Heeey, Witless Willie still crowing about the weak case against Manafort?

Why is he

stupid enough to tamper with witnesses

a) who have immediately ratted him out?
b) if he is innocent and/or Mueller has such a weak case?
b) gonna get pardoned?

Good news is, they're gonna remove Paulie's TWO ankle bracelets. BAD news is, they're gonna be replaced by a pair of handcuffs.:cripwalk:uppy:Stop-SS--

I await your analysis with BREATHLESS anticipation...@)@)@)@)@)@)

Lol, this is from months ago, but, for soome reason, it seems relevant. C'mon, Witless Willie, cat got yer crotch?


Manafort Left an Incriminating Paper Trail Because He Couldn't Figure Out How to Convert PDFs to Word Files (slate.com)

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Posted by msmash on Friday February 23, 2018 @04:40PM from the not-the-onion dept.
There are two types of people in this world: those who know how to convert PDFs into Word documents and those who are indicted for money laundering. Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort is the second kind of person , Slate reports. From the report:Back in October, a grand jury indictment charged Manafort and his business associate Rick Gates with a variety of crimes, including conspiring "to defraud the United States." On Thursday, special counsel Robert Mueller filed a new indictment against the pair, substantially expanding the charges. As one former federal prosecutor told the Washington Post, Manafort and Gates' methods appear to have been "extensive and bold and greedy with a capital 'G,' but ... not all that sophisticated." One new detail from the indictment, however, points to just how unsophisticated Manafort seems to have been. Here's the relevant passage from the indictment. I've bolded the most important bits:

Manafort and Gates made numerous false and fraudulent representations to secure the loans. For example, Manafort provided the bank with doctored [profit and loss statements] for [Davis Manafort Inc.] for both 2015 and 2016, overstating its income by millions of dollars. The doctored 2015 DMI P&L submitted to Lender D was the same false statement previously submitted to Lender C, which overstated DMI's income by more than $4 million. The doctored 2016 DMI P&L was inflated by Manafort by more than $3.5 million. To create the false 2016 P&L, on or about October 21, 2016, Manafort emailed Gates a .pdf version of the real 2016 DMI P&L, which showed a loss of more than $600,000. Gates converted that .pdf into a "Word" document so that it could be edited, which Gates sent back to Manafort. Manafort altered that "Word" document by adding more than $3.5 million in income. He then sent this falsified P&L to Gates and asked that the "Word" document be converted back to a .pdf, which Gates did and returned to Manafort. Manafort then sent the falsified 2016 DMI P&L .pdf to Lender D.So here's the essence of what went wrong for Manafort and Gates, according to Mueller's investigation: Manafort allegedly wanted to falsify his company's income, but he couldn't figure out how to edit the PDF.

This friggin' moron started calling & texting people, literally the day after he was indicted to try and get them to lie. He is almost as dumb as Witless Willie, who ran his mouth about what a weak case the government had, ROTFMAO!!!! The brain dead putz(WW this time, not PM) ain't got SHIT to say towards the question posed in post # 1 of this thread, I wonder why?:hahahahahSlapping-silly90)):think2:kth)(&^ointer:azzkick(&^Shush()*

http://wgntv.com/2018/06/04/mueller-accuses-manafort-of-witness-tampering/


Mueller accuses Manafort of witness tampering

POSTED 8:24 PM, JUNE 4, 2018, BY CNN WIRE
WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 23: Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort arrives for a hearing at the E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse on May 23, 2018 in Washington, DC. Manafort was indicted last year by a federal grand jury and has pleaded not guilty to all charges against him including, conspiracy against the United States, conspiracy to launder money, and being an unregistered agent of a foreign principal. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

