Posted on 10/30/2017 11:34:47 AM PDT by bgill
Paul Manafort and Rick Gates entered not guilty pleas Monday afternoon in a federal courtroom, telling a magistrate judge that they'll fight a laundry list of felony charges brought by a grand jury on Friday.
Manafort, a former Donald Trump campaign chairman, is a veteran lobbyist now charged with conspiring against the United States and money-laundering on a gigantic scale, following an investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller.
Along with Gates, his longtime business partner and protege, Manafort surrendered to federal authorities early on Monday as the first charges from the probe of possible Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election were unsealed.
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Manafort on house arrest with $10 million (pocket change) bond.
Gates $5 million.
Discovery is going to be a bitch.
True that.
The real problem is juries don’t know a damn thing and they will be “groomed” for a guilty verdict.
They are guilty of only one thing. Not kicking 30% upstairs to the Clinton Foundation.
At least one party in this has a possibility of having worn a wire.
Maybe he did..maybe he didnt..but anyone dealing with GP needs to worry about it.
I think there’s a ton of cr** still coming on the “unmasking”.
Wont discount that theory
Not Guilty?? Where’s the photo?
The squeeze has begun for Manafort to flip someone higher up to avoid conviction, to get the charges reduced to premeditated jaywalking, or at least to avoid years of serious legal expenses fighting the deep DC swamp pockets.
I don’t know about Gates, but Trump pretty much screwed Manafort saying Manafort’s misdeeds were years ago and before joining his campaign.
Yep - odds are they overstepped the search warrant to start with....
Hell -- I would feel completely betrayed by him even just for his prior work with the Podesta Group.
They parted company abruptly. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/08/19/developing-paul-manafort-resigns-from-trump-campaign.html
Popcorn sales & pizza sales to increase.
Another boost to the economy !!
“”Trump pretty much screwed Manafort saying Manafort’s misdeeds were years ago and before joining his campaign””
Did he really? Good grief! I’ve been saying he needs a governor on his mouth and I have friends who were appalled that I would say such a thing. Well, nothing to apologize for when it’s true. He just does NOT THINK before he opens his mouth!
There's a lot less pre-trial discovery in criminal cases than in civil cases.
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