Paul Manafort has pleaded not guilty to 18 counts of bank and tax fraud and failing to disclose foreign bank accounts

The chief executive officer of a small Chicago bank that approved $16 million in loans to former Donald Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was seeking a post in the new administration, a witness has testified

Dennis Raico, a former Federal Savings Bank executive testifying under immunity, said the bank's chief executive, Stephen Calk, expressed interest in such posts as Treasury secretary or Housing and Urban Development secretary.

Mr Manafort later asked the incoming administration to consider tapping Mr Calk for secretary of the Army, according to testimony earlier in the week. Mr Calk, a retired Army officer and helicopter pilot, did not get the job.

Mr Raico was one of several witnesses scheduled for Friday as the trial resumed after a recess that lasted into the mid-afternoon. He and James Brennan, a Federal Savings executive, were granted immunity against prosecution by Special Counsel Robert Mueller before testifying.

The witnesses were the latest in the government's case against Mr Manafort, who faces 18 felony counts of bank fraud, tax fraud and failing to disclose about 30 foreign bank accounts.

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Four of Mr Manafort's felony counts involve the $16 million of loans prosecutors have said were extended by Federal Savings in late 2016 and early 2017. Mr Manafort denies all the charges against him.

The bank and Mr Calk, who was named an economic adviser to the Mr Trump campaign in August 2016, did not respond to requests for comment.

Rick Gates, the deputy chairman of Trump's inaugural committee, who also worked on his campaign, testified earlier this week that Mr Manafort had told him to ask about making Mr Calk secretary of the Army.