now, the Trump legal team operates under the belief that Mueller won’t finish his work without bringing indictments that hit closer to the Trump campaign.

Activity in the DC courthouse

The next campaign contact in Mueller’s crosshairs may be Trump adviser Roger Stone, who’s publicly said he expects to be indicted after nine of his friends and aides spoke to Mueller’s office or received grand jury subpoenas. In the last two weeks, multiple contacts of Stone have been in touch with the special counsel’s office about them providing information, according to CNN’s reporting.

Special counsel prosecutors have also visited the federal courthouse in downtown Washington almost daily.

Once in early September and once in early October, Chief Judge Beryl Howell held hour-long sealed hearings in her courtroom featuring trial and appellate prosecutors from Mueller’s office. Both times, the lawyers opposite the Justice Department declined to share with CNN their names, clients names or law firms. Howell oversees court action related to the federal grand jury that Mueller has used to approve indictments in DC.

Previously she has ordered two witnesses — a real estate agent and a lawyer — to testify against Manafort before the grand jury, and she held Andrew Miller, a Stone associate, in contempt for refusing to comply with a subpoena. The real estate and lawyer orders became public on the eve of Manafort’s indictment last October, and Miller’s attorneys spoke publicly about his subpoena challenge as it was ongoing.

Other times in the courthouse in recent weeks, the Mueller investigators visit the chief judge’s chambers and then clerk’s office, indicating a flurry of court paperwork.

A spokesperson for Howell and the federal court in DC declined to comment on the nature of the recent sealed court activity, as did a spokesman for the special counsel’s office.

As the court action moves forward, Trump himself has said he is working on giving information to Mueller. When asked by the Associated Press on Tuesday if he would sit for an interview with Mueller or simply answer written questions, as his lawyers have agreed to do, Trump said: “You know that’s in process. It’s a tremendous waste of time for the president of the United States.”

CNN’s Sara Murray, Erica Orden, Kara Scannell, Laura Robinson, Em Steck and Sam Fossum contributed to this report.

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Washington (CNN)Ever since reaching a deal with special counsel Robert Mueller, Paul Manafort has kept the Russia prosecutors busy.

The former Trump campaign chairman and his lawyers have visited Mueller’s office in Washington at least nine times in the last four weeks, a strong indication that the special counsel is moving at a steady clip.

September and October at first glance appear to be quiet periods for the investigation, under the Justice Department’s guidelines to avoid public political acts before the midterm elections. But the quiet period has seen a persistent murmur of activity, based on near-daily sightings of Mueller’s prosecutors and sources involved in the investigation.

In addition to Manafort, Mueller’s team has kept interviewing witnesses, gathered a grand jury weekly to meet in Washington on most Fridays, and kicked up other still-secret court action. Plus, the discussions between the President’s legal team and the special counsel’s office have intensified in recent weeks, including after the special counsel sent questions about possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian government. The President’s attorneys are expected to reply to the questions in writing.

People around Trump and other witnesses believe more criminal indictments will come from Mueller.

Attorneys who have dealt with Mueller’s investigators and other officials expect that the special counsel’s efforts, now 17 months in the works, will include an active post-election period a much-anticipated report where Mueller will outline what his investigators decided to prosecute and what they declined.

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who oversees the investigation, on Wednesday called the probe “appropriate and independent,” in an interview with

The Wall Street Journal.

“[A]t the end of the day, the public will have confidence that the cases we brought were warranted by the evidence and that it was an appropriate use of resources.”

A frequent cooperator

At least nine times since he pleaded guilty on September 14, a black Ford SUV has brought Manafort to Mueller’s office in southwest DC around 10 am. Manafort’s lawyers arrive around the same time, waiting in the lobby for the car to arrive. There they remain inside the offices, typically for six hours.

It’s not entirely clear yet what Manafort has shared with prosecutors, and if his interviews check facts that haven’t yet come to light outside of the prosecutors’ own notes. Among the questions, investigators have asked Manafort about his dealings with Russians, according to one source familiar with the matter.

Attorneys for Manafort would not discuss their activities for this story.

The visits amount to what could total dozens of hours of interviews between Mueller’s prosecutors and Manafort since he finalized his plea agreement. Manafort agreed to fully cooperate with the Justice Department as it investigates the Trump campaign and the Russian government’s actions before the 2016 election.

