Billy_Bob
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Enjoy your delusions...Bro, there are documents showing he laundered money, had external accounts he never reported, and committed bank fraud. Tell us what else you need in order to convict somebody.Rod Rosenstine Subpoenaed in Manafort Case..
"Fox News legal analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano made this point on Wednesday during an appearance on the network’s morning show, “Fox & Friends.”
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The former judge made the same point later in the day during another appearance on the network:
NAPOLITANO: Paul Manafort’s lawyers are former federal prosecutors who are every bit as talented and experienced as the people on the other side of the courtroom.
One of their arguments is this: Paul Manafort was investigated by the federal government, by a team of federal prosecutors and FBI agents for all this stuff eight years ago, and they exonerated him.
And who was the young prosecutor that led that exoneration? Rod Rosenstein, who now runs the Justice Department.
And they have threatened to call Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein as their first witness and have him give to the jury all the reasons why he declined the prosecution of these charges eight years ago."
And now a subpoena has been issued for Rosenstine... The Mueller attorneys are scrambling now to stop him from testifying and have refused to conclude their case presentation on Friday.
The Manafort case is crumbling and they know it....
The documents include:
Jurors will see documents that suggest how money flowed offshore, including:
- Memos from Manafort to Yanukovych about bonuses, media strategy and the U.S. government. Three photos of Yanukovych are on the list.
- Dozens of emails between Manafort, Gates and Kilimnik
- Memos between Manafort and several Yanukovych allies in which they coordinated budgets, payments and political messaging
- Invoices and emails from U.S. consultants and pollsters who worked with Manafort in Ukraine
Jurors could see evidence relating to these purchases:
- “Deposit Analysis -- Foreign Source of Funds Received by Foreign Accounts”
- “Chart -- Analysis of Foreign Bank Accounts”
- “Telmar Leviathan Loan”
- Clothing and a wristwatch from the appointment-only House of Bijan in Beverly Hills, which promotes its couture as “wearable art.” The indictment refers to $520,000 in clothing purchases from there.
- Clothes from designer Alan Katzman’s Alan Couture in New York. That store appears to match one described in the indictment that received almost $850,000 from Manafort’s offshore accounts.
- Items from J&J Oriental Rug Gallery costing a total of $934,000
- A Mercedes Benz SL 550 that his wife, Kathleen, bought in 2012
- New York Yankees season tickets
He Allegedly Lied to Lenders...
Manafort often borrowed against properties he owned and lent money for real estate ventures by his son-in-law. Prosecutors accuse Manafort of bank fraud, saying he secured more than $20 million in loans by inflating his income and hiding his debts.
Records jurors may see include:
...And Claimed No Overseas Income
- Airbnb listings and renovations for a condominium that Manafort offered to renters in the Soho neighborhood of New York, despite saying in a mortgage application that it wasn’t a rental property, prosecutors say
- Emails between Manafort and Gates in October 2016 regarding profit and loan statements. Prosecutors allege they doctored the statement to inflate Manafort’s income by $3.5 million and then submitted it as part of a mortgage application.
- Emails between Manafort and Chicago banker Stephen Calk, whose Federal Savings Bank provided Manafort and a company tied to him with $16 million in loans. House Democrats have questioned whether Manafort received the loans in exchange for promises to Calk of a high-level job in the Trump administration. Two of the emails, in August 2016, refer to Calk’s work history and “professional bio.”
- Emails between Manafort and his then-son-in-law Jeffrey Yohai, whose developments with Manafort ended up in bankruptcy. Yohai pleaded guilty in a fraud investigation, and he’s cooperating with investigators, a person familiar with the probe said.
The foreign earnings that prosecutors say were funneled through offshore bank accounts aren’t included in Manafort’s U.S. tax declarations.
Manafort’s tax returns listed $504,744 in income in 2010, $3.1 million in 2011, $5.4 million in 2012, $1.9 million in 2013 and almost $3 million in 2014, according to the indictment. He also failed to “check the box” to disclose offshore financial accounts or file reports of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts, with the Treasury Department, prosecutors said.
By contrast, days after his initial indictment on Oct. 27, Manafort gave lenders estimates of his wealth ranging from $19 million to $136 million, prosecutors said. They said Manafort’s holdings were “substantial if difficult to quantify precisely because of his varying representations.”
Jurors may see records including:
- Bank statements and loan documents for Manafort accounts in Cyprus, the U.K., and St. Vincent and the Grenadines
- General ledgers and financial statements for Manafort’s consulting companies
- Personal and business tax returns
- Wire transfers to third-party vendors benefiting Manafort
- Emails asking questions about Manafort’s tax returns
Yeah, this case is a nothing-burger.
Your going to be very disappointed.