Thanks, jjotto.
Now I’m wondering what happened with Paul Manafort. Didn’t the DOJ investigate him years before but declined to prosecute, and then changed their mind years later? I don’t know if there was an official report, though.
Note that this is from the IG report. Horowitz isn’t deciding to charge, he’s reporting what he was told by the Criminal Division when they reviewed his preliminary report.
US attorneys had an open but inactive file on Manafort. Mueller exploited that.
Other IG reports have similar endings, but sometimes there’s no indication of any action or not. When there’s no note, something could be up. The bottom line is that misleading the IG by anybody is certainly against the rules and probably illegal.