At the same time, Trump has distanced himself from crimes investigators still may be pursuing. He publicly claimed this week that criminal charges so far brought by Mueller’s team have nothing to do with him. Trump attorneys declined to comment for this story.

Other help

The flurry of interviews with Manafort and other cooperating defendants leaves Trump’s legal team somewhat in the dark on what Mueller is pursuing.

Manafort’s lawyers have shared information with the Trump legal team, but according to sources familiar with the case, there is no formal joint defense agreement.

Manafort’s criminal confessions and separate conviction by a jury dealt with his Ukrainian lobbying work and financial dealings largely before 2016. Yet his cooperation is widely expected to include helping the prosecutors build potential criminal cases about coordination between the Russian government and Trump campaign.

Aside from Manafort, three other Trump campaign officials have pleaded guilty to charges. Two of them, campaign deputy Rick Gates and former national security adviser Michael Flynn, also agreed to broadly help Mueller’s team with its investigation and have visited the special counsel’s office to give interviews since their pleas.

Mueller’s team has also been

speaking with Michael Cohen

, Trump’s former personal attorney, who has spent hours with Mueller’s team since his own guilty plea in August, in which he accused President Donald Trump of directing him to commit a crime.

Trump legal team

Meanwhile, Trump’s team is working up answers to Mueller’s questions. Even if the defense team were to sign and deliver their answers soon, Mueller’s office may have follow-up questions that drag out their discussions. The legal team, comprised of personal and White House lawyers Jay Sekulow, Marty and Jane Raskin and Emmet Flood, still hasn’t reached an agreement on whether the President will be interviewed in person or must respond to questions about possible obstruction of justice related to his firing of FBI Director James Comey.

While they’re in investigatory limbo, expectations have grown in Washington legal circles that Mueller will issue a report soon after the November election or even before the end of the year.

When it’s finished, Mueller’s report is expected to explain the decisions of the Justice Department to bring or to decline to bring criminal cases during the course of the investigation. Mueller’s findings and decisions will be confidential, unless higher-up officials in the Justice Department decide to make the report public.

As of now, the Trump legal team operates under the belief that Mueller won’t finish his work without bringing indictments that hit closer to the Trump campaign.

Activity in the DC courthouse

The next campaign contact in Mueller’s crosshairs may be Trump adviser Roger Stone, who’s publicly said he expects to be indicted after nine of his friends and aides spoke to Mueller’s office or received grand jury subpoenas. In the last two weeks, multiple contacts of Stone have been in touch with the special counsel’s office about them providing information, according to CNN’s reporting.

Special counsel prosecutors have also visited the federal courthouse in downtown Washington almost daily.

Once in early September and once in early October, Chief Judge Beryl Howell held hour-long sealed hearings in her courtroom featuring trial and appellate prosecutors from Mueller’s office. Both times, the lawyers opposite the Justice Department declined to share with CNN their names, clients names or law firms. Howell oversees court action related to the federal grand jury that Mueller has used to approve indictments in DC.

Previously she has ordered two witnesses — a real estate agent and a lawyer — to testify against Manafort before the grand jury, and she held Andrew Miller, a Stone associate, in contempt for refusing to comply with a subpoena. The real estate and lawyer orders became public on the eve of Manafort’s indictment last October, and Miller’s attorneys spoke publicly about his subpoena challenge as it was ongoing.

Other times in the courthouse in recent weeks, the Mueller investigators visit the chief judge’s chambers and then clerk’s office, indicating a flurry of court paperwork.

A spokesperson for Howell and the federal court in DC declined to comment on the nature of the recent sealed court activity, as did a spokesman for the special counsel’s office.

As the court action moves forward, Trump himself has said he is working on giving information to Mueller. When asked by the Associated Press on Tuesday if he would sit for an interview with Mueller or simply answer written questions, as his lawyers have agreed to do, Trump said: “You know that’s in process. It’s a tremendous waste of time for the president of the United States.”

CNN’s Sara Murray, Erica Orden, Kara Scannell, Laura Robinson, Em Steck and Sam Fossum contributed to this report.

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Washington (CNN)Ever since reaching a deal with special counsel Robert Mueller, Paul Manafort has kept the Russia prosecutors busy.

