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Did Mueller’s Team Violate Manafort’s Constitutional Rights? They May Have.
La Newz ^ | 10/30/2017 | Rachel Stockman

Posted on 10/30/2017 11:08:04 AM PDT by scooby321

Ex-campaign adviser Paul Manafort turned himself in Monday after being indicted for money laundering, and a slew of other financial crimes. The feds alleged he illegally funneled millions of dollars of payments into offshore bank accounts in order to avoid detection by U.S. authorities as it related to his work on behalf of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. While the indictment containing Manfort’s alleged criminal activities is very detailed, and well-documented, there is one area that could hurt Mueller’s investigation. Mueller’s team may have obtained evidence in the raid of Paul Manafort’s home that was not covered by the search warrant. That could be problematic.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: manafort; manafortindicted; mueller; muellermanafort; russia; trump; trumprussia
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To: scooby321

“Fruit of the poisoned tree.” If true, the entire case against Manafort may be thrown out before it proceeds to trial because of illegally obtained evidence.

Unless prosecutors can prove the rest of it wasn’t tainted. Good luck with it.

Looks like it might not even result in a conviction. And the fake news media will move on to the next thing.


21 posted on 10/30/2017 11:45:39 AM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: Alberta's Child

Think the house search comes under the fruit from a poison tree problem. If they got information from the intelligence agencies that was tainted from the made up story from Hillary and the DNC, then the search of his house would not have occurred without the tainted intelligence information. It may all be thrown out. Then the collusion case dries up.


22 posted on 10/30/2017 11:49:20 AM PDT by Kozy (new age haruspex; "Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.")
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To: scooby321

These charges against Manafort sound weak. It also seems like he has not cooperated or rolled over on anybody.


23 posted on 10/30/2017 11:51:36 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Kozy
Very true.

Something to consider here is that if Mueller is really acting as a Democrat operative, then bringing an indictment like this is one of the worst things he could have done. The whole story of illegally obtained FISA warrants and the covert surveillance of senior people in the Trump campaign could be exposed in a criminal trial.

24 posted on 10/30/2017 11:52:46 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Tell them to stand!" -- President Trump, 9/23/2017)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

They don’t sound weak to me at all. Frankly, I think the bigger concern for Americans is that the things Manafort is alleged to have done are not only illegal but are commonplace in Washington D.C. these days.


25 posted on 10/30/2017 11:54:03 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Tell them to stand!" -- President Trump, 9/23/2017)
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To: Alberta's Child

#1— Paul Manafort is a patriot who helped Donald Trump get elected. He got Trump over the hump, the Republican convention hump.
#2 Whatever Paul Manafort did as a lobbyist in Washington DC was done by at least 50-100 other people who remain un-indicted.

#3 The only reason Paul Manafort was indicted is that he worked for Donald Trump’s campaign. He was indicted as a warning to others to not help out Donald Trump.

#4 Paul Manfort will be forced to spend at least 2 million on lawyers which is punishment in and of itself. Not to mention he and his wife will be emotionally drained and forced to spend thousands of hours on Robert Mueller’s bullshit case.


26 posted on 10/30/2017 12:03:03 PM PDT by dennisw (Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it is enemy action.)
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To: scooby321

Anyone know when Al Sharpton’s tax evadion case is coming to trial? //S


27 posted on 10/30/2017 12:06:57 PM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: HarleyLady27

bookmarked


28 posted on 10/30/2017 12:26:48 PM PDT by 1035rep
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To: scooby321
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things ."......

if a warrant , Special Council" or other Federal Witch Hunt mandate is found to be made under false pretenses, should not this unconstitutional Witch Hunt be terminated ?

are we living under a Deep State regime that is not bound by the US constitution ?

is the FBI the new Fourth Branch of government ?

with CNN as their new ministry of propaganda ?

