Posted on 06/15/2018 9:08:14 AM PDT by Hadean
Update: Paul Manafort is heading to jail, ahead of his trials for bank fraud and money laundering, Bloomberg News reports.
A judge in Washington revoked Manaforts bail Friday after being told by Special Counsel Robert Muellers lawyers that Manafort, Donald Trumps former campaign chairman, attempted to tamper with witnesses for his trial. Manafort has "abused" the trust placed in him six months ago, the judge said.
Previous report:
Paul Manafort could be locked up as soon as Friday if a judge agrees with Special Counsel Robert Muellers argument that he tried to tamper with witnesses while under house arrest.
Manafort, a former campaign chairman for President Donald Trump, arrived at the federal courthouse in Washington just before 9:30 a.m. He is accused of money laundering and acting as an unregistered foreign agent of Ukraine. But what could land him in jail as he awaits trial are new charges relating to witness tampering.
U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson will have the final say after considering arguments from Muellers team and Manaforts lawyers. She could also impose more stringent bail terms than Manaforts $10 million bond with electronic monitoring.
She absolutely could lock him up, said former federal prosecutor Courtney Oliva. I think hes got an uphill battle, and its likely hell get sent to jail. If hes not, its because hes not your run-of-the-mill defendant, and shes just being very careful.
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The list of people in politics who are eligible for jail and trials more than Manafort is more pages than in the tax code.
From Hillary/Obama/Holder/Rice/Lerner/Rahm/BClinton and on and on.
“Justice” is used as a political tool and isn’t anywhere to be found in it’s original purpose.
The left is begging for a revolution.
Buy stock in pitchforks and tar and feathers.
Serious mistake
The precedent is detrimental to a host of coming indictees
BS
"... Hillary et al are free as birds."
I don’t quite know what to think about this. But more and more I am beginning to think that many of these maneuvers are part of the plan. Not all. The Deep State still pulls a lot of dirty tricks. But I believe I am seeing a lot more scripted theater that has a definite purpose. Some is designed to draw our attention toward something, some to draw our attention away. Some is designed to head fake the Deep State. Some is designed to reassure normal Americans.
Trump has shown us that he will pardon those who are innocent. He has carefully picked a few to pardon to show us where his intentions are.
I am confident that if Manafort is a bad actor, he’s going down. If he’s innocent (and possibly, literally a good actor), Trump will take care of him. I’m agnostic on which side he’s on. I’ve been head faked by Trump too many times! (all for a good purpose)
“Trumps supporters are all poor to middle class, uneducated, lazy POS that think he will magically grant them jobs for doing nothing. They probably didn’t watch the debates, aren’t fully educated on his policies, and are stupidly wrapped up in his unmerited enthusiasm.”
This is today’s FBI.
Vote accordingly this Fall, because it is the only power we have left to destroy these MFs.
The Public will not hear that unless we start sharing it with Tweets, Facebook, etc., The treasonous media only wants to push the attempted coup.
No, that is what a dictator looks like. Erdogan is a swamp creature. And many of the people in our agencies are good guys. We are America, not Turkey. We need to drain the swamp, but precise surgical instruments always work better than grenades when dealing with this sort of thing.
I haven’t read Lewandowski’s book, but Corey appears to be a very credible guy. I do know that Paul had experience in delegate handing and he was very effective at the critical time. They likely needed him in that position thru May- 2016.
Without insider political (R) experience and connections, it would be difficult to combat interior threats from the GOPe. Manafort delivered the votes when and where it was needed. He warded off dozens of republican back-stabbing whining weasels and jackals. And, I thank him for that, but don’t care to know the details of his plan.
I doubt Manafort, a multi-millionaire many times over, accepted the campaign job strictly for financial gain. So it’s not surprising that there was no severance package or benefits like Corey L. collected. In comparison to what we all know about the rest of the politicians, Paul is no more unsavory or savory then the rest of the crew. The enforcers just select persons for political destruction to demonize and prosecute.
Bobbys gotta have something to show for $17 million.
Muller will get Manafort’s trial delayed until never. He’s pretty much facing a life sentence with Muller running the show. It will take a pardon to get him out of jail. This is the way the police state functions.
>>Mulehead will be in prison soon.
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Only if patriots massively descend on D.C. NOW and put a stop to this hardcore tyranny.
Sadly, I don’t think most people will do what it will take.
Paul Manafort = Tommy Robinson
Welcome to Worldwide Tyranny
But Constitution, Constitution, Constitution.
Hard to use the Constitution to reinstate law since the Constitution allowed itself to be ignored, without consequence.
Exactly
If you don’t like that example, then we need to do with the swamp (the oligarchs power structure - the top of the CFR and Trilateral Commission, etc) what Egypt did to the Muslim Brotherhood. They executed them.
Well, not quite . . .
“Who remembers?... The delegate THIEF in Chief Ted Cruz.”
You need medication.
The time to stop hijacking threads and making them about your Ted Derangement Syndrome ended more than a year ago.
“Who remembers?... The delegate THIEF in Chief Ted Cruz.”
You need medication.
The time to stop hijacking threads and making them about your Ted Derangement Syndrome ended more than a year ago.
I think there is truth to that.
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