It just gets crazier and crazier….
Manafort is just digging himself deeper into a hole….
A judge could honor Mueller’s people request for Manafort to go to jail until his upcoming trial…
Federal prosecutors on Monday accused President Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, of attempting to tamper with witnesses in his federal tax and lobbying case.
In court documents, prosecutors working for the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, said that Mr. Manafort tried to contact witnesses by phone and through an encrypted messaging program.
Prosecutors said that was a violation of Mr. Manafort’s release while he awaits trial. They asked a federal judge to revise the terms of his release or revoke it entirely, which would send him to jail until trial.
An F.B.I. agent, Brock W. Domin, wrote in court documents that at least one witness reported Mr. Manafort’s contact and said that he appeared to be trying to coach their story about Mr. Manafort’s lobbying practices…..
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Could Manafort be sent to jail to await a trial?
Former U.S. attorney Harry Litman said he expects President Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, to be sent to federal prison by the end of the week.
“Prosecutors hate this, judges hate this, and he’s going to have to bring his toothbrush to court on Friday because the statute says, if they find this happened, there’s a presumption that no circumstances exist that will get him safely there for trial,” Litman said Tuesday on MSNBC.
“So there’s the real prospect that he now goes to jail, never to leave even until the end of his sentence,” he said….
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It’s Friday afternoon…. which must mean it’s Mueller time.
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New indictments brought against Paul Manafort and Russian citizen Konstantin Kilimnik