Manafort Lawyer’s Sidewalk Speech Draws Trial Judge’s Rebuke

By Andrew Harris and Tom Schoenberg, Bloomberg News

The judge overseeing Paul Manafort’s tax and money-laundering case in Washington had a stern warning for his lawyer: Stop with the sidewalk speeches.

“This is a criminal trial and not a public-relations campaign,” U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson said at a hearing Thursday. She admonished lawyers to “do their talking in the courtroom, and the pleadings, and not on the courthouse steps.” Jackson said she might impose a gag order and told the lawyers to submit objections -- if any -- by Nov. 7.

Manafort, the former chairman of the Trump ...