The former Trump campaign chairman and his lawyers have visited Mueller’s office in Washington at least nine times in the last four weeks, a strong indication that the special counsel is moving at a steady clip.

September and October at first glance appear to be quiet periods for the investigation, under the Justice Department’s guidelines to avoid public political acts before the midterm elections. But the quiet period has seen a persistent murmur of activity, based on near-daily sightings of Mueller’s prosecutors and sources involved in the investigation.

In addition to Manafort, Mueller’s team has kept interviewing witnesses, gathered a grand jury weekly to meet in Washington on most Fridays, and kicked up other still-secret court action. Plus, the discussions between the President’s legal team and the special counsel’s office have intensified in recent weeks, including after the special counsel sent questions about possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian government. The President’s attorneys are expected to reply to the questions in writing.

People around Trump and other witnesses believe more criminal indictments will come from Mueller.

Attorneys who have dealt with Mueller’s investigators and other officials expect that the special counsel’s efforts, now 17 months in the works, will include an active post-election period a much-anticipated report where Mueller will outline what his investigators decided to prosecute and what they declined.

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who oversees the investigation, on Wednesday called the probe “appropriate and independent,” in an interview with

The Wall Street Journal.

“[A]t the end of the day, the public will have confidence that the cases we brought were warranted by the evidence and that it was an appropriate use of resources.”

A frequent cooperator

At least nine times since he pleaded guilty on September 14, a black Ford SUV has brought Manafort to Mueller’s office in southwest DC around 10 am. Manafort’s lawyers arrive around the same time, waiting in the lobby for the car to arrive. There they remain inside the offices, typically for six hours.

It’s not entirely clear yet what Manafort has shared with prosecutors, and if his interviews check facts that haven’t yet come to light outside of the prosecutors’ own notes. Among the questions, investigators have asked Manafort about his dealings with Russians, according to one source familiar with the matter.

Attorneys for Manafort would not discuss their activities for this story.

The visits amount to what could total dozens of hours of interviews between Mueller’s prosecutors and Manafort since he finalized his plea agreement. Manafort agreed to fully cooperate with the Justice Department as it investigates the Trump campaign and the Russian government’s actions before the 2016 election.

At the same time, Trump has distanced himself from crimes investigators still may be pursuing. He publicly claimed this week that criminal charges so far brought by Mueller’s team have nothing to do with him. Trump attorneys declined to comment for this story.

Other help

The flurry of interviews with Manafort and other cooperating defendants leaves Trump’s legal team somewhat in the dark on what Mueller is pursuing.

Manafort’s lawyers have shared information with the Trump legal team, but according to sources familiar with the case, there is no formal joint defense agreement.

Manafort’s criminal confessions and separate conviction by a jury dealt with his Ukrainian lobbying work and financial dealings largely before 2016. Yet his cooperation is widely expected to include helping the prosecutors build potential criminal cases about coordination between the Russian government and Trump campaign.

Aside from Manafort, three other Trump campaign officials have pleaded guilty to charges. Two of them, campaign deputy Rick Gates and former national security adviser Michael Flynn, also agreed to broadly help Mueller’s team with its investigation and have visited the special counsel’s office to give interviews since their pleas.

Mueller’s team has also been

speaking with Michael Cohen

, Trump’s former personal attorney, who has spent hours with Mueller’s team since his own guilty plea in August, in which he accused President Donald Trump of directing him to commit a crime.

Trump legal team

Meanwhile, Trump’s team is working up answers to Mueller’s questions. Even if the defense team were to sign and deliver their answers soon, Mueller’s office may have follow-up questions that drag out their discussions. The legal team, comprised of personal and White House lawyers Jay Sekulow, Marty and Jane Raskin and Emmet Flood, still hasn’t reached an agreement on whether the President will be interviewed in person or must respond to questions about possible obstruction of justice related to his firing of FBI Director James Comey.

While they’re in investigatory limbo, expectations have grown in Washington legal circles that Mueller will issue a report soon after the November election or even before the end of the year.

When it’s finished, Mueller’s report is expected to explain the decisions of the Justice Department to bring or to decline to bring criminal cases during the course of the investigation. Mueller’s findings and decisions will be confidential, unless higher-up officials in the Justice Department decide to make the report public.

