Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort's Wednesday hearing is just one of several key Mueller-related events coming up this week. | Alex Wong/Getty Images Legal Manafort gets Tuesday court date to discuss lying allegations The hearing is just one of several key Mueller-related events coming up this week.

A federal judge in Washington has set a hearing for Wednesday on prosecutors’ request to have former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort declared in breach of his plea agreement for repeatedly lying to special counsel Robert Mueller’s office and the FBI.

In an order Monday, U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson asked both sides in the case to appear before her for a scheduling conference at 3 p.m. Tuesday.


Jackson also lifted a Wednesday deadline that Manafort’s attorneys faced to rebut a submission from Mueller’s team last week detailing a variety of incidences prosecutors contend Manafort lied in the wake of his September agreement to plead guilty to charges of unregistered foreign lobbying and money laundering.

The deal contained a provision to which the longtime lobbyist and political consultant agreed to cooperate fully with investigators.

In Mueller’s filing Friday, prosecutors said Manafort lied about his outreach to unnamed Trump administration officials. Manafort was also accused of lying about his dealings with a co-defendant and former colleague in his political consulting work in Ukraine, Konstantin Kilimnik. Prosecutors have said the FBI suspects Kilimnik, who remains at large, of having ties to a Russian intelligence operative.

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Prosecutors could seek to file new charges against Manafort over the alleged lies, but so far they are suggesting that Manafort may be exposed to a harsher sentence and should lose the benefit of certain terms under the plea deal.

It was unclear what prompted Jackson to lift the deadline for the defense and instead schedule a hearing to discuss how to move forward in the case. There was no public indication in the court docket of a request to adjust the schedule. It’s possible the judge concluded it was unfair to give the defense just three business days to respond to the prosecution’s claims.

Manafort's lawyers said in an earlier court filing that their client had done his best to provide useful and truthful answers to prosecutors' questions during the dozen debriefing sessions since he pleaded guilty three months ago.

Jackson said Manafort, who currently is in a detention center in Alexandria, Virginia, need not appear at the session Wednesday if he files a written waiver with the court. The former Trump aide took the judge up on the offer in a motion filed Monday afternoon. Manafort awaits sentencing in a Washington, D.C. case related to lobbying work for Ukraine, and a Virginia case in which he faces bank and tax fraud charges.

Wednesday's hearing is just one of several key Mueller-related events coming up this week.

Longtime Trump lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen is scheduled to be sentenced on Wednesday, after pleading guilty to charges of fraud and lying to investigators. Important court filings are also due in the case of former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI.

Separately, more court documents are expected in the case of suspected Russian spy Mariia Butina, who has not been directly linked to the Mueller probe.