Posted on 12/18/2019 9:31:50 AM PST by montag813
by Joe Callen
In a stunning, unexpected ruling, a judge on Wednesday tossed out New York State charges of mortgage fraud against Paul Manafort because of ‘double jeopardy’ laws.
This is a huge victory for Paul Manafort, who remains in custody on federal charges, because this opens a way for Trump to issue him a presidential pardon.
And not just for Manafort: this ruling throws a legal hand grenade into the entire Democrat strategy of punishing former Trump aides and supporters with state charges to bypass his pardon powers.
Manafort, 70, is currently serving a seven and half year prison sentence on federal charges for violating FARA related to his Ukrainian lobbying, tax evasion and bank fraud after Mueller and Weissmann hunted him down.
Crooked and corrupt Manhattan DA Cy Vance announced state charges against Manafort back in March just MINUTES after the former Trump campaign chairman was sentenced for the second time on federal charges.
The Communists in the Southern District of New York hatched a plot to go around ‘double jeopardy’ laws. This way Manafort would still serve prison time if Trump were to issue a presidential pardon.
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My question is.... When are these SOB’s gonna pay for their crimes against the citizenry.
Pardon everyone convicted of process crimes and commute other sentences.
They would never have been prosecuted absent their connection to Trump.
When do we get to see REAL criminals going to jail — or even being arrested — for the REAL crimes being committed in all this?
Can Manafort sue the criminals who did this to him?
Everything I have heard about Manafort makes him sound like a pompous Delta Bravo. And he has broken laws.
But I maintain that if he hadn’t been associated with Trump, he wouldn’t be in prison, which makes it a targeted prosecution, as anyone with a set of eyes knows.
Dawn raid on his house with a SWAT team. Solitary confinement and imprisonment at Riker’s Island.
I think every single “conviction” associated with this collusion farce should be thrown out. Every single one, even the scummy Cohen who should be imprisoned for being such a scum.
Praise the Lord!
I wonder if this will affect the impeachment vote?
My take has always been...This was a "money" crime and punishment should be in the form of money.
If he had held someone at gunpoint, say robbing 7-11....punishment should be prison.
Maybe. But Manafort was convicted of very real crimes unconnected with his work with the Trump campaign. In fact, Trump was an innocent party that Manafort used to further his illegal activities. The damage he could have done to Trump's election chances could have been significant had he been with the campaign longer and his activities come out before election day. He should stay in prison.
HOURS after his case is dismissed, he has a CARDIAC EVENT...?
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/17/paul-manafort-hospitalized-086624
Sounds as likely as 2 cameras shutting down and 2 guards falling asleep.
The Road To Zambia
Let the liberal heads explode!!! Trump can pardon him any time he likes now. And what are the Democrats going to say when they said nothing after Bill Clinton pardoned the two fugitives Marc Rich and Pincus Green in the last hours of his administration? Rich and Green were tax evaders, and were doing business with Iran. Real scumbags.
He’ll probably be dead before he gets out.
Can Manafort sue the criminals who did this to him?
Possibly, in a civil suit in a civil court while showing the malfeasance of those who charged him.
What they did in producing that law was an abuse of power.
And as I understand it, the FBI had already investigated him years ago on some of those things, and chose not to pursue them.
I don’t think they can appeal a dismissal. They have to start all over.
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