The Special Counsel’s Office has accused Paul Manafort of attempting to shape potential witnesses’ testimony and has asked to send him to jail as he awaits his trial, according to a filing in DC District Court on Monday night.
Manafort is currently out on house arrest and a $10 million unsecured bail, and is awaiting a trial in Virginia scheduled for late July and a trial in DC scheduled to begin in September. He has pleaded not guilty to charges related to his failure to disclose his lobbying work for a foreign government.
Tampering with a witness is a crime in itself — and it’s one Manafort has not yet been charged with.
Manafort’s lawyers did not immediately respond to CNN’s request for comment Monday night.
While never naming the people who were allegedly contacted by Manafort, prosecutors say Manafort “repeatedly contacted” two people who worked for him and previously assisted in his lobbying and public relations efforts for Ukrainian politicians. Manafort sought to “secure materially false testimony concerning the activities of” an influential group of European leaders, called the Hapsburg group, that Manafort once used to lobby on behalf of Ukraine, the prosecutors say.
After Manafort’s charges were adjusted in DC federal court related to his lobbying work in late February — on the same day Rick Gates pleaded guilty to lying to investigators about the group — Manafort called one of the people’s cell phones and texted the person encrypted messages, prosecutors say. “We should talk. I have made clear that they worked in Europe,” Manafort’s text said. He also called the person twice the week after Gates’ plea, according to prosecutors.
One of the terms of Manafort’s bail and supervised release was that he not commit any crimes. Another Manafort colleague attempted to contact the employees to help Manafort get in touch with them. One of those contacts was an encrypted message that outlined Manafort’s “summary,” prosecutors said, “that the Hapsburg group never lobbied in the United States.”
One of the people told investigators that Manafort’s attempts to contact them were “an effort to get them to relay a message to the Hapsburg group: if the members of the Hapsburg group were contacted by anyone, they should say that their lobbying and public relations work was exclusively in Europe — a representation that would be contrary” to what investigators have found, the prosecutors wrote.
The prosecutors argue that they have “little confidence that restrictions short of detention will assure Manafort’s compliance” with the court and keep him from committing more crimes before his trial, the filing said.

Speak UP, Witless Willie, where's your "spot on" analysis of Manafort's chances, lol?

Like I said, who is dumber, Paulie Numbuts, or Witless Willie? Too close to call, lol. By the by, this latest charge gets thrown on top of the giant woodpile, 20 years, all by itself. Witless, your big, stupid, pie hole is kinda quiet right now, nothing to say? :hahahahahSlapping-silly90)):think2:kth)(&^ointer:azzkick(&^Shush()*

https://www.yahoo.com/news/former-trump-campaign-chair-paul-141642810.html

Former Trump Campaign Chair Paul Manafort to Be Jailed for ‘Stupidest’ Case of Witness Tampering: Ex-DOJ Official

Gillian Edevane,Newsweek Wed, Jun 6 7:16 AM PDT

Former United States Attorney and University of California law professor Harry Litman speculated Tuesday that former Trump campaign adviser Paul Manafort will be headed to jail for alleged witness tampering. His prediction came after special counsel Robert Mueller asked a judge to yank Manafort's bail on Monday for allegedly attempting to incite perjury among witnesses.
Litman made the prediction during an appearance on MSNBC's Deadline: White House with Nicolle Wallace. Manafort's behavior was a textbook case of what not to do while on pretrial release, Litman said.
“This is the stupidest thing that a defendant can do, this sort of witness tampering," the former deputy assistant attorney general said.

Prosecutors allege that Manafort attempted to contact witnesses by phone and via WhatsApp, an encrypted messaging program. Two witnesses told investigators that the embattled former campaign chair attempted to coax them into perjuring themselves.
“Prosecutors hate this, judges hate this," Litman explained. "He’s going to have to bring his toothbrush to court on Friday because the statue says, if they find this happened, there’s a presumption that no circumstances exist that will get him safely there for trial."
He continued, "So there’s the real prospect that he now goes to jail, never to leave even until the end of his sentence.”


Judy Amy Berman is expected to rule on Manafort's bail on June 15. The embattled former campaign chair was indicted in October of last year in connection with Mueller's probe into election meddling, along with his former business partner Rick Gates and Trump adviser George Papadopoulos. Manafort, who resigned from the Trump campaign in August 2016, is now facing a slew of federal charges, including conspiracy to launder money and engaging in a conspiracy against the United States. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges and maintained his innocence against the witnessing claims in a statement.
"Mr. Manafort is innocent and nothing about this latest allegation changes our defense," his spokesperson Jason Maloni said in a public statement. "We will do our talking in court."
Manafort's former business partner and co-defendant, Rick Gates, pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges and lying to federal investigators.

