Posted on 07/22/2017 8:01:24 AM PDT by Rusty0604
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. investigators examining money laundering accusations against President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort hope to push him to cooperate with their probe into possible collusion between Trump's campaign and Russia, two sources with direct knowledge of the investigation said.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team is examining Manafort's financial and real estate records in New York as well as his involvement in Ukrainian politics, the officials said.
Between 2006 and 2013, Manafort bought three New York properties, including one in Trump Tower in Manhattan. He paid for them in full and later took out mortgages against them. A former senior U.S. law enforcement official said that tactic is often used as a means to hide the origin of funds gained illegally. Reuters has no independent evidence that Manafort did this.
The sources also did not say whether Mueller has uncovered any evidence to charge Manafort with money laundering, but they said doing so is seen by investigators as critical in getting his full cooperation in their investigation.
"If Mueller's team can threaten criminal charges against Manafort, they could use that as leverage to convince him to cooperate," said one of the sources.
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What does Trump’s personal finances for the last twenty years have to do with anything? It’s a witchhunt.
Good questions.
So Reuters is just reporting baseless allegations as “news”.
The Left SOP.
He was dealing with some..ahem...Interesting characters in the time frame of those transactions.
Notorious..and ruthless.
How can someone who did not break the law, in other words pay cash for a property, be held accountable just because he’s asked where the money came from and he decides it’s none of anybody’s business and refuses to answer the question?
“as a means to hide the origin of funds gained illegally.”
Uh, not really, it is pretty junior league. The original transaction is public record. Not much cover for illegal funds.
Another Deep State smear job - money laundering? The Trump DOJ needs to start the indictments of Clinton, Podesta, and other Clintonistas for public corruption and money laundering at the Clinton Foundation...
How about this wild theory. “Let’s keep poking Trump and his team with such outlandish accusations that he will eventually lash out with a clearly illegal retaliation! Then we have got him.”
Another #Fakenews smear job...my question is when is Trump going to turn the tables and start exposing the skeletons these “reporters” have in their closets.
Yet this was way before Trump ever decided to run for president. This investigation is not limiting itself to Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Does he really want to open Pandora’s box?
How about investigating Clinton’s campaign managerJohn Podesta?
This is the danger of Mueller/Mueller’s very “Special” Council.
Unrestrained witch hunt against American citizens.
How about cracking the CFI’s funding - from DAY ONE - wide open, Mueller?
Lot’s of “Russia” trails there, most likely.
Some argue that this is scope creep
But mueller has broad authority. He finds a thread..he can follow it.
Weissmann is an expert at this...and knows all the details of felix sater and his shenanigans. The lawyer for jody kriss is quoted about the unfettered criminal rampage.
Being a CI for loretta lynch..and a cia asset..has given sater an unbelievable latitude
In any case..mueller has a NY team...that are experts at money laundering. Weissmann took down a mafia Don
Everyone he knows or has dealt with in the past 20 years should be pardoned publicly and prophylacticly.
The tone of your comments consistently implies hidden wrongdoings by Trump, or at least his inner circle, which will lead to the president’s downfall. Do I read your tea leaves correctly?
Yep, it renders Mueller useless.
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