Manafort Trial

[Avatar4321]

So far there have been a lot of allegations and accusations but not many facts. When the trial is over we will know what the facts are.

If it's documented then it's a fact.

Duh!

So the countless documents showing Democrats being the party of slavery, racism, segregation, concentration camps, Jim Crow, etc are indesputable?

 

[Avatar4321]

So sounds like you are pro money laundering. You know free money without taxes.

Or how about just pro “innocent until proven guilty?”

Yep, just like Obama and Hillary.

I’m al for putting them on trial and them being innocent until proven guilty.

Problem is Hillary uses politics to keep from ever seeing a courtroom because she will be found guilty

 

[jillian]

DAY 2: MUELLER TEAM GETS LECTURED, LAW LAID DOWN

Mueller team lectured by judge in Manafort case

Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s prosecutors were lectured by a federal judge on Wednesday for the language they’ve used in the courtroom and more, as the trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort entered its second day.

The Mueller team was later rebuffed again by Ellis when they tried to introduce photos that eventually would become public of Manafort’s closets filled with suits and high-end clothing.

While it’s part of their effort to paint Manafort as a tax scofflaw who spent big on luxury items, Ellis would not allow the photos for now.

Mueller trying to turn court room into class warfare arena, putting having money on trial?!

you repeat Russian propaganda BS so deftly.

hack

 

[jillian]

So sounds like you are pro money laundering. You know free money without taxes.

Or how about just pro “innocent until proven guilty?”

Yep, just like Obama and Hillary.

I’m al for putting them on trial and them being innocent until proven guilty.

Problem is Hillary uses politics to keep from ever seeing a courtroom because she will be found guilty

there was nothing to try there, nutter.

you keep pretending you know something about this stuff.

you're not fooling anyone

 

[Valerie]

In early June 2016, the trio of Donald Trump Jr., then-campaign manager Paul Manafort, and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner took a meeting with a Putin-connected Russian lawyer. Former Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon has dubbed that meeting “treasonous.”



A Potential Game Changer

The allegation that Russia funneled money into the NRA – to directly support Trump’s presidential bid – is staggering. Until now, we’ve understood the Russian support of Trump to have been oblique, delivered by a cadre of Facebook and Twitter trolls, and by the release of hacked DNC and Clinton campaign emails through Wikileaks.

The notion that the Kremlin was supporting Trump’s presidential bid financially – and through an organization that holds itself up as a paragon of American patriotism – is almost unreal.


The Trump-Russia-NRA Connection: Here’s What You Need to Know – Rolling Stone

Paul Manafort, President Trump's ex-campaign chairman, is being investigated for possible money laundering...


Ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort investigated for possible money laundering: report

FBI: Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort: Report

Trump campaign manager Manafort offered to brief Russian billionaire during 2016 race: Washington Post

 

[Avatar4321]

You can't hide 30 formally secret bank accounts overseas.
You can't hide 60 million dollars after they've found it and identified it.
You can't hide the FACT you never paid taxes..

If the evidence was obtained by an improper search warrant or fraudulent information on the search warrant application, the evidence is excluded at trial.

Further, the facts are that a lot of people had a lot bigger disputes with the IRS than this little bit of cash. Warren Buffett had or has a billion dollar dispute. If mistakes are made, the IRS can say you owe them money, but it isn't a criminal offense unless you had a suitable mens rea.

Fuk Warren Buffett. He's not on trial.

Manafort is. By professionals who don't make mistakes.

Manafort is fuked.

They don't make mistakes?

Andrew Weissmann: Robert Mueller's dirty cop

• In 1997 Andrew Weissmann was officially reprimanded by a judge in the Eastern District of New York for withholding evidence
• Weissmann was reported to the Department of Justice Inspector General and Senate Judiciary Committee for alleged “corrupt legal practices.
• A formal letter from U.S. Attorney Eastern District of New York Zachary Carter requested the judge to remove Weissman’s name, according to documents.
• Civil rights and Criminal Defense Attorney David Schoen said Weissmann needs to be investigated for alleged past misconduct in court cases.

More specifically, Weissmann withheld evidence to a court that would have helped the other side in a criminal case, which is required by law. In that previous case:

Evidence suggested that Scarpa was involved in a personal relationship with his FBI handler, Lindley DeVecchio. DeVeccio, who was also a witness in a case connected to the Persico case. Weissmann had DeVecchio testify against Michael Sessa, a captain in the Colombo family, despite knowing DeVecchio was under investigation by the FBI for his relationship with Scarpa. Weissmann and his team failed disclose that to the courts and presented him as a solid witness in the case, according to Schoen and court documents.
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Then there was the Arthur Andersen case, which with Weissmann, shows a pattern of malfeasance. According to the Daily Beast:

During his years at the Justice Department, Weissmann built a reputation as a prosecutor willing to push the envelope – sometimes with disastrous results. He worked on the Justice Department’s Enron probe from 2002 to 2005. And while he was there, he helmed the prosecution of Arthur Andersen, Enron’s accounting firm, arguing that it had obstructed justice by destroying documents investigators would have needed.

Weissmann and his team took the aggressive step of indicting the entire accounting firm. According to a source familiar with the case, the firm’s defense attorneys met with them [and asked Weissmann and his team] not to do so before the indictment, arguing that the firm would be certain to dissolve if it were indicted, leaving thousands of people jobless.

“Their response indicated they didn’t care,” said the person familiar with the case.

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Well it’s documented it must be fact

 

[Polishprince]

Consider this possibility, libs. All of these alleged accounts and international payoffs were just cooked up in attempt to try and frame Manafort, and get him to tell tales about President Trump?

The Deep State has it in for Trump, Mueller has fouled up investigations before (e.g., Hatfill), so he has a CYA story if the scheme collapses.

