https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4883342/Manafort-plea-agreement.pdf
Posted on 09/14/2018 10:19:08 AM PDT by vg0va3
1. PAUL J. MANAFORT, JR. (MANAFORT) served for years as a political consultant and lobbyist. Between at least 2006 and 2015, MANAFORT conspired with Richard W. Gates (Gates),Konstantin Kilimnik (Kilimnik), and others to act, and acted, as unregistered agents of a foreign government and political party.
Specifically, MANAFORT conspired to act and acted as an agent of the Government of Ukraine, the Party of Regions (a Ukrainian political party whose leader Victor Yanukovych was President from 2010 to 2014), President Yanukovych, and the Opposition Bloc (a successor to the Party of Regions that formed in 2014 when Yanukovych fled to Russia).
MANAFORT generated more than 60 million dollars in income as a result of his Ukraine work.
In order to hide Ukraine payments from United States authorities, from approximately 2006 through at least 2016, MANAFORT, with the assistance of Gates and Kilimnik, laundered the money through scores of United States and foreign corporations, partnerships, and bank accounts.
COUNT ONE
Conspiracy Against The United States (pg 32)
COUNT TWO
Conspiracy to Obstruct Justice (Witness Tampering) (pg 33)
(Excerpt) Read more at assets.documentcloud.org ...
I just saw your Twitter page where you stated basically the same thing.
I really enjoy your Twitter page....I go there at least six or seven times a day. I am one of your many followers.
Keep up the good work!
Thank you.
The Podesta Group, a prominent lobbying and public relations firm, is one of the two unidentified companies mentioned in the grand jury indictment of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his deputy Richard Gates, NBC News reported Monday.
Manafort and Gates approached “Company A” and “Company B” in 2012 about lobbying on behalf of the Ukrainian government, according to the indictment that was unsealed Monday.
(CNN)Federal prosecutors in New York are weighing criminal charges against former Obama White House counsel Greg Craig as part of an investigation into whether he failed to register as a foreign agent in a probe that is linked to former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, according to sources familiar with the matter.
Former Obama lawyer Greg Craig leaves firm after brush with Mueller probe
Was he in Skaden? (Law Firm A in the report). What Skaden did seems very scummy.
“He already has flipped. That’s what the superseding indictment asserts.”
President Trump has given great praise to Mr. Manafort and the respect is mutual.
If Mr. Manafort flipped on anyone, he flipped on Hillary.
Thanks for this clarification. In reading what is published, I couldn’t find anything related to the election of Trump.
“There is a great deal of suspicion that up to 1600 apartment owned by Trump were used to launder Russian mafia money. “
What Leftist Rag Fantasy mag’s ass did you pull this crap from?
That was yesterday. Today Mr. Manafort has thrown himself at the mercy of Mueller, plead guilty to a wide array of charges, and is cooperating fully in the probe against Mr. Trump. Mueller isn't investigating Hillary - so the rest of your comment is pointless.
18 USC § 371 has a five year statutory maximum on it.
It’s a 4 dimensional chess game, wrapped up in an enigma, within a 56 sided Rubik’s Cube, inside of a black box, in the eye of a Cat 6 hurricane, all contained in a black hole.
President Trump will win.
Manafort already pleaded guilty and the deal has $46M asset forfeiture with 37 offense level points meaning 210 to 262 months, so 18 years out in 10 maybe?
Yes.
Offense level is irrelevant if there’s a stautory maximum. If all he pled to is a 371 violation, then the most he can get is five years. Happens all the time.
I wonder if his deal included time served, as his sentence. Anyone know?
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4883342/Manafort-plea-agreement.pdf
Doesn’t matter. If his plea was to a 371 conspiracy count only, the stautory maximum is five years, regardless of the offense level or guidelines range. The statute of conviction controls, not the guidelines range. I’m a federal criminal defense attorney, I assure you that I know what I am talking about.
I trust that you know the law, but have you clicked the link and read the plea he signed? It is 17 pages. I am not a lawyer, but I believe that what he signed is something ~18 years.
He will get credit for any time already served in US Marshals custody from the Bureau of Prisons when he is ultimately sentenced to whatever he gets, which won’t be more than five years if he only pled to a count of conspiracy.
Give me a few minutes. Driving home. I’ll read the entire thing when I get home and let you know. I do these all the time. Off the cuff, I can’t imagine Manafort’s attorneys would cut ANY deal exposing him to that much time. Always remember, the statute controls, not the guidelines. You can have a HUGE guidelines range, but if the statute only allows for a max of like 5 years then that’s all the judge is allowed to sentence to by law.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.