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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Groupthink lemmings all
Uhhhhh, these Hapsburg Group people...are they American citizens? If not, then Nelson (The Simpson’s) will be in SCRM’s office.
I think you meant “palpable”; desperation definitely does not taste good.
More reason to hate auto-correct with a white hot passion.
Manafort has been treated worse that WEINSTEIN, the SERIAL RAPIST! Manafort is under HOUSE ARREST still, I believe!
Democrats are LAW-LESS because Republicans are BALL-LESS!
It doesn’t sound like he knew they were potential witnesses.
Absolutely. The TRUST SESSIONS crowd has taken groupthink to levels that shouldn’t even be possible.
>>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
From Breitbart...
Oct 31, 2017
“President Donald Trump ridiculed the “fake news” reaction to the indictment of Paul Manafort and his business associate Rick Gates.
“The Fake News is working overtime. As Paul Manaforts lawyer said, there was “no collusion” and events mentioned took place long before he came to the campaign,” Trump said. ...”
Desparate attempt to get the guy for something.
The guy himself (Paul Manafort) IS a Russia-colluding slime ball. But what he did on behalf of Putin was years before he joined Trump. Can’t understand why they selected him, or Flynn, in the first place, to be on the team, given their Russian connections. I suspect Trump was naive on the situation before he was wisely informed later on in the campaign by folks like Pence.
Yes, isn’t that the truth.
‘The Russian Witch Hunt Hoax continues, all because Jeff Sessions didn’t tell me he was going to recuse himself…I would have quickly picked someone else. So much time and money wasted, so many lives ruined…and Sessions knew better than most that there was No Collusion!’
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 5, 2018
Anybody who calls this ‘kabuki,’ is revealing to the world an IQ of ~85, max. Sessions is a disgrace and Trump has repeatedly said so. A man of honor would have resigned long ago, but Sessions stays on to spite Trump. After all Jeff’s bff, Rosenstein, needs him.
[And just stop with the, ‘He’s there bc Trump wants him there,’ BS. Sessions is there bc Mueller will charge Trump with obstruction if he fires Jeffy , and the Uniparty will eat it up like starving hyenas on a T-bone steak.]
Jeff Sessions valued attaining the title of Attorney General over anything that would have be effective for the country.
That’s a fair assessment. Sessions wanted to go down in history as an AG. Had he leveled with Trump about his plans to recuse that title would have slipped away. So he brazenly deceived Trump, and has been playing for Rosenstein’s team ever since.
Manafort handled the campaign of a Ukranian presidential candidate 20 years ago. He never made any bones about making millions from it. Not against the law. I seriously doubt he committed any crimes and will not be convicted. He did a pretty good job of lining up delegates in a rigged election. This is just an attempt to get at Trump.
>>Manafort handled the campaign of a
>>Ukranian presidential candidate 20 years ago.
Lobbying for Viktor Yanukovych and involvements in Ukraine
[Paul] Manafort worked as an adviser on the Ukrainian presidential campaign of [Putin stooge] Viktor Yanukovych (and his Party of Regions during the same time span) from December 2004 until the February 2010 Ukrainian presidential election[47][48][49] even as the U.S. government ... opposed Yanukovych because of his ties to Russia’s leader Vladimir Putin.[21]
Manafort was hired to advise Yanukovych months after massive street demonstrations known as the Orange Revolution overturned Yanukovych’s victory in the 2004 presidential race.[50]
Borys Kolesnikov, Yanukovich’s campaign manager, said the party hired Manafort after identifying organizational and other problems in the 2004 elections, in which it was advised by Russian strategists.[48]
Manafort rebuffed U.S. Ambassador William Taylor when the latter complained he was undermining U.S. interests in Ukraine.[34]
According to a 2008 U.S. Justice Department annual report, Manafort’s company received $63,750 from Yanukovych’s Party of Regions over a six-month period ending on March 31, 2008, for consulting services.[51]
In 2010, under Manafort’s tutelage, the opposition leader put the Orange Revolution on trial, campaigning against its leaders’ management of a weak economy.
Returns from the presidential election gave Yanukovych a narrow win over Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, a leader of the 2004 demonstrations.
Yanukovych owed his comeback in Ukraine’s presidential election to a drastic makeover of his political persona and, people in his party say, that makeover was engineered in part by his American consultant, Manafort.[48]
In 2007 and 2008 Manafort was involved in investment projects with Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska (the acquisition of a Ukrainian telecoms company) and Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash (redevelopment of the site of the former Drake Hotel in New York City).[52]
The Associated Press has reported that Manafort negotiated a $10 million annual contract with Deripaska to promote Russian interests in politics, business, and media coverage in Europe and the United States, starting in 2005.[53]
In 2013 Yanukovych became the main target of the Euromaidan protests.[54]
After the February 2014 Ukrainian revolution (the conclusion of Euromaidan) Yanukovych fled to Russia.[54]
On March 17, 2014, the day after the Crimean status referendum, Yanukovych became one of the first eleven persons who were placed under executive sanctions on the Specially Designated Nationals List (SDN) by President Obama, freezing his assets in the US and banning him from entering the United States.[55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65][a]
Manafort then returned to Ukraine in September 2014 to become an advisor to Yanukovych’s former head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine Serhiy Lyovochkin.[49]
In this role he was asked to assist in rebranding Yanukovych’s Party of Regions.[49] Instead, he argued to help stabilize Ukraine, Manafort was instrumental in creating a new political party called Opposition Bloc.[49]
According to Ukrainian political analyst Mikhail Pogrebinsky, “He thought to gather the largest number of people opposed to the current government, you needed to avoid anything concrete, and just become a symbol of being opposed”.[49]
According to Manafort, he has not worked in Ukraine since the October 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election.[66][67]
However, according to Ukrainian border control entry data, Manafort traveled to Ukraine several times after that election, all the way through late 2015.[67] ...”
His opponent, Viktor Yushchenko, before and after assassination attempt
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