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Nolte: Manafort Deal Looks Like Good News for Trump, Terrible News for Democrats
2018 Sep 20, 7:11pm 2,920 views 24 comments
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bob2356
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2018 Sep 20, 7:55pm
WillPowers says
BLOCKBUSTER BLOCKBUSTER BLOCKBUSTER It's the big one.
Ken Vogel, a Democrat-reporter at the New York Times, has been forced to report that powerful Democrats linked to Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama might be in the Mueller crosshairs.
BLOCKBUSTER BLOCKBUSTER BLOCKBUSTER It's the big one.
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bob2356
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2018 Sep 20, 8:16pm
WillPowers says
Where did vogel say democrat? I'm not seeing it. Can you point it out? . I guess you didn't get the memo that the mercury group ( former rep. Vin Weber (R-Minn.)) is a republican lobbying firm. They all knew that European Centre for a Modern Ukraine (ECFMU) was a front for Yanukovych and Putin. The emails that have come out show the lobbyists in the groups laughing and making jokes about it.
How does breitbart know that Mueller has zippo? Did Mueller call breitbart up and tell them?
MORE BAD NEWS FOR PODESTA, MERCURY & SKADDEN: As part of MANAFORT’s plea deal, he agrees to testify before all grand juries in DC and "elsewhere.” The inquiries into @PodestaGroup, Mercury & @SkaddenArps are being run out of the Southern District of New York.
Where did vogel say democrat? I'm not seeing it. Can you point it out? . I guess you didn't get the memo that the mercury group ( former rep. Vin Weber (R-Minn.)) is a republican lobbying firm. They all knew that European Centre for a Modern Ukraine (ECFMU) was a front for Yanukovych and Putin. The emails that have come out show the lobbyists in the groups laughing and making jokes about it.
How does breitbart know that Mueller has zippo? Did Mueller call breitbart up and tell them?
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socal2
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2018 Sep 20, 8:34pm
bob2356 says
Really?
Tony Podesta's brother (John) was Bill Clinton's chief of staff and and campaign chair for Hillary Clinton's 2016 run.
Greg Craig was Bill Clinton's and Obama's White House council.
I think Manafort is certainly guilty of tax evasion. But if he is also going to be charged basically as a spy for failing to register as a foreign lobbyist, then so should these Clinton connected guys.
Where did vogel say democrat? I'm not seeing it. Can you point it out?
Really?
Tony Podesta's brother (John) was Bill Clinton's chief of staff and and campaign chair for Hillary Clinton's 2016 run.
Greg Craig was Bill Clinton's and Obama's White House council.
I think Manafort is certainly guilty of tax evasion. But if he is also going to be charged basically as a spy for failing to register as a foreign lobbyist, then so should these Clinton connected guys.
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anonymous
2019 Feb 15, 5:04pm
Mueller's office seeks prison sentence of 20 -24 years for ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort
WASHINGTON – Russia special counsel Robert Mueller asked a federal judge on Friday to send former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort to prison for between 20 and 24 years for his conviction on multiple financial fraud charges.
Prosecutors also urged a federal judge in Virginia to move forward with the sentencing, which could amount to a life term for the 69-year-old Manafort who less than three years ago presided over President Donald Trump's nomination at the 2016 Republican National Convention.
"Manafort acted for more than a decade as if he were above the law, and deprived the federal government and various financial institutions of millions of dollars," prosecutors wrote in a court filing Friday night, adding that they agreed with a pre-sentence report filed by federal probation authorities. "The sentence here should reflect the seriousness of these crimes, and serve to both deter Manafort and others from engaging in such conduct."
Prosecutors also indicated that Manafort should be held liable for restitution and forfeited properties totaling up to nearly $30 million.
Manafort's sentencing had been on hold while prosecutors and his lawyers argued over whether he violated an agreement to assist in the continuing investigation into the Kremlin's interference in the 2016 election. Earlier this week, a federal judge in Washington concluded that Manafort had lied repeatedly to prosecutors, and upended his plea agreement in a related case there.
Manafort could have been eligible for a lesser sentence had he fulfilled his obligation to assist investigators.
Despite his convictions, Trump has lauded Manafort for his refusal "to break." The president, however, has not indicated whether he would issue a pardon for his one-time campaign chief. One of Mueller's prosecutors, Andrew Weissmann, told a judge this month that one of the reasons Manafort might have lied after promising to cooperate was to "augment his chances for a pardon."
In the Friday night court filing, prosecutors asserted that Manafort chose his course of conduct to "maintain his extravagant lifestyle, at the expense of various financial institutions."
"Manafort chose to do this for no other reason than greed, evidencing his belief that the law does not apply to him," the court documents stated.
