How many of Donald Trump's closest advisers have been convicted and who are they?
DONALD Trump's Presidential campaign manager and longtime personal fixer have been found guilty in court.
But what laws did they break, who are they, and who else has been jailed? Here's our lowdown…
Paul Manafort
Paul Manafort was Donald Trump's campaign Chairman from June 20 2016 to August 17 2016.
The charges against him include: conspiracy against the United States, conspiracy to launder money, failure to file reports of a foreign bank and financial accounts and being an unregistered agent of foreign principal.
Manafort was found guilty of five tax fraud charges, one charge of hiding foreign bank accounts and two counts of bank fraud.
The charges carry a maximum of 80 years in prison.
Michael Cohen
In August 2018 Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen admitted breaching campaign finance regulations by paying two women for their silence over alleged affairs "at the direction of US president" yesterday.
The New York attorney, 51, told a court he arranged payments ahead of the 2016 election to silence porn star Stormy Daniels and ex-Playboy model Karen McDougal.
He made the statements on Tuesday after admitting to eight criminal charges, including tax evasion, bank fraud and campaign finance violations.
Cohen did not name Trump in court but his lawyer, Lanny Davis, said he was talking about the president.
George Papadopoulos
In October 2018, George Papadopoulos, a foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign, admitted lying to the FBIabout getting “dirt” on rival Hillary Clinton.
He had misled agents over his links to Russia.
The charges against Papadopoulos stem directly from his contact with a British professor who said Russia had dirt on Mrs Clinton.
He was said to have been aware of the professor’s high-level links to the Kremlin but played them down.
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5Michael Flynn
In December 2017, ex-National Security adviser Michael Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to FBI investigators over his Russian contacts.
He had been charged with lying about his private discussions with former Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
Prosecutors have said Flynn, who was a senior adviser to Trump before he took office, lied to the FBI when he said he had not discussed sanctions imposed by Barack Obama with the then ambassador.
Flynn is also said to have lied when he told investigators he did not recall the ambassador telling him that Moscow had chosen to moderate its response to the sanctions at his request.
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