The Associated Press first reported Friday on the departure of Downing (pictured right) from Miller & Chevalier, a firm he joined in June 2012 after serving as a senior litigation counsel in the Justice Department’s tax division.

Manafort previously dropped his counsel Reginald Brown at Wilmer and brought in Miller & Chevalier on Aug. 10. At the time, Manafort’s spokesman did not give a reason for the change.

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