"Manafort’s age does not eliminate the risk of recidivism he poses—particularly given that his pattern of criminal activity has occurred over more than a decade," prosecutors said. "Manafort’s misconduct continued as recently as October 2018 when he repeatedly and intentionally lied to the government during proffer sessions and the grand jury" after entering into the plea agreement with the government.
Manafort was convicted in August on eight counts of financial fraud following a three-week trial in Alexandria, Virginia. The case was primarily focused on Manafort's extensive consulting work in Ukraine on behalf of its former pro-Russian regime.
A month later, Manafort pleaded guilty to two felony conspiracy charges in a related case as part of his cooperation agreement.
Mueller sought to void that plea deal in November after prosecutors alleged that Manafort had misled them about his interactions with Russian business associate Konstantin Kilimnik, his contacts with Trump's administration and other subjects. Manafort's lawyers argued that his misstatements were unintentional, but U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson largely disagreed.
She ruled that Manafort had lied to prosecutors and the FBI about his interactions with Kilimnik, who prosecutors have said is tied to Russian intelligence. Among the exchanges, prosecutors allege he lied about was having provided polling data to Kilimnik.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/02/15/paul-manafort-deserves-prison-sentence-20-years-mueller-says/2881393002/
WASHINGTON – Russia special counsel Robert Mueller asked a federal judge on Friday to send former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort to prison for between 20 and 24 years for his conviction on multiple financial fraud charges.
Prosecutors also urged a federal judge in Virginia to move forward with the sentencing, which could amount to a life term for the 69-year-old Manafort who less than three years ago presided over President Donald Trump's nomination at the 2016 Republican National Convention.
"Manafort acted for more than a decade as if he were above the law, and deprived the federal government and various financial institutions of millions of dollars," prosecutors wrote in a court filing Friday night, adding that they agreed with a pre-sentence report filed by federal probation authorities. "The sentence here should reflect the seriousness of these crimes, and serve to both deter Manafort and others from engaging in such conduct."
Prosecutors also indicated that Manafort should be held liable for restitution and forfeited properties totaling up to nearly $30 million.
Manafort's sentencing had been on hold while prosecutors and his lawyers argued over whether he violated an agreement to assist in the continuing investigation into the Kremlin's interference in the 2016 election. Earlier this week, a federal judge in Washington concluded that Manafort had lied repeatedly to prosecutors, and upended his plea agreement in a related case there.
Manafort could have been eligible for a lesser sentence had he fulfilled his obligation to assist investigators.
Despite his convictions, Trump has lauded Manafort for his refusal "to break." The president, however, has not indicated whether he would issue a pardon for his one-time campaign chief. One of Mueller's prosecutors, Andrew Weissmann, told a judge this month that one of the reasons Manafort might have lied after promising to cooperate was to "augment his chances for a pardon."
In the Friday night court filing, prosecutors asserted that Manafort chose his course of conduct to "maintain his extravagant lifestyle, at the expense of various financial institutions."
"Manafort chose to do this for no other reason than greed, evidencing his belief that the law does not apply to him," the court documents stated.
"Manafort’s age does not eliminate the risk of recidivism he poses—particularly given that his pattern of criminal activity has occurred over more than a decade," prosecutors said. "Manafort’s misconduct continued as recently as October 2018 when he repeatedly and intentionally lied to the government during proffer sessions and the grand jury" after entering into the plea agreement with the government.
Manafort was convicted in August on eight counts of financial fraud following a three-week trial in Alexandria, Virginia. The case was primarily focused on Manafort's extensive consulting work in Ukraine on behalf of its former pro-Russian regime.
A month later, Manafort pleaded guilty to two felony conspiracy charges in a related case as part of his cooperation agreement.
Mueller sought to void that plea deal in November after prosecutors alleged that Manafort had misled them about his interactions with Russian business associate Konstantin Kilimnik, his contacts with Trump's administration and other subjects. Manafort's lawyers argued that his misstatements were unintentional, but U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson largely disagreed.
She ruled that Manafort had lied to prosecutors and the FBI about his interactions with Kilimnik, who prosecutors have said is tied to Russian intelligence. Among the exchanges, prosecutors allege he lied about was having provided polling data to Kilimnik.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/02/15/paul-manafort-deserves-prison-sentence-20-years-mueller-says/2881393002/
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HeadSet
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2019 Feb 15, 6:11pm
HeadSet
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2019 Feb 15, 6:11pm
But if he is also going to be charged basically as a spy for failing to register as a foreign lobbyist, then so should these Clinton connected guys.
Not going to happen. The whole point of this Mueller thing was to go on the offense to deflect any investigations into Clinton connected people. Mueller will ignore anything that implements Clinton and cronies.
Not going to happen. The whole point of this Mueller thing was to go on the offense to deflect any investigations into Clinton connected people. Mueller will ignore anything that implements Clinton and cronies.