As of now, the Trump legal team operates under the belief that Mueller won’t finish his work without bringing indictments that hit closer to the Trump campaign.

Activity in the DC courthouse

The next campaign contact in Mueller’s crosshairs may be Trump adviser Roger Stone, who’s publicly said he expects to be indicted after nine of his friends and aides spoke to Mueller’s office or received grand jury subpoenas. In the last two weeks, multiple contacts of Stone have been in touch with the special counsel’s office about them providing information, according to CNN’s reporting.

Special counsel prosecutors have also visited the federal courthouse in downtown Washington almost daily.

Once in early September and once in early October, Chief Judge Beryl Howell held hour-long sealed hearings in her courtroom featuring trial and appellate prosecutors from Mueller’s office. Both times, the lawyers opposite the Justice Department declined to share with CNN their names, clients names or law firms. Howell oversees court action related to the federal grand jury that Mueller has used to approve indictments in DC.

Previously she has ordered two witnesses — a real estate agent and a lawyer — to testify against Manafort before the grand jury, and she held Andrew Miller, a Stone associate, in contempt for refusing to comply with a subpoena. The real estate and lawyer orders became public on the eve of Manafort’s indictment last October, and Miller’s attorneys spoke publicly about his subpoena challenge as it was ongoing.

Other times in the courthouse in recent weeks, the Mueller investigators visit the chief judge’s chambers and then clerk’s office, indicating a flurry of court paperwork.

A spokesperson for Howell and the federal court in DC declined to comment on the nature of the recent sealed court activity, as did a spokesman for the special counsel’s office.

As the court action moves forward, Trump himself has said he is working on giving information to Mueller. When asked by the Associated Press on Tuesday if he would sit for an interview with Mueller or simply answer written questions, as his lawyers have agreed to do, Trump said: “You know that’s in process. It’s a tremendous waste of time for the president of the United States.”

CNN’s Sara Murray, Erica Orden, Kara Scannell, Laura Robinson, Em Steck and Sam Fossum contributed to this report.

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Washington (CNN)Ever since reaching a deal with special counsel Robert Mueller, Paul Manafort has kept the Russia prosecutors busy.

The former Trump campaign chairman and his lawyers have visited Mueller’s office in Washington at least nine times in the last four weeks, a strong indication that the special counsel is moving at a steady clip.

September and October at first glance appear to be quiet periods for the investigation, under the Justice Department’s guidelines to avoid public political acts before the midterm elections. But the quiet period has seen a persistent murmur of activity, based on near-daily sightings of Mueller’s prosecutors and sources involved in the investigation.

In addition to Manafort, Mueller’s team has kept interviewing witnesses, gathered a grand jury weekly to meet in Washington on most Fridays, and kicked up other still-secret court action. Plus, the discussions between the President’s legal team and the special counsel’s office have intensified in recent weeks, including after the special counsel sent questions about possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian government. The President’s attorneys are expected to reply to the questions in writing.

People around Trump and other witnesses believe more criminal indictments will come from Mueller.

Attorneys who have dealt with Mueller’s investigators and other officials expect that the special counsel’s efforts, now 17 months in the works, will include an active post-election period a much-anticipated report where Mueller will outline what his investigators decided to prosecute and what they declined.

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who oversees the investigation, on Wednesday called the probe “appropriate and independent,” in an interview with

The Wall Street Journal.

“[A]t the end of the day, the public will have confidence that the cases we brought were warranted by the evidence and that it was an appropriate use of resources.”

A frequent cooperator

At least nine times since he pleaded guilty on September 14, a black Ford SUV has brought Manafort to Mueller’s office in southwest DC around 10 am. Manafort’s lawyers arrive around the same time, waiting in the lobby for the car to arrive. There they remain inside the offices, typically for six hours.

It’s not entirely clear yet what Manafort has shared with prosecutors, and if his interviews check facts that haven’t yet come to light outside of the prosecutors’ own notes. Among the questions, investigators have asked Manafort about his dealings with Russians, according to one source familiar with the matter.

Attorneys for Manafort would not discuss their activities for this story.

