Posted on 07/11/2018 4:35:33 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Special counsel Robert Mueller is asking a federal court in Virginia for 100 blank subpoenas in the case against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
The request was made in a filing on Wednesday. The subpoenas would require their recipients to testify in the U.S. District Court in Alexandria on July 25, when Manafort's trial in Virginia is set to begin.
No further information was provided in the filing, and a spokesman for the special counsel did not immediately respond to The Hill's request for comment.
The request comes roughly a month after Mueller filed a request for 150 blank subpoenas.
Manafort is facing numerous charges, including tax evasion, bank fraud and failing to report foreign bank accounts. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges and has sought to delay the trial and move the venue to Roanoke from Alexandria.
Manafort has been held in the Northern Neck Regional Jail in Warsaw, Va., since last month, when a federal judge in Washington, where he is facing separate charges, revoked his bail in response to new charges that the former Trump campaign chair sought to sway the testimony of two witnesses in his trial.
Mueller's team is investigating possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, as well as any other alleged crimes that may arise during the course of the probe.
The Clintons would have put a stop to this a loooong time ago if he’d been investigating them.
President Trump: enough. Fire Mueller, Rosenstein and Sessions already. Start over. Clean house. Let the Dems squawk all they want. (they will anyway whether you fire them or not) - so do it. You are the nation’s chief executive. Please execute.
They are going full throttle while he is gone, been planning it for sure
Mueller and the cronies he hired are just stretching this mess as far as they can to gather more of the taxpayer-funded gravy train $$$$$. They are already well over $25 million.
Why not ask for 1 and run it thru the photocopier at the office? Sheesh!
The obvious implication is that these ‘supoenas’ will never go back to the court to be certified prior to serving. They are essentially ‘pre-approved’?
That’s a congressional subpoena. And the answer there is apparently ‘Yes’.
Frankly there needs to be an ADA assigned to congress so that when a witness blows off a congressional subpoena the referral to the DOJ is automatic and handled expeditiously.
Contempt of Congress is treated like a center-city parking ticket.
Strange. Isn’t the prosecution required to disclose to defendants the identities of those who will be a witness against them?
ROFL
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