Remember Schumer's warning to his president “Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you,"

This is what is happening here, IMHO, Manafort just got caught up in the palace intrigue.

 

[Avatar4321]

Mueller could lose this.....he sent in a bunch of eye rolling disrespectful Trump haters into court and Judge Ellis ain't having any of it....Ellis said he doesn't expect this trial to last the three weeks he estimated.....

I have to agree. The biggest news I’ve seen out of this is the prosecution said he is wealthy. Not exactly a smoking gun

 

[Avatar4321]

Some food for thought...

Not part of this case.

Lakota doesn’t have a clue what this case is about

 

[hadit]

Where's the uproar over Crooked Hillary and her corrupt Clinton foundation? But yet the fake news is obsessed with Manafort's tax status? Which has nothing to do with collusion...

Manafort's trial is not about collusion. Don't you follow the news?

Did Mueller fail in his appointed task?

 

[Valerie]

"Indeed, given the stringent requirements that must be met, both at senior levels in the executive branch, as well as with the FISA court judges, to conduct such surveillance of an American in the United States, much less a senior campaign official in the course of an ongoing Presidential campaign, such an effort suggests significant cause for concern,"



--The screws appear to be tightening on Manafort.--

 

[Lakhota]

THE SHADY BUNCH: Here Are The Key Players Of Paul Manafort’s Trial

He is now on trial for bank fraud and tax evasion charges in Virginia while he awaits another in D.C.

Good luck, Mr. Mueller! American patriots support you!

 

[sealybobo]

DAY 2: MUELLER TEAM GETS LECTURED, LAW LAID DOWN

Mueller team lectured by judge in Manafort case

Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s prosecutors were lectured by a federal judge on Wednesday for the language they’ve used in the courtroom and more, as the trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort entered its second day.

The Mueller team was later rebuffed again by Ellis when they tried to introduce photos that eventually would become public of Manafort’s closets filled with suits and high-end clothing.

While it’s part of their effort to paint Manafort as a tax scofflaw who spent big on luxury items, Ellis would not allow the photos for now.

Mueller trying to turn court room into class warfare arena, putting having money on trial?!

How did he get the money?

This is trumps smoking gun

Trump will pardon him

 

[Missouri_Mike]

Sure seems like this is going to become another unhinged lefty failure.

 

[Lakhota]

Some food for thought...

Not part of this case.

Lakota doesn’t have a clue what this case is about

As I said in post #38: Manafort's trial is not about collusion.

 

[easyt65]

I am waiting for the defense to call John and Fat Tony Podesta to testify...they were the flip side of the same coin Manafort was on...

...and Mueller is now protecting them like his padawan protected Hillary...

 

[easyt65]

DAY 2: MUELLER TEAM GETS LECTURED, LAW LAID DOWN

Mueller team lectured by judge in Manafort case

Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s prosecutors were lectured by a federal judge on Wednesday for the language they’ve used in the courtroom and more, as the trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort entered its second day.

The Mueller team was later rebuffed again by Ellis when they tried to introduce photos that eventually would become public of Manafort’s closets filled with suits and high-end clothing.

While it’s part of their effort to paint Manafort as a tax scofflaw who spent big on luxury items, Ellis would not allow the photos for now.

Mueller trying to turn court room into class warfare arena, putting having money on trial?!

How did he get the money?

This is trumps smoking gun

Trump will pardon him

Ccareful....Mueller can't make it about HAVING money...or the 'R' word.

 

[toobfreak]

DAY 2: MUELLER TEAM GETS LECTURED, LAW LAID DOWN

Mueller team lectured by judge in Manafort case

Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s prosecutors were lectured by a federal judge on Wednesday for the language they’ve used in the courtroom and more, as the trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort entered its second day.

The Mueller team was later rebuffed again by Ellis when they tried to introduce photos that eventually would become public of Manafort’s closets filled with suits and high-end clothing.

While it’s part of their effort to paint Manafort as a tax scofflaw who spent big on luxury items, Ellis would not allow the photos for now.

Mueller trying to turn court room into class warfare arena, putting having money on trial?!

Anther crack Mueller investigation jackknifes in their faces as the clown's hopes of proving Trump a russian colluder are dashed to the ground in tears. Trump-bashers prepare across the nation to begin jumping off the roofs of their homes.

 

[sealybobo]

DAY 2: MUELLER TEAM GETS LECTURED, LAW LAID DOWN

Mueller team lectured by judge in Manafort case

Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s prosecutors were lectured by a federal judge on Wednesday for the language they’ve used in the courtroom and more, as the trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort entered its second day.

The Mueller team was later rebuffed again by Ellis when they tried to introduce photos that eventually would become public of Manafort’s closets filled with suits and high-end clothing.

While it’s part of their effort to paint Manafort as a tax scofflaw who spent big on luxury items, Ellis would not allow the photos for now.

Mueller trying to turn court room into class warfare arena, putting having money on trial?!

How did he get the money?

This is trumps smoking gun

Trump will pardon him

Ccareful....Mueller can't make it about HAVING money...or the 'R' word.

He’s guilty

 

[rightwinger]

DAY 2: MUELLER TEAM GETS LECTURED, LAW LAID DOWN

Mueller team lectured by judge in Manafort case

Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s prosecutors were lectured by a federal judge on Wednesday for the language they’ve used in the courtroom and more, as the trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort entered its second day.

The Mueller team was later rebuffed again by Ellis when they tried to introduce photos that eventually would become public of Manafort’s closets filled with suits and high-end clothing.

While it’s part of their effort to paint Manafort as a tax scofflaw who spent big on luxury items, Ellis would not allow the photos for now.

Mueller trying to turn court room into class warfare arena, putting having money on trial?!

That’s it?

I thought you had something important

Closets and dirty words?