The visits amount to what could total dozens of hours of interviews between Mueller’s prosecutors and Manafort since he finalized his plea agreement. Manafort agreed to fully cooperate with the Justice Department as it investigates the Trump campaign and the Russian government’s actions before the 2016 election.

At the same time, Trump has distanced himself from crimes investigators still may be pursuing. He publicly claimed this week that criminal charges so far brought by Mueller’s team have nothing to do with him. Trump attorneys declined to comment for this story.

Other help

The flurry of interviews with Manafort and other cooperating defendants leaves Trump’s legal team somewhat in the dark on what Mueller is pursuing.

Manafort’s lawyers have shared information with the Trump legal team, but according to sources familiar with the case, there is no formal joint defense agreement.

Manafort’s criminal confessions and separate conviction by a jury dealt with his Ukrainian lobbying work and financial dealings largely before 2016. Yet his cooperation is widely expected to include helping the prosecutors build potential criminal cases about coordination between the Russian government and Trump campaign.

Aside from Manafort, three other Trump campaign officials have pleaded guilty to charges. Two of them, campaign deputy Rick Gates and former national security adviser Michael Flynn, also agreed to broadly help Mueller’s team with its investigation and have visited the special counsel’s office to give interviews since their pleas.

Mueller’s team has also been

speaking with Michael Cohen

, Trump’s former personal attorney, who has spent hours with Mueller’s team since his own guilty plea in August, in which he accused President Donald Trump of directing him to commit a crime.

Trump legal team

Meanwhile, Trump’s team is working up answers to Mueller’s questions. Even if the defense team were to sign and deliver their answers soon, Mueller’s office may have follow-up questions that drag out their discussions. The legal team, comprised of personal and White House lawyers Jay Sekulow, Marty and Jane Raskin and Emmet Flood, still hasn’t reached an agreement on whether the President will be interviewed in person or must respond to questions about possible obstruction of justice related to his firing of FBI Director James Comey.

While they’re in investigatory limbo, expectations have grown in Washington legal circles that Mueller will issue a report soon after the November election or even before the end of the year.

When it’s finished, Mueller’s report is expected to explain the decisions of the Justice Department to bring or to decline to bring criminal cases during the course of the investigation. Mueller’s findings and decisions will be confidential, unless higher-up officials in the Justice Department decide to make the report public.

As of now, the Trump legal team operates under the belief that Mueller won’t finish his work without bringing indictments that hit closer to the Trump campaign.

Activity in the DC courthouse

The next campaign contact in Mueller’s crosshairs may be Trump adviser Roger Stone, who’s publicly said he expects to be indicted after nine of his friends and aides spoke to Mueller’s office or received grand jury subpoenas. In the last two weeks, multiple contacts of Stone have been in touch with the special counsel’s office about them providing information, according to CNN’s reporting.

Special counsel prosecutors have also visited the federal courthouse in downtown Washington almost daily.

Once in early September and once in early October, Chief Judge Beryl Howell held hour-long sealed hearings in her courtroom featuring trial and appellate prosecutors from Mueller’s office. Both times, the lawyers opposite the Justice Department declined to share with CNN their names, clients names or law firms. Howell oversees court action related to the federal grand jury that Mueller has used to approve indictments in DC.

Previously she has ordered two witnesses — a real estate agent and a lawyer — to testify against Manafort before the grand jury, and she held Andrew Miller, a Stone associate, in contempt for refusing to comply with a subpoena. The real estate and lawyer orders became public on the eve of Manafort’s indictment last October, and Miller’s attorneys spoke publicly about his subpoena challenge as it was ongoing.

Other times in the courthouse in recent weeks, the Mueller investigators visit the chief judge’s chambers and then clerk’s office, indicating a flurry of court paperwork.

A spokesperson for Howell and the federal court in DC declined to comment on the nature of the recent sealed court activity, as did a spokesman for the special counsel’s office.

As the court action moves forward, Trump himself has said he is working on giving information to Mueller. When asked by the Associated Press on Tuesday if he would sit for an interview with Mueller or simply answer written questions, as his lawyers have agreed to do, Trump said: “You know that’s in process. It’s a tremendous waste of time for the president of the United States.”

CNN’s Sara Murray, Erica Orden, Kara Scannell, Laura Robinson, Em Steck and Sam Fossum contributed to this report.

