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This is a timeline of events in 2019 related to investigations into links between associates of Donald Trump and Russian officials that are suspected of being inappropriate. It follows the timeline of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections and the timelines of investigations in 2017 and 2018.

Relevant individuals and organizations[edit]

This section is transcluded from Timeline of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections. (edit | history)

Seth Abramson estimated more than 400 people could be listed here.[1]

A–E[edit]

F–K[edit]

L–Q[edit]

R–Z[edit]

2019[edit]

January[edit]

  • January 4: District Judge Beryl A. Howell extends the term of Mueller's grand jury in Washington, D.C., for an unknown amount of time. The grand jury's term was due to expire on January 5.[9]
  • January 7: D.C. District Judge Dabney L. Friedrich strongly rebukes the attorneys for Concord Management and Consulting for repeatedly making personal attacks on Mueller's team. The rebuke was triggered by a January 4 filing that questions the trustworthiness of Mueller's office. Friedrich called Concord's recent filings "unprofessional, inappropriate, and ineffective," and said their "relentless personal attacks" would not affect her decision.[10]
D.C. District Court of Appeals decision against a "Corporation" from "Country A"
  • January 8:
    • The US Attorney for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) indicts Natalia Veselnitskaya, known for her participation in the meeting in the Trump Tower with top campaign officials on June 9, 2016, for obstruction of justice in an unrelated case.[11] The prosecution alleges that while defending Russian investment company Prevezon Holdings in a New York court, she helped Russian Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika fabricate evidence supporting Prevezon's defense.[12]
    • Paul Manafort's attorneys file response to Mueller's accusations of malfeasance to the DC judge.[13] Portions of the filing that were meant to be redacted are still readable because of incorrectly applied formatting in the document. The redacted portions reveal that prosecutors accused Manafort of lying because he denied and then admitted when prompted that he met with Kilimnik in Madrid, discussed a proposed Ukrainian peace plan with Kilimnik on several occasions, and shared polling data with Kilimnik while working for the Trump campaign.[14]
    • The New York Times reports that while Manafort worked for the Trump campaign he provided Kilimnik with internal polling data for Kilimnik to pass on to Ukrainian oligarchs Serhiy Lyovochkin and Rinat Akhmetov, both of whom Manafort previously did work for in Ukraine.[15]
    • The Supreme Court removes without comment a temporary stay in the legal battle by a "Corporation" from "Country A" fighting a grand jury subpoena. The stay had paused the accrual of fines by the company while it appealed the District Court of Appeals decision from December 18, 2018. This is believed to be the first U.S. Supreme Court decision related to the Mueller investigation.[16]
    • The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals (D.C. Cir.) issues its full opinion in the appeal by a "Corporation" from "Country A" against a grand jury subpoena. The judges write, "[the company] failed to satisfy its burden of showing that Country A's law would prohibit complying with the subpoena, we agree with the district court that enforcing the subpoena is neither unreasonable nor oppressive." The company immediately appeals the decision to the Supreme Court.[16]
  • January 10: The first Russia-related hearing of the newly Democratic majority House takes place: Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin testifies in a closed-door hearing on the Treasury Department's decision to ease sanctions on companies aligned with Oleg Deripaska.[17] After the hearing, Speaker Nancy Pelosi calls it "one of the worst classified briefings we’ve received from the Trump administration." She says they spent "most of the time reading an unclassified document." Other Democrats echoed Pelosi.[18]
  • January 11:
    • Mother Jones reports that the NRA appears to have coordinated ad buys with Republican candidates in at least three U.S. Senate races. Like the scheme reportedly used by the NRA and the Trump campaign, National Media Research, Planning and Placement (NMRPP) CFO Jon Ferrell placed scores of ad buys on behalf of the three senate campaigns and the NRA to air ads within minutes of each other on the same local television stations. The three senate campaigns were Senator Richard Burr's 2016 reelection campaign in North Carolina, Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley's successful 2018 campaign to unseat Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill, and the unsuccessful 2018 campaign by Montana state auditor Matt Rosendale to unseat Montana Senator Jon Tester.[19]
    • The New York Times reports that the FBI opened counterintelligence and criminal investigations against Trump a few days after he fired Comey in May 2017. They were alarmed by Trump's actions and concerned that he may have been working for Russia against American interests. The investigations were eventually combined and taken over by Mueller.[20]
    • Giuliani tells The Hill that Trump's legal team should be allowed to make corrections to Mueller's final report before it is seen by Congress or the public.[21]
Trump states on January 14, 2019 "I never worked for Russia and you know that answer better than anybody. I never worked for Russia. Not only did I never work for Russia I think it's a disgrace that you even asked that question."
  • January 12: The Washington Post reports that Trump ordered his translator for the second Putin meeting at the G20 summit in Hamburg on July 7, 2017, to hand over their notes and not discuss the meeting. The Hamburg meeting was one of five Trump-Putin interactions where no detailed records exist.[22]
  • January 14:
    • The New York Times reports on the unusually large expenses claimed by the Trump inauguration fund.[23]
    • The Daily Beast reports that Mueller's office and the SDNY are investigating a breakfast meeting involving Flynn, Nunes, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, and 50–60 other foreign officials at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., on January 18, 2017. This line of inquiry is part of their investigations into the Trump inauguration fund.[24][25]
FBI special agent Jeffrey Weiland's statement on Manafort's breach of his plea agreement.
  • January 15:
    • Mueller's team requests a delay in Richard Gates' sentencing because he is still helping with their investigations.[26]
    • Mueller's team files FBI special agent Jeffrey Weyland's partially redacted statement detailing the ways in which they believe Manafort lied to them, including about his contacts with Trump administration officials and his work to help people get positions in the administration. 157 pages of mostly redacted exhibits are included in the filing. They allege Manafort made contradictory statements to the Mueller team on several occasions as well as to the grand jury contradicting himself, other witnesses, and documents.[27]
    • William Barr appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee for his confirmation hearing to become the next Attorney General. Barr refuses to commit to recusing himself from the Mueller investigation or release Mueller's eventual report. He also states that he would not fire Mueller if asked to do so by Trump without good cause. Barr circulated a memo among Trump administration members in 2018 in which he criticized the Mueller investigation.[28]
Skadden, Arps, Slate Meagher & Flom settlement agreement
  • January 17:
    • The Justice Department announces that Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom agreed to pay the U.S. government $4.6 million and retroactively register as a foreign agent for the work they performed for Manafort and the Ukrainian government. $4.6 million is the amount of money Skadden received from the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice and Manafort's offshore bank accounts. In the settlement agreement, which details the actions taken by Skadden on the behalf of Manafort and Ukraine, attorney and former White House counsel Gregory B. Craig is referred to as "Partner-1".[29]
    • BuzzFeed News reports that Cohen gave Trump, Trump Jr., and Ivanka Trump regular and "very detailed" updates about the Trump Tower Moscow project during the 2016 campaign, including that he was discussing the project with Russian government officials. They also report that Cohen told Mueller's team that Trump directed him to lie to Congress about the project.[30]
  • January 18: Mueller spokesman Peter Carr refutes some of the information in the January 17 BuzzFeed News article that claimed Trump directed Cohen to lie to Congress. He says, "BuzzFeed’s description of specific statements to the special counsel’s office, and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office, regarding Cohen’s congressional testimony are not accurate." BuzzFeed top editor Ben Smith responds, "We stand by our reporting and the sources who informed it, and we urge the Special Counsel to make clear what he’s disputing."[31]
  • January 22: The Supreme Court granted a motion from the "Corporation" from "Country A" to file its appeal under seal in its case challenging a subpoena from Mueller's grand jury. A redacted version of the petition will be made public.[32]
  • January 23: Cohen delays his Congressional testimony, citing threats to his family.[33] Senate Intelligence Committee subpoenas Cohen to testify in closed session on February 12.[34]
  • January 25: Trump campaign associate Roger Stone is arrested by the FBI in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on 7 counts of indictments; one count of obstruction of an official proceeding, five counts of false statements, and one count of witness tampering.[35][36]
  • January 28:
    • Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker announces that the Special Counsel investigation is "close to being completed".[37]
    • Stone pleads not guilty in DC courtroom.
Roger Stone indictment for one count of obstruction of an official proceeding, five counts of false statements, and one count of witness tampering
  • January 30: As part of the prosecution of Concord Management and Consulting, a court filing states that Russians leaked confidential evidence collected by the Mueller investigation.[39]

