Posted on 07/24/2018 8:42:52 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Special counsel Robert Mueller's prosecutors reportedly plan to call witnesses from the FBI, IRS and Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network during former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort's trial.
Politico reported that one of the lead investigators made the announcement at a pretrial hearing on Tuesday as the judge presiding over the case laid out broad parameters to potential jurors, including a timeline of Manafort's alleged crimes.
On Monday, U.S. District Court Judge T.S. Ellis III ordered Mueller to turn over its full witness list of about 30 people, Politico noted. The news site reports that Ellis said on Tuesday that the list would be made public by the end of the week.
Uzo Asonye, a Mueller prosecutor, reportedly argued on Tuesday that the witness list is not normally disclosed before a trial.
“Yes, I know, but this isn’t a typical case,” Ellis responded.
Ellis on Monday delayed Manafort's trial in Virginia until July 31. It will be the first in Mueller's broad probe into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
President Trump's former campaign chairman is accused of money laundering and failing to register as a foreign agent before he joined Trump's campaign.
He has pleaded not guilty to all charges.
On Monday, Ellis revealed the identities of the five witnesses who were granted immunity to testify against Manafort. The witnesses, each connected to financial institutions, are James Brennan, Donna Duggan, Conor O'Brien, Cindy Laporta and Dennis Raico.
I have seen no such report about the other 25 of those 30 witnesses.
YES!! What INNOCENT person gets IMMUNITY??
Last night Tucker said his sources we’re reporting on the DC trial.
Is James Brennan any relation to John Brennan??
True, but luckily the trial isn't in DC. Northern Virginia, while trending blue, has a very different population than the District.
Good questions.
How can we dig into each one of these “witnesses” backgrounds? ANYONE?
I know one way not to, don't listen to the media.
Manafort was using Trump.
If convicted, he will receive no pardon or commutation.
Manafort could have been paid to be a plant or maybe he was blackmailed considering the shady things he was involved with. Either way, I do think there is more to his story. Carter Page was a dupe too, an unwilling one though, I don’t think he knew he would be used for a FISA app. and was double crossed by somebody, FBI probably, trying to get Trump.
Manafort is a political prisoner. Where is Amnesty International? I guess they closed up[ shop.
Tis a long line of IRS and FBI folks who also desperately need immunity. Mueller the multi-tasker can get them immunity, torque the squeeze on Manafort to make up stuff vs. Trump, and be beholden to the media/deep state narrative pre-elections all in one fell swoop.
Could you imagine if Manafort were a democrat?
A gay black democrat with questionable citizenship?
Please address him respectfully as Mr. President please.
Can they demand that ALL EVIDENCE be turned over to the defense for discovery?
This could get interesting...
Refusals to answer can result in acquittal.
It would be shame if that timeline overlapped Lois Learner's tenure at IRS......
Where is podesta? Did q lie again?
Not calling louis Lerner to the stand along with her hard-drive destroying underlings?
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