A federal judge Monday canceled former Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort's sentencing in his Virginia case, which was scheduled for Feb. 8, according to a filing.
U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis wrote that Manafort's "current dispute" in a separate federal case in Washington, D.C., makes it "prudent and appropriate to delay sentencing in this case."
Manafort had pleaded guilty in the D.C. case, and had agreed to cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller as part of his ongoing probe of Russia's election meddling and possible collusion with the Trump campaign.
But the plea deal collapsed after the Mueller's team accused Manafort of repeatedly lying in breach of that agreement.
Both the D.C. and Virginia cases were based on charges lodged by Mueller. Manafort's charges were largely related to work he performed for a pro-Russia political party in Ukraine years before joining then-candidate Donald Trump's 2016 presidential bid.
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