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marcus
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2019 Feb 15, 6:31pm
marcus
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2019 Feb 15, 6:31pm
HeadSet says
Of course. Everyone knows that.
The whole point of this Mueller thing was to go on the offense to deflect any investigations into Clinton connected people
Of course. Everyone knows that.
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anonymous
2019 Feb 24, 4:00am
HeadSet says
The whole point of this Mueller thing was to go on the offense to deflect any investigations into Clinton connected people
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Politics politics ct theory 4chan rumor nasty speculation. Thu Dec 20, 2018, 03:59 PM ... Mueller. This one is brand new just alerted to me by RandomPlacebo, that the Mueller investigation is actually running interference for Donald Trump, and that's why it's taking so long. ...
Nothing like getting quality information from a blog on 4Chan
Even more convincing - the fuckwit of the Universe, Alex Jones picked up on it on July 25, 2017
https://www.infowars.com/claim-mueller-actually-going-after-clintons/
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In other news....New York prosecutors are prepared to charge Paul Manafort if he receives a pardon from Trump: report
New York County District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. purportedly readies tax and other charges against Manafort
New York state prosecutors are reportedly preparing to file criminal charges against Paul Manafort, the longtime Republican consultant who spent five months as President Donald Trump's campaign chairman during the 2016 election, in the event that he receives a presidential pardon.
Bloomberg News reported that New York County District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. is ready to file tax and other charges against Manafort.
Manafort was convicted last year on eight counts of bank and fraud tax, and he pleaded guilty to two more charges of conspiracy and lying to the FBI. He is scheduled to be sentenced next month in two separate federal criminal cases, in Virginia and in Washington, for crimes related to foreign lobbying and advising pro-Russian politicians and oligarchs in Ukraine in the years before he joined Trump's presidential campaign.
Prosecutors working for special counsel Robert Mueller, who brought the case against Manafort and is investigating allegations of collusion between Trump's presidential campaign and Russia, recommended that Manafort serve as long as 24.5 years in prison in the Virginia case — essentially a life sentence for the 69-year-old. He is scheduled to be sentenced at a U.S. district court in Virginia on March 8, according to a court filing posted Thursday.
Manafort also awaits a March 13 sentencing date in a separate case brought by Mueller in Washington, where he pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges and charges of lying to federal prosecutors and a grand jury. Mueller's office must submit a sentencing memo recommending a length for Manafort's prison sentence to District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson no later than Friday.
In Virginia, U.S. District Court Judge T.S. Ellis III had scheduled Manafort's sentencing for early February, but the hearing was postponed until attorneys resolved a dispute over whether Manafort had breached his plea deal with Mueller in the Washington case. Jackson ruled last week that Manafort had purposefully lied to the FBI, as well as to Mueller's team, about contacts he had with Trump administration officials and his connections to Russian-linked intelligence officers two months after reaching a plea deal, thus voiding it and allowing Mueller to recommend a harsher sentence.
Lawyers for Manafort claimed in court filings that he did not make "intentional misstatements" and "provided complete and truthful information to the best of his ability" over the course of 12 meetings with government attorneys and federal prosecutors. His defense team also stated that "conditions of Mr. Manafort's confinement have taken a toll on his physical and mental health" and weighed on his "state of mind and on his memory."
Ellis and Jackson, the judges in the Virginia and Washington cases, are likely to determine how Manafort will serve his prison time. Under the original plea deal, Mueller had agreed to recommend that Manafort serve his Washington sentence concurrent with his Virginia sentence. But following Jackson's ruling last week, Mueller may suggest that Manafort serve the sentences consecutively.
"A presidential pardon would not protect Manafort from state-filed criminal charges," Bloomberg News reported. "The longtime Republican operative could be sentenced to two or more decades in prison under federal sentencing guidelines."
Last November, Trump, speaking of a pardon for Manafort, said he "wouldn't take it off the table." At the time, Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler of New York, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, warned Trump that "even dangling a pardon" for Manafort "would fortify a claim or charge of obstruction of justice."
https://www.salon.com/2019/02/22/new-york-prosecutors-are-prepared-to-charge-paul-manafort-if-he-receives-a-pardon-from-trump-report/
The whole point of this Mueller thing was to go on the offense to deflect any investigations into Clinton connected people
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Politics politics ct theory 4chan rumor nasty speculation. Thu Dec 20, 2018, 03:59 PM ... Mueller. This one is brand new just alerted to me by RandomPlacebo, that the Mueller investigation is actually running interference for Donald Trump, and that's why it's taking so long. ...
Nothing like getting quality information from a blog on 4Chan
Even more convincing - the fuckwit of the Universe, Alex Jones picked up on it on July 25, 2017
https://www.infowars.com/claim-mueller-actually-going-after-clintons/
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In other news....New York prosecutors are prepared to charge Paul Manafort if he receives a pardon from Trump: report
New York County District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. purportedly readies tax and other charges against Manafort
New York state prosecutors are reportedly preparing to file criminal charges against Paul Manafort, the longtime Republican consultant who spent five months as President Donald Trump's campaign chairman during the 2016 election, in the event that he receives a presidential pardon.
