Paul Manafort: Guilty on 8 Charges, No Verdict on 10 - Page 6 - Politics and Economics

If he’s certain he’ll get a pardon then I guess the trial is a freeroll, but boy I wouldn’t trust Trump to hold up his end of a bargain with life in prison in on the line.

As it stands the judge has dismissed all his pre-trial motions and the prosecution is preparing immunity deals for five witnesses. The experts seem to think he’s dead to rights.

07-23-2018 , 02:25 PM

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I mean yeah, I assume along with all of you that a pardon is part of his gambit, but the legal bills have to be hurting him if the reports on his shaky financial situation are true. Does he think that he gets a refund if he gets pardoned?

07-23-2018 , 02:31 PM

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Another possibility is that he’s terrified Putin will poison his family if he talks, but that feels like something out of a movie.

07-23-2018 , 02:38 PM

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And it’s not like pleading guilty changes anything with respect to a pardon.

07-23-2018 , 03:16 PM

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Trial delayed until July 31

07-23-2018 , 03:36 PM

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The exculpatory evidence won't be here til the 29th ldo

07-30-2018 , 05:07 PM

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Why is Bernie's campaign manager (#6) on this list?

07-30-2018 , 05:19 PM

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google tells me he was involved in ukraine with yanakovich.

07-30-2018 , 05:21 PM

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07-30-2018 , 06:22 PM

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Trial delayed until July 31

gotta let them lawyers rack up some more billable hours

07-30-2018 , 06:50 PM

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gotta let them lawyers rack up some more billable hours

supposedly the delay was because manafort is broke. they claimed his accountant wouldn't release his own books back to him because that accountant said he never got paid so manny's lawyers had planned on just getting them through discovery during the trial

07-30-2018 , 07:14 PM

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IANAL, but I'm pretty sure that's not how this is supposed to work.

07-30-2018 , 08:27 PM

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Dat's a lotta rugs.

Mueller says Manafort earned more than $60M as consultant in Ukraine

07-31-2018 , 10:29 AM

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$21k for a watch. Dude has to be going through a rough transition from mega-baller to federal prisoner.

07-31-2018 , 10:39 AM

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If that Atlantic piece from a while back is any indication, he was a non-gambling degen who spent it as fast as he made it

07-31-2018 , 12:46 PM

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this guy made 60 million off the books and bought a $1m rug. a $21k watch is pathetic and i hate him for it

07-31-2018 , 12:56 PM

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If that Atlantic piece from a while back is any indication, he was a non-gambling degen who spent it as fast as he made it

Yeah, seemed like he understood all his income was illegal and just wanted to ball out until the ride came to an end.

07-31-2018 , 02:57 PM

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Moving right along.

https://twitter.com/AP/status/1024361678731993090

07-31-2018 , 03:00 PM

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Why the hell isn't this guy taking a plea deal?

07-31-2018 , 03:24 PM

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He doesn't want to "fall" onto any bullets perhaps?

07-31-2018 , 03:31 PM

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Or the fix is in.

07-31-2018 , 04:10 PM

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https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-ne...ial/index.html

live updates babyyyyy

07-31-2018 , 04:16 PM

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From the link Screamin posted.

""This is the way that they required it to be done," Zehnle said, explaining why oligarchs paid Manafort through secret foreign accounts. Prosecutors said Tuesday that Manafort hid 30 foreign bank accounts from US authorities. "

This reads as an actual joke, the way the onion would type up a summary of a defense attorney's opening statement. it's fascinating to me that it's the way the defense is going.