February[edit]

  • February 1: Stone appears in court. The judge warns she may impose a gag order.[40] A court filing by Mueller's prosecutors reveals that the FBI seized "voluminous and complex" evidence from Stone's home in Florida, containing emails and financial records.[41]
  • February 4:
    • During a closed-door DC District Court hearing regarding Manafort, judge Amy Berman Jackson postpones his sentencing date from March 5 to March 13.[42] Also during the hearing, Mueller prosecutor Andrew Weissman tells Jackson that Manafort's lying to investigators about his communications with Konstantin Kilimnik "goes, I think, very much to the heart of what the special counsel’s office is investigating," suggesting that Mueller's office continued to examine a possible agreement between Russia and the Trump campaign.[43]
    • Federal prosecutors in Manhattan subpoenaed documents concerning donors and finances from Trump's inaugural committee. Investigators are particularly interested in potential conspiracy to defraud the U.S., mail fraud, false statements, wire fraud, election fraud, foreign donations, and money laundering.[44]
    • Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York have requested interviews with executives at the Trump Organization.[45][46]
  • February 5:
    • Thomas J. Barrack Jr., chairman of Trump's inaugural committee, confirmed to the Associated Press that he was interviewed by the Mueller team in 2017 but said he was not the target of the investigation.[47]
    • The Democratic-controlled House Intelligence Committee votes to refer dozens of witness testimony transcripts and thousands of other documents to Mueller's office. Committee Republicans had blocked Democrat efforts to release the documents to Mueller's office when Republicans controlled the Committee in 2018.[48]
    • Adam Schiff, chair of the House Intelligence Committee, postpones Cohen’s testimony scheduled for February 8 to February 28.[49]
  • February 8:
    • The House Judiciary Committee holds a hearing on Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker, focusing primarily on the Mueller probe and his relation to it.[50][51]
  • February 12: Cohen scheduled to testify under subpoena at a Senate Intelligence Committee closed session.[34]
  • February 28: Cohen is scheduled to testify in closed session before the House Intelligence Committee.[52]

March[edit]

  • March 6: Cohen is scheduled to report for prison for his three-year sentence.[33]
  • March 13: Manafort is scheduled to be sentenced in DC District Court on the two charges he pleaded guilty to: conspiracy and witness tampering.[53]
  • March 18: Flynn is scheduled to be sentenced.[54]

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