President Donald Trump has repeatedly slammed Mueller's investigation and branded it a "witch hunt." He has also tried to downplay Manafort's role in his campaign, as he did via Twitter on Sunday.
"Paul Manafort came into the campaign very late and was with us for a short period of time (he represented Ronald Reagan, Bob Dole & many others over the years), but we should have been told that [Former FBI director James] Comey and the boys were doing a number on him, and he wouldn’t have been hired!," Trump tweeted.

Heeeeeeeey, Witless Willie, I can't HEAR you, lol:think2::ears:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/43e9d91f-7e77-3760-bfc2-e7ae48687b57/ex-cia-chief-explains-how.html

Ex-CIA chief explains how Mueller's new Manafort allegations are a “major signal”




salon.com•June 5, 2018

MSNBC analyst Jeremy Bash explained the message sent by special counsel Robert Mueller in his allegations of witness tampering against Paul Manafort — and he said President Donald Trump should be worried.
Mueller asked a federal judge to jail Manafort or alter the terms of his pretrial release after witnesses told prosecutors the former Trump campaign chairman tried to influence their testimony in his federal tax and money laundering case.
Bash, a former chief of staff to Leon Panetta at both the CIA and the Department of Defense, told “Morning Joe” that Mueller’s announcement — which came out of nowhere as the president and his lawyers appear increasingly anxious about the investigation — was a clear signal to Trump and his associates.

“It’s also a major signal from Bob Mueller and the prosecutors that they take obstruction of justice very seriously, because, after all, what is Manafort accused of doing?” Bash said. “He’s accused of obstructing the Mueller investigation by trying to get his story straight with potential witnesses.”
Manafort was indicted in October, along with his longtime lieutenant Rick Gates, who has since pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors investigating the pair’s work for a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine.


“The whole effort to follow the Russian money to influence the U.S. political scene, that, after all, is what Bob Mueller is investigating,” Bash said. “Now here comes Manafort to obstruct that investigation. It’s a major signal to the president, to Rudy Giuliani, to the president’s other inner circle members, that if you obstruct this investigation, if you lie, if you witness tamper, we’re going after you.”

Heeeeeey, Witless Willie, what UP, bitch? C'mon, CHUMP, dazzle us with your crackerjack analysis as to how the case Paulie Numbnuts is weak, lol.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/07/us/politics/mueller-manafort-witnesses.html

With Mueller Closing In, Manafort’s Allies Abandon Him


By Kenneth P. Vogel, Sharon LaFraniere and Jason Horowitz June 7, 2018


WASHINGTON — The special counsel’s accusation this week that Paul Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, tried to tamper with potential witnesses originated with two veteran journalists who turned on Mr. Manafort after working closely with him to prop up the former Russia-aligned president of Ukraine, interviews and documents show.
The two journalists, who helped lead a project to which prosecutors say Mr. Manafort funneled more than $2 million from overseas accounts, are the latest in a series of onetime Manafort business partners who have provided damaging evidence to Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Their cooperation with the government has increasingly isolated Mr. Manafort as he awaits trial on charges of violating financial, tax and federal lobbying disclosure laws.
Mr. Manafort’s associates say he feels betrayed by the former business partners, to whom he collectively steered millions of dollars over the years for consulting, lobbying and legal work intended to bolster the reputation of Viktor F. Yanukovych, the former president of Ukraine. Mr. Manafort has told associates that he believes Mr. Mueller’s team is using the business partners to pressure him to flip on Mr. Trump in a manner similar to the one used to prosecute the energy giant Enron in the early 2000s by a Justice Department task force that included some lawyers now serving on Mr. Mueller’s team.
“Anybody who is a student of the Enron prosecution sees a very close parallel,” said Michael R. Caputo, a former Trump campaign operative, who has known Mr. Manafort for three decades and spoke with him on Wednesday. Another associate said Mr. Manafort and some of his close allies were reading a book by the conservative lawyer and commentator Sidney Powell that claims misconduct in the Enron prosecution. And Mr. Caputo, who was interviewed by Mr. Mueller’s team last month, said that “when Paul decided to fight, he knew the lay of the land.”

