One more time: The Manafort case has nothing to do with Trump or the campaign.
.... He’s connected to Trump .... Therefore ..... “DIE TRUMP DIE” ...... and ........... “IMPEACH 45” ........ Is the calm ... common sense ... civil response by the left .....
Note that the “potential witnesses” refers to Manafort’s dealings with Ukraine, again nothing to do with Trump.
>>One more time: The Manafort case has
>>nothing to do with Trump or the campaign.
The Manafort Indictment: Not Much There
Andrew C. McCarthy
October 30, 2017
Do not be fooled by the “Conspiracy against the United States” heading on Count One (page 23 of the indictment). This case has nothing to do with what Democrats and the media call “the attack on our democracy” (i.e., the Kremlin’s meddling in the 2016 election, supposedly in “collusion” with the Trump campaign).
Essentially, Manafort and his associate, Richard W. Gates, are charged with (a) conspiring to conceal from the U.S. government about $75 million they made as unregistered foreign agents for Ukraine, years before the 2016 election (mainly, from 2006 through 2014), and (b) a money-laundering conspiracy.
There are twelve counts in all, but those are the two major allegations. The so-called conspiracy against the United States mainly involves Manafort’s and Gates’s alleged failure to file Treasury Department forms required by the Bank Secrecy Act. Specifically, Americans who hold a stake in foreign bank accounts must file what’s known as an “FBAR” (foreign bank account report) in any year in which, at any point, the balance in the account exceeds $10,000.
Federal law also requires disclosure of foreign accounts on annual income-tax returns. Manafort and Gates are said to have controlled foreign accounts through which their Ukrainian political-consulting income sluiced, and to have failed to file accurate FBARs and tax returns.
In addition, they allegedly failed to register as foreign agents from 2008 through 2014 and made false statements when they belatedly registered. ...”
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/453244/manafort-indictment-no-signs-trump-russia-collusion