Manafort has shown a disregard for the situation he is in with Robert Mueller’s investigation of his actions….
The last staw seems too be the report that Mnanafort was reaching out people to coach them on what they would say to Mueller investigators….
His efforts on this have landed him in jail until his trial….
A federal judge revoked Paul Manafort’s bail and sent him to jail on Friday to await trial, citing new charges that Mr. Manafort had tried to influence the testimony of two of the government’s witnesses after he had been granted bail.
Mr. Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, had been allowed to post a $10 million bond and remain at home while awaiting his September trial on a host of charges, including money laundering and false statements.
But last week, prosecutors working for the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, filed two new counts of obstruction of justice against Mr. Manafort and asked that his bail be revoked — or that at least the conditions be revised — because he had committed new crimes.
In a superseding indictment, the prosecutors claimed that Mr. Manafort and a close associate, Konstantin V. Kilimnik, had contacted the two witnesses this year, hoping to persuade them to testify that Mr. Manafort had never lobbied in the United States for Viktor F. Yanukovych, the pro-Moscow president of Ukraine who fled to Russia in 2014 after a popular uprising….
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BTW?…..
Trump has put space between himself and Manafort…
He’s says he spent little time with Manafort….
THAT is NOT TRUE….
The guy ran Trump’s campaign from May, 2016 to August , 2016
Update on Manafort….
He will stay in jail for the whole trial says the judge….
His trial is beginning….
A jury has been seated….
He could get up to a 100 years in jail for his ‘alleged’ financial misdeeds…
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Oh, and Manafort is under indictment in another court…..
So this is just the first case he’s dealing with…
Most people would have sat down will Mueller….
Why hasn’t Manafort?
Maybe he thinks Trump will pardon him?
Damn!….
via twitter….
Noah Rothman
@NoahCRothman
Literally everyone knew Manafort was shady when Trump hired him. He didn’t need the FBI to brief him on his new campaign chairman. If they Googled him, they knew
Update from the 3rd day of the first Manafort trial….
Paul Manafort’s longtime bookkeeper testified against him Thursday, telling a Virginia jury that his seven-figure lifestyle lasted until about 2015 when the cash ran out, the bills piled up and he and his business partner began trying to fudge numbers to secure loans.
The dry but potentially damaging testimony from the bookkeeper, Heather Washkuhn, appeared to undercut Manafort’s defense against bank and tax charges, which is that his business partner is responsible for any financial misdeeds. But Washkuhn testified that Manafort approved “every penny.”
Washkuhn spent hours on the witness stand, describing account balances, bills received and payments. Her testimony is critical to the case being heard by a six-man, six-woman jury in Alexandria, Va., as Manafort, who was then-candidate Donald Trump’s campaign chairman for a period in 2016, is charged with running a years-long scheme to hide millions of dollars from the Internal Revenue Service, and then, when his income dried up, lying to get bank loans so he could continue living the good life.
[The spectacular rise and fall of Paul Manafort]
Washkuhn characterized Manafort as a “very knowledgeable” client. “He was very detail-oriented. He approved every penny of everything we paid,” she said….
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Manafort trial Update…..
Jim Sciutto via twitter
Rick Gates stated he and Paul Manafort had 15 foreign accounts they did not report to the federal government, and knew it was illegal. He said he did not submit the required forms “at Mr. Manafort’s direction.” #ManafortTrial
Gates testimony begs the question….
How do you pardon someone who is convicted of beating the government out of over a million dollars in back owed taxes and went to the Russian’s for money to bail himself out?
Wow!
That same thing could apply to someone else????
After beating up Mueller’s lawyer Greg Andres since day one in the Manafort trial , and Andres pushing back ?
The judge in the trial tells the jury ‘put aside’ me criticizing the guy….. ‘I sometimes make mistakes’…..
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More on the judge , 78 year old T.S. Ellis III and the case…
The 78-year-old Ronald Reagan appointee has repeatedly tweaked Mueller’s team, on everything from the logic of their assertions to a prosecutor’s informality in answering a question with a “yeah” instead of “yes.” He has hurried along their case and blocked them from introducing some evidence of Manafort’s lavish lifestyle.
Taken on their own, the individual rebukes are relatively minor. But some legal experts say that, cumulatively, they could plant doubt in the mind of jurors about the strength of the prosecution’s case. Renato Mariotti, a prominent former federal prosecutor, tweeted Wednesday that Ellis has made “improper statements that have hurt the prosecution.”…
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Manafort Trial Update….
Jury questions to the judge….
After roughly seven hours of deliberation Thursday, the six men and six women on the jury deciding the fate of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort will require at least another day to hand down their verdict.
At approximately 5:06 p.m., Judge T.S. Ellis III read a handwritten note from the jury with four questions. One of the questions referred to the requirements for people filing reports of foreign bank and financial accounts, or FBARs. Another asked the judge to redefine “reasonable doubt.”
The questions Thursday afternoon provide insight into the debates jurors are sorting out as they try to come to a consensus agreement on whether Manafort is guilty or innocent on none, some, or all, of the 18 counts of tax evasion and bank fraud….
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