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Washington (CNN)Ever since reaching a deal with special counsel Robert Mueller, Paul Manafort has kept the Russia prosecutors busy.

The former Trump campaign chairman and his lawyers have visited Mueller’s office in Washington at least nine times in the last four weeks, a strong indication that the special counsel is moving at a steady clip.

September and October at first glance appear to be quiet periods for the investigation, under the Justice Department’s guidelines to avoid public political acts before the midterm elections. But the quiet period has seen a persistent murmur of activity, based on near-daily sightings of Mueller’s prosecutors and sources involved in the investigation.

In addition to Manafort, Mueller’s team has kept interviewing witnesses, gathered a grand jury weekly to meet in Washington on most Fridays, and kicked up other still-secret court action. Plus, the discussions between the President’s legal team and the special counsel’s office have intensified in recent weeks, including after the special counsel sent questions about possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian government. The President’s attorneys are expected to reply to the questions in writing.

People around Trump and other witnesses believe more criminal indictments will come from Mueller.

Attorneys who have dealt with Mueller’s investigators and other officials expect that the special counsel’s efforts, now 17 months in the works, will include an active post-election period a much-anticipated report where Mueller will outline what his investigators decided to prosecute and what they declined.

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who oversees the investigation, on Wednesday called the probe “appropriate and independent,” in an interview with

The Wall Street Journal.

“[A]t the end of the day, the public will have confidence that the cases we brought were warranted by the evidence and that it was an appropriate use of resources.”

A frequent cooperator

At least nine times since he pleaded guilty on September 14, a black Ford SUV has brought Manafort to Mueller’s office in southwest DC around 10 am. Manafort’s lawyers arrive around the same time, waiting in the lobby for the car to arrive. There they remain inside the offices, typically for six hours.

It’s not entirely clear yet what Manafort has shared with prosecutors, and if his interviews check facts that haven’t yet come to light outside of the prosecutors’ own notes. Among the questions, investigators have asked Manafort about his dealings with Russians, according to one source familiar with the matter.

Attorneys for Manafort would not discuss their activities for this story.

The visits amount to what could total dozens of hours of interviews between Mueller’s prosecutors and Manafort since he finalized his plea agreement. Manafort agreed to fully cooperate with the Justice Department as it investigates the Trump campaign and the Russian government’s actions before the 2016 election.

At the same time, Trump has distanced himself from crimes investigators still may be pursuing. He publicly claimed this week that criminal charges so far brought by Mueller’s team have nothing to do with him. Trump attorneys declined to comment for this story.

Other help

The flurry of interviews with Manafort and other cooperating defendants leaves Trump’s legal team somewhat in the dark on what Mueller is pursuing.

Manafort’s lawyers have shared information with the Trump legal team, but according to sources familiar with the case, there is no formal joint defense agreement.

Manafort’s criminal confessions and separate conviction by a jury dealt with his Ukrainian lobbying work and financial dealings largely before 2016. Yet his cooperation is widely expected to include helping the prosecutors build potential criminal cases about coordination between the Russian government and Trump campaign.

Aside from Manafort, three other Trump campaign officials have pleaded guilty to charges. Two of them, campaign deputy Rick Gates and former national security adviser Michael Flynn, also agreed to broadly help Mueller’s team with its investigation and have visited the special counsel’s office to give interviews since their pleas.

Mueller’s team has also been

speaking with Michael Cohen

, Trump’s former personal attorney, who has spent hours with Mueller’s team since his own guilty plea in August, in which he accused President Donald Trump of directing him to commit a crime.

Trump legal team

Meanwhile, Trump’s team is working up answers to Mueller’s questions. Even if the defense team were to sign and deliver their answers soon, Mueller’s office may have follow-up questions that drag out their discussions. The legal team, comprised of personal and White House lawyers Jay Sekulow, Marty and Jane Raskin and Emmet Flood, still hasn’t reached an agreement on whether the President will be interviewed in person or must respond to questions about possible obstruction of justice related to his firing of FBI Director James Comey.

While they’re in investigatory limbo, expectations have grown in Washington legal circles that Mueller will issue a report soon after the November election or even before the end of the year.

When it’s finished, Mueller’s report is expected to explain the decisions of the Justice Department to bring or to decline to bring criminal cases during the course of the investigation. Mueller’s findings and decisions will be confidential, unless higher-up officials in the Justice Department decide to make the report public.

