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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    What Paul Manafort's expensive wardrobe suggests about him

    Paul Manafort’s trial is in day four in Virginia. The former Trump campaign chairman is facing bank and tax fraud charges. The proceeding are full of accounting talk, documents, and bank records.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Aug 3, 2018 • 1 min read

    Paul Manafort’s trial is in day four in Virginia. The former Trump campaign chairman is facing bank and tax fraud charges. The proceeding are full of accounting talk, documents, and bank records. But it does get juicy -- in the form of a his luxury wardrobe. It includes a $15,000 ostrich jacket, and another coat of python skin.

    Jackets included in the government's exhibits admitted into evidence, at the trial of

    President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, are seen in this

    combination image of pictures released from Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office

    in Washington, DC, U.S. on August 1, 2018.

    Courtesy Special Counsel's Office/Handout via REUTERS

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