Prosecutors assert that Mr. Manafort’s fight included trying to shape the accounts that former business partners offered prosecutors. In court filings this week, they said that starting in late February, Mr. Manafort repeatedly tried to reach the two journalists — with whom he had fallen out of contact until recently — to coordinate their accounts about their work to tamp down international criticism of Mr. Yanukovych for corruption, persecuting rivals and pivoting toward Russia and its president, Vladimir V. Putin. The prosecutors did not name the journalists, but three people familiar with the project identified them as Alan Friedman and Eckart Sager.Both men fended off the overtures, which included phone calls and encrypted text messages from Mr. Manafort and a longtime associate, whom prosecutors have not named but was identified by people close to Mr. Manafort as Konstantin V. Kilimnik, a former Russian Army linguist who prosecutors claim has ties to Russian intelligence.
Instead of engaging, Mr. Friedman and Mr. Sager informed Mr. Mueller’s team of the efforts to reach them, according to prosecutors. Mr. Friedman accused Mr. Manafort of trying to “suborn perjury” by persuading him to lie to investigators, according to a declaration by an F.B.I. agent on the case. Neither Mr. Friedman nor Mr. Sager could be reached for comment.The prosecutors are arguing that because of these allegations, a federal judge should revise the terms of Mr. Manafort’s bail or even send him to jail while he awaits trial. Mr. Manafort, who posted a $10 million bond and has been confined to his home since October, has until Friday at midnight to respond to the prosecutors’ accusations. His spokesman brushed aside prosecutors’ allegations of witness tampering, but declined to comment on Mr. Manafort’s relationship with Mr. Friedman and Mr. Sager.They join a growing list of lobbyists, consultants and lawyers who worked on various contracts related to Mr. Yanukovych’s government, political party or supporters and are now cooperating with the government’s prosecution of Mr. Manafort. His associates say he was most stung by the decision of his longtime business partner, Rick Gates, who served as Mr. Trump’s former deputy presidential campaign manager, to cooperate as part of a deal in which he pleaded guilty to financial fraud and lying to investigators.
Alex van der Zwaan, who worked with Mr. Gates and Mr. Kilimnik on a report used to defend Mr. Yanukovych against accusations of prosecuting a rival for political purposes, cooperated with Mr. Mueller’s team before he pleaded guilty in February to lying to investigators. A former lawyer with the international firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, he was sentenced to 30 days and a hefty fine.
Other former associates who have cooperated with Mr. Mueller’s team include employees from the lobbying firms Mercury Public Affairs and the Podesta Group, both of which worked for a nonprofit based in Brussels called the European Center for a Modern Ukraine, which was overseen by Mr. Manafort.
The effort complemented the one with which Mr. Friedman and Mr. Sager were involved from 2011 until 2014 to enlist prominent European politicians to vouch for Mr. Yanukovych. From overseas bank accounts, Mr. Manafort funneled $2.4 million to fund the activities of the coalition overseen by Mr. Friedman and Mr. Sager, which helped place op-eds in the Western news media and arrange speaking engagements.
Mr. Sager, for example, worked with Mr. Manafort and others to arrange a March 2013 visit to Washington by Romano Prodi, the former prime minister of Italy and the former president of the European Commission. Mr. Prodi met with key members of Congress, including Representative Ed Royce of California, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Representative Eliot L. Engel of New York, the committee’s ranking Democrat.
Mr. Friedman helped prepare an Op-Ed by Mr. Prodi that was published by The New York Times in February 2014, according to prosecutors. The piece argued that Mr. Yanukovych could bring Ukraine back from the brink of collapse and that European leaders should not threaten sanctions against him or the nation.
The day after the commentary was published, Mr. Yanukovych fled Ukraine amid protests of his government’s corruption and pivot toward Moscow, eventually arriving