Posted on 06/04/2018 6:12:30 PM PDT by Magnatron
President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, who has been indicted by U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller, attempted to tamper with potential witnesses, Mueller said in a court filing on Monday.
Mueller, who is investigating possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, asked the judge overseeing the case in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to revoke or revise an order releasing Manafort ahead of his trial.
Manafort was released to home confinement after his arraignment in October.
Mueller has indicted Manafort in federal courts in Virginia and Washington, D.C., with an array of allegations from money-laundering and failing to register as a foreign agent, to bank and tax fraud. Manafort has pleaded not guilty.
FBI Special Agent Brock Domin, in a declaration filed with Mueller's motion, said Manafort had attempted to call, text and send encrypted messages in February to two people from "The Hapsburg Group," a firm he worked with to promote the interests of Ukraine.
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He’s not allowed to talk to witnesses? They’re just trying to harass him by locking him up. “Investigation is ongoing” yeah ok.
Let the insanity roll on.
“Potential witnesses”
So talking to basically anybody.
One more time: The Manafort case has nothing to do with Trump or the campaign.
Any response to this by Manafort or his attorneys?
Obersturmbannfuhrer Mueller should be offered a Luger and a cigarette.
Mueller is a sadistic power freak.
Sessions, whose blindside recusal gifted us with this never-ending witch hunt, is a disgrace.
Only the cops and prosecutors get to tamper with witnesses.
The FBI is claiming it was an attempted communication, not that any contact was actually made.
Drudge siren is up!
The prosecutors are the only ones allowed to threaten witnesses (threats of prosecution) and feed them false information.
“Potential witnesses”
So talking to basically anybody.
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Yep.
It seems like the FBI is trying to smear Manafort without any solid evidence.
The only person I’ve heard claim that they talk to Manafort regularly is Roger Stone. But “witness tampering” has a better ring to it.
Reason # 34,729 to NOT to use 'the cloud',.....
especially if a guy like Mueller knows you exist.
Has the FBI communicated with these potential witnesses? Do we have recordings of their conversations and their efforts to get the witnesses to testify as they want? I have to tell you that I have a lot more trust in Manafort than I do in the FBI and DOJ in whom I have no trust whatsoever.
Drudge is dead to me.
The communications they are claiming constitute “witness tampering” happened in February. Why did they wait until June to file this motion? Distraction from something happening soon?
Yeah Drudge runs preposterous leftist headlines when there is much more important news. Schultz 2020? Really?
No, I think you are wrong about what they are claiming.
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