As of now, the Trump legal team operates under the belief that Mueller won’t finish his work without bringing indictments that hit closer to the Trump campaign.

Activity in the DC courthouse

The next campaign contact in Mueller’s crosshairs may be Trump adviser Roger Stone, who’s publicly said he expects to be indicted after nine of his friends and aides spoke to Mueller’s office or received grand jury subpoenas. In the last two weeks, multiple contacts of Stone have been in touch with the special counsel’s office about them providing information, according to CNN’s reporting.

Special counsel prosecutors have also visited the federal courthouse in downtown Washington almost daily.

Once in early September and once in early October, Chief Judge Beryl Howell held hour-long sealed hearings in her courtroom featuring trial and appellate prosecutors from Mueller’s office. Both times, the lawyers opposite the Justice Department declined to share with CNN their names, clients names or law firms. Howell oversees court action related to the federal grand jury that Mueller has used to approve indictments in DC.

Previously she has ordered two witnesses — a real estate agent and a lawyer — to testify against Manafort before the grand jury, and she held Andrew Miller, a Stone associate, in contempt for refusing to comply with a subpoena. The real estate and lawyer orders became public on the eve of Manafort’s indictment last October, and Miller’s attorneys spoke publicly about his subpoena challenge as it was ongoing.

Other times in the courthouse in recent weeks, the Mueller investigators visit the chief judge’s chambers and then clerk’s office, indicating a flurry of court paperwork.

A spokesperson for Howell and the federal court in DC declined to comment on the nature of the recent sealed court activity, as did a spokesman for the special counsel’s office.

As the court action moves forward, Trump himself has said he is working on giving information to Mueller. When asked by the Associated Press on Tuesday if he would sit for an interview with Mueller or simply answer written questions, as his lawyers have agreed to do, Trump said: “You know that’s in process. It’s a tremendous waste of time for the president of the United States.”

CNN’s Sara Murray, Erica Orden, Kara Scannell, Laura Robinson, Em Steck and Sam Fossum contributed to this report.

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Washington (CNN)Ever since reaching a deal with special counsel Robert Mueller, Paul Manafort has kept the Russia prosecutors busy.

The former Trump campaign chairman and his lawyers have visited Mueller’s office in Washington at least nine times in the last four weeks, a strong indication that the special counsel is moving at a steady clip.

September and October at first glance appear to be quiet periods for the investigation, under the Justice Department’s guidelines to avoid public political acts before the midterm elections. But the quiet period has seen a persistent murmur of activity, based on near-daily sightings of Mueller’s prosecutors and sources involved in the investigation.

In addition to Manafort, Mueller’s team has kept interviewing witnesses, gathered a grand jury weekly to meet in Washington on most Fridays, and kicked up other still-secret court action. Plus, the discussions between the President’s legal team and the special counsel’s office have intensified in recent weeks, including after the special counsel sent questions about possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian government. The President’s attorneys are expected to reply to the questions in writing.

People around Trump and other witnesses believe more criminal indictments will come from Mueller.

Attorneys who have dealt with Mueller’s investigators and other officials expect that the special counsel’s efforts, now 17 months in the works, will include an active post-election period a much-anticipated report where Mueller will outline what his investigators decided to prosecute and what they declined.

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who oversees the investigation, on Wednesday called the probe “appropriate and independent,” in an interview with

The Wall Street Journal.

“[A]t the end of the day, the public will have confidence that the cases we brought were warranted by the evidence and that it was an appropriate use of resources.”

A frequent cooperator

At least nine times since he pleaded guilty on September 14, a black Ford SUV has brought Manafort to Mueller’s office in southwest DC around 10 am. Manafort’s lawyers arrive around the same time, waiting in the lobby for the car to arrive. There they remain inside the offices, typically for six hours.

It’s not entirely clear yet what Manafort has shared with prosecutors, and if his interviews check facts that haven’t yet come to light outside of the prosecutors’ own notes. Among the questions, investigators have asked Manafort about his dealings with Russians, according to one source familiar with the matter.

Attorneys for Manafort would not discuss their activities for this story.

