United States v. Manafort

T.S. Ellis, III, United States District Judge

At issue in this multi-count bank and tax fraud prosecution is defendant's motion to suppress evidence recovered from a search of his residence in Alexandria, Virginia. Specifically, defendant contends that the warrant authorizing the search failed to satisfy the Fourth Amendment's requirements (i) because the warrant did not clearly describe the evidence to be seized and (ii) because the scope of the warrant *799was not limited by the probable cause on which the warrant was based. Defendant also argues that the execution of the search violated his…