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Hello and welcome to our live blog coverage of an appearance by Paul Manafort, the former Donald Trump campaign chairman, in district court in Washington DC. The office of special counsel Robert Mueller has announced it will be a “plea agreement hearing”.

It’s set to begin at 11am ET before US district judge Amy Berman Jackson at the DC federal courthouse on 3rd and Constitution.

Manafort, 69, is expected to plead guilty to charges of conspiracy against the United States (money laundering, tax fraud, failing to file Foreign Bank Account Reports, violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act, and lying and misrepresenting to the Department of Justice) and a conspiracy to obstruct justice (witness tampering).

It was unclear whether Manafort had agreed to cooperate with prosecutors as part of the plea deal. Last month a Virginia jury convicted Manafort on eight felony fraud charges.