29 posted on 10/30/2017 12:27:15 PM PDT by KTM rider
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To: taxcontrol; Fred Nerks

I agree with your theory. The outing of the dossier and the DNC payment for it has undercut Mueller’s evidence plan . The Senate intelligence Comittee should hear from the Uranium one witness ASAP, and the FUSIN GPS data shluld prove that the FISA warrents used originally are illegally obtained as well, based on fiction as it were.

Another interesting thing for anyone in the know anout the law is that fact that Manafort switched legal teams and ATTY Kevin Downing actually was forced to leave his law firm if he was to represent Manafort due to “conflict of interest.” The lefty lawyer fix may have even attempted to deny Manafort the counsel he had chosen.

Constitutional issues are surfacing at every turn in this case.

See here:

http://www.law.com/nationallawjournal/almID/1202796558629/?slreturn=20170930152236

Kevin Downing seems to be locked and loaded.He has been preparing since August.


30 posted on 10/30/2017 12:34:26 PM PDT by Candor7 ( (Obama Fascism http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.htm)
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To: HarleyLady27

Mighty interesting stuff. Of course, we know a conviction is not necessary, only the charge is important.


31 posted on 10/30/2017 12:35:58 PM PDT by arrogantsob (Check out "Chaos and Mayhem" at Amazon.com)
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To: scooby321

He worked for Trump. Therefore, he has no constitutional rights. Biog -eared Brother has spoken.


32 posted on 10/30/2017 12:38:02 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: miniTAX
"- that there is ZILCH in the fabled Russian campaign collusion, even after cavity searching compromised Manafort"

I strongly dissagree, there is trail 8 lanes wide leading to the Clintons and Mueller, who has a part in that play. Mueller knows ALL about U1 and that is real russian collusion in 2012 and that would have carry over to an election in 2016 where all of the actors involved did not only "collude" with Russia, now they seek to overturn an elected president by sedition and falsly obtained search warrants, by citing knowingly false evidence.

this is a crime and Mueller and Comey should go to jail to remove them from harming our form of government.

This goes beyond politics, it it sedition by criminal activity, and should nipped in the bud before it gets further out of control

33 posted on 10/30/2017 12:41:25 PM PDT by KTM rider
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To: Strac6

Title 18 section 3282 in general.

More specificly:
https://www.justice.gov/usam/criminal-resource-manual-650-length-limitations-period

I have since learned that the general provision may be overridden by specific laws. It is possible that the tax code has more specific statue of limitations.


34 posted on 10/30/2017 12:48:19 PM PDT by taxcontrol (Stupid should hurt)
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To: scooby321; Admin Moderator; Sidebar Moderator

This is a blog post. Breaking news tho?


35 posted on 10/30/2017 12:58:39 PM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: dennisw
Mueller and Comey shirked their duties and covered up extortion and racketeering involving activities connected to the U-1 deal. That is a crime punishable by imprisonment. This "Russian Collusion" play is and obvious attempt at sedition and that in itself is not an enforceable crime, however, comitting high crimes to enact sedition certainly is.

the Clintons did not commit the extortion and bribery that resulted from U-1, but were accessories to it, and Mueller and Comey are guilty of consipiracy to cover it up WHICH EFFECTED THE ELECTION by making Hillary eligible to even run for election, when in fact she should have been indicted for obstruction of justice and violating the espionage act by scrubbing the e-mails.

36 posted on 10/30/2017 1:00:08 PM PDT by KTM rider
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To: scooby321
The feds alleged he illegally funneled millions of dollars of payments into offshore bank accounts in order to avoid detection by U.S. authorities

Like the Clintons.
37 posted on 10/30/2017 1:20:37 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: Old Yeller
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38 posted on 10/30/2017 1:28:17 PM PDT by timestax
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To: Corporate Law

ping


39 posted on 10/30/2017 1:29:21 PM PDT by timestax
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To: HarleyLady27
Thank you for your analysis.

With luck Manaford et al will point this all out in court and hopefully this will all get put to bed.

Bump for reference

40 posted on 10/30/2017 1:39:53 PM PDT by Robert357 ( Dan Rather was discharged as "medically unfit" on May 11, 1954.)
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