Posted on 07/23/2018 12:31:57 PM PDT by DCBryan1
A federal judge has postponed until July 31 the start of the upcoming trial of President Donald Trump's former campaign chief Paul Manafort. The judge also has granted immunity to five potential witnesses for their testimony against Manafort, who is charged with crimes related to his consulting and lobbying work for a pro-Russia political party in Ukraine. Prosecutors in the office of special counsel Robert Mueller had asked for so-called use immunity for the five witnesses, which would bar their testimony at Manafort's trial from being used against them in a criminal prosecution. A federal judge has postponed from Wednesday until July 31 the start of the upcoming trial of President Donald Trump's former campaign chief Paul Manafort after Manafort's lawyers complained of having a vast amount of newly disclosed documents to sift through.
Judge T.S. Ellis III also granted immunity to five potential witnesses for their testimony at that trial in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va.
The potential witnesses were identified as Dannis Raico, Cindy Laporta, Conor O'Brien, Donna Duggan and James Brennan. The determination of whether to call the witnesses to testify will be made by prosecutors during the trial.
Prosecutors in the office of special counsel Robert Mueller had asked for so-called use immunity for the five witnesses, which would bar their testimony at Manafort's trial from being used against them in a criminal prosecution. Ellis' decision to grant them use immunity does not preclude the quintet from being charged on the basis of other evidence.
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All five people appear to work at various financial institutions that have been linked to Manafort either in court filings or published reports.
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Give Muel-ear credit. The Number One Rule in finding who's guilty is...
... Follow The Money.
John Brennan. James Brennan? Are these the same person.
No
John O. Brennan is the ex-CIA Director......James Brennan? No clue, but not the CIA guy
Typical prosecutor tactic. Withhold evidence until the last minute just before the trial when they had the evidence for months before the trial. A decent judge would den use of the evidence unless it was favorable to the defendant. If it was favorable to the defendant, that would be reason enough to dismiss the charges in most cases.
Well you think that because Tucker Carlson reported it last week, and it was picked up by the right-wing press and published as a fact. They theory Tucker was propounding was the Tony Podesta was one of the five people Mueller had asked for immunity and also the keep their names sealed.
Today Mueller got his immunity grants, but the Judge ruled the names had to be made public.
So, it appears at this point that Tucker was wrong, and Podesta has not been given immunity.
At least that is my interpretation of all this, perhaps someone has a different view?
The media will put collusion and Russian in the same sentence and make it appear to be Russian collusion and idiots will believe it which includes political idiots.
5 Criminals get to walk for giving up Manafort.
James Brennan? Not John Brennan?
James Brennan is some kind of banker or financial guy. This is essentially about tax evasion.
Thank you.
Yeah, well you sure know how to ruin a perfectly good conspiracy thread.
That’s good news.
BTW, I didn’t hear it from Tucker because I haven’t watched him in a while. I can’t stand to watch Libs talk over him while he makes faces.
I had heard it somewhere but can’t remember where. There’s so much going on I can’t remember or keep up with it all.
Another FReeper just told me it isn’t true. That’s good news.
Never bite on ‘use’ immunity. Always hold out for ‘transactional’, and if the prosecutor won’t give it, take the 5th and flip him off.
What these ‘witnesses’ are probably looking for is immunity from perjury charges.
...and go to jail for contempt. Use immunity is all that is required to compel testimony.
Ellis, Thomas Selby III
Federal Judicial Service:
Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
Nominated by Ronald Reagan on July 1, 1987, to a seat vacated by Robert R. Merhige. Confirmed by the Senate on August 5, 1987, and received commission on August 6, 1987.
Assumed senior status on April 1, 2007.
Education:
Princeton University, B.S.E., 1961
Harvard Law School, J.D., 1969
University of Oxford Faculty of Law, Diploma in Law, 1970
Professional Career:
U.S. Navy, 1961-1966
Private practice, Richmond, Virginia, 1969-1987
Lecturer in law, College of William and Mary, 1981-1983
Sometimes a little time for contempt beats a long stretch of hard time.
With Gestapo Muller as the prosecutor, and a tame judge who just extended the pre-trail imprisonment of Manafort without bail to bring more pressure on him, it’s a hard decision.
Maybe the best bet would be to take the stand and then try to expose the kangaroo court.
Manafort got what he wanted.
Attorney Kevin Downing had argued the defense needed more time to go through tens of thousands of documents.
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