Bloomberg News reported that New York County District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. is ready to file tax and other charges against Manafort.
Manafort was convicted last year on eight counts of bank and fraud tax, and he pleaded guilty to two more charges of conspiracy and lying to the FBI. He is scheduled to be sentenced next month in two separate federal criminal cases, in Virginia and in Washington, for crimes related to foreign lobbying and advising pro-Russian politicians and oligarchs in Ukraine in the years before he joined Trump's presidential campaign.
Prosecutors working for special counsel Robert Mueller, who brought the case against Manafort and is investigating allegations of collusion between Trump's presidential campaign and Russia, recommended that Manafort serve as long as 24.5 years in prison in the Virginia case — essentially a life sentence for the 69-year-old. He is scheduled to be sentenced at a U.S. district court in Virginia on March 8, according to a court filing posted Thursday.
Manafort also awaits a March 13 sentencing date in a separate case brought by Mueller in Washington, where he pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges and charges of lying to federal prosecutors and a grand jury. Mueller's office must submit a sentencing memo recommending a length for Manafort's prison sentence to District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson no later than Friday.
In Virginia, U.S. District Court Judge T.S. Ellis III had scheduled Manafort's sentencing for early February, but the hearing was postponed until attorneys resolved a dispute over whether Manafort had breached his plea deal with Mueller in the Washington case. Jackson ruled last week that Manafort had purposefully lied to the FBI, as well as to Mueller's team, about contacts he had with Trump administration officials and his connections to Russian-linked intelligence officers two months after reaching a plea deal, thus voiding it and allowing Mueller to recommend a harsher sentence.
Lawyers for Manafort claimed in court filings that he did not make "intentional misstatements" and "provided complete and truthful information to the best of his ability" over the course of 12 meetings with government attorneys and federal prosecutors. His defense team also stated that "conditions of Mr. Manafort's confinement have taken a toll on his physical and mental health" and weighed on his "state of mind and on his memory."
Ellis and Jackson, the judges in the Virginia and Washington cases, are likely to determine how Manafort will serve his prison time. Under the original plea deal, Mueller had agreed to recommend that Manafort serve his Washington sentence concurrent with his Virginia sentence. But following Jackson's ruling last week, Mueller may suggest that Manafort serve the sentences consecutively.
"A presidential pardon would not protect Manafort from state-filed criminal charges," Bloomberg News reported. "The longtime Republican operative could be sentenced to two or more decades in prison under federal sentencing guidelines."
Last November, Trump, speaking of a pardon for Manafort, said he "wouldn't take it off the table." At the time, Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler of New York, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, warned Trump that "even dangling a pardon" for Manafort "would fortify a claim or charge of obstruction of justice."
https://www.salon.com/2019/02/22/new-york-prosecutors-are-prepared-to-charge-paul-manafort-if-he-receives-a-pardon-from-trump-report/
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WillPowers
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2019 Feb 24, 6:17pm
WillPowers
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2019 Feb 24, 6:17pm
Kakistocracy says
This article misses the point: This was a process crime, committed years before he even started working for Trump and in no way proves collusion or anything close to it. Process crimes for lying to Congress, when Comey admittedly lied too, but did he get indicted? The indictments of Roger Stone and Flynn were process crimes, or bullshit charges that he obstructed justice, having nothing to do with Russian collusion and were committed after the 2016 election, and yet the article you quoted in full apparently, makes no mention of this. It's almost like the writer wants to leave in the readers mind the impression this somehow indicts Trump.
What HOGWASH
Will Powers
Mueller's office seeks prison sentence of 20 -24 years for ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort
This article misses the point: This was a process crime, committed years before he even started working for Trump and in no way proves collusion or anything close to it. Process crimes for lying to Congress, when Comey admittedly lied too, but did he get indicted? The indictments of Roger Stone and Flynn were process crimes, or bullshit charges that he obstructed justice, having nothing to do with Russian collusion and were committed after the 2016 election, and yet the article you quoted in full apparently, makes no mention of this. It's almost like the writer wants to leave in the readers mind the impression this somehow indicts Trump.
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Will Powers
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Kenneth P. Vogel
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MORE BAD NEWS FOR PODESTA, MERCURY & SKADDEN: As part of MANAFORT's plea deal, he agrees to testify before all grand juries in DC and "elsewhere.” The inquiries into @PodestaGroup, Mercury & @SkaddenArps are being run out of the Southern District of New York.
https://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2018/09/15/nolte-manafort-deal-looks-like-good-news-for-trump-terrible-news-for-democrats/