The visits amount to what could total dozens of hours of interviews between Mueller’s prosecutors and Manafort since he finalized his plea agreement. Manafort agreed to fully cooperate with the Justice Department as it investigates the Trump campaign and the Russian government’s actions before the 2016 election.

At the same time, Trump has distanced himself from crimes investigators still may be pursuing. He publicly claimed this week that criminal charges so far brought by Mueller’s team have nothing to do with him. Trump attorneys declined to comment for this story.

Other help

The flurry of interviews with Manafort and other cooperating defendants leaves Trump’s legal team somewhat in the dark on what Mueller is pursuing.

Manafort’s lawyers have shared information with the Trump legal team, but according to sources familiar with the case, there is no formal joint defense agreement.

Manafort’s criminal confessions and separate conviction by a jury dealt with his Ukrainian lobbying work and financial dealings largely before 2016. Yet his cooperation is widely expected to include helping the prosecutors build potential criminal cases about coordination between the Russian government and Trump campaign.

Aside from Manafort, three other Trump campaign officials have pleaded guilty to charges. Two of them, campaign deputy Rick Gates and former national security adviser Michael Flynn, also agreed to broadly help Mueller’s team with its investigation and have visited the special counsel’s office to give interviews since their pleas.

Mueller’s team has also been

speaking with Michael Cohen

, Trump’s former personal attorney, who has spent hours with Mueller’s team since his own guilty plea in August, in which he accused President Donald Trump of directing him to commit a crime.

Trump legal team

Meanwhile, Trump’s team is working up answers to Mueller’s questions. Even if the defense team were to sign and deliver their answers soon, Mueller’s office may have follow-up questions that drag out their discussions. The legal team, comprised of personal and White House lawyers Jay Sekulow, Marty and Jane Raskin and Emmet Flood, still hasn’t reached an agreement on whether the President will be interviewed in person or must respond to questions about possible obstruction of justice related to his firing of FBI Director James Comey.

While they’re in investigatory limbo, expectations have grown in Washington legal circles that Mueller will issue a report soon after the November election or even before the end of the year.

When it’s finished, Mueller’s report is expected to explain the decisions of the Justice Department to bring or to decline to bring criminal cases during the course of the investigation. Mueller’s findings and decisions will be confidential, unless higher-up officials in the Justice Department decide to make the report public.

As of now, the Trump legal team operates under the belief that Mueller won’t finish his work without bringing indictments that hit closer to the Trump campaign.

Activity in the DC courthouse

The next campaign contact in Mueller’s crosshairs may be Trump adviser Roger Stone, who’s publicly said he expects to be indicted after nine of his friends and aides spoke to Mueller’s office or received grand jury subpoenas. In the last two weeks, multiple contacts of Stone have been in touch with the special counsel’s office about them providing information, according to CNN’s reporting.

Special counsel prosecutors have also visited the federal courthouse in downtown Washington almost daily.

Once in early September and once in early October, Chief Judge Beryl Howell held hour-long sealed hearings in her courtroom featuring trial and appellate prosecutors from Mueller’s office. Both times, the lawyers opposite the Justice Department declined to share with CNN their names, clients names or law firms. Howell oversees court action related to the federal grand jury that Mueller has used to approve indictments in DC.

Previously she has ordered two witnesses — a real estate agent and a lawyer — to testify against Manafort before the grand jury, and she held Andrew Miller, a Stone associate, in contempt for refusing to comply with a subpoena. The real estate and lawyer orders became public on the eve of Manafort’s indictment last October, and Miller’s attorneys spoke publicly about his subpoena challenge as it was ongoing.

Other times in the courthouse in recent weeks, the Mueller investigators visit the chief judge’s chambers and then clerk’s office, indicating a flurry of court paperwork.

A spokesperson for Howell and the federal court in DC declined to comment on the nature of the recent sealed court activity, as did a spokesman for the special counsel’s office.

As the court action moves forward, Trump himself has said he is working on giving information to Mueller. When asked by the Associated Press on Tuesday if he would sit for an interview with Mueller or simply answer written questions, as his lawyers have agreed to do, Trump said: “You know that’s in process. It’s a tremendous waste of time for the president of the United States.”

CNN’s Sara Murray, Erica Orden, Kara Scannell, Laura Robinson, Em Steck and Sam Fossum contributed to this report.

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