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Special counsel Robert Mueller may raise emails from a former Bernie Sanders campaign aide in the trial of Paul Manafort next week.

A list of potential exhibits the special prosecutor may use in the Manafort trial next week, which was filed in court Wednesday, includes 16 items involving Democratic strategist Tad Devine.

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The communications between Devine and Manafort are among more than 400 exhibits Mueller listed that could come up during the trial in federal court in Virginia.

Manafort, who served as then-candidate Donald Trump’s campaign chairman for several months in 2016, is facing charges of bank and tax fraud.

Devine, a longtime Democratic player in Washington, worked as Sanders’ chief strategist during the Vermont independent’s 2016 presidential bid.

Before working with Sanders, Devine worked with Manafort on Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych’s 2010 campaign, according to Politico. He reportedly decreased his involvement after Yanukovych’s election.

The exhibits listed in the court filing including communications between Devine, Manafort and others over several years stretching from 2006 and 2014.

One email on the list from September 2010 involved six people, including Devine and Manafort, was regarding “Talking Points,” according to court papers.

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A Sanders spokesperson referred comment to Devine. A call to Devine’s consulting firm was not immediately returned Thursday evening.

Asked whether Sanders has been interviewed in the special counsel probe, Sanders spokesperson Josh Miller-Lewis said he has not.

“He has not nor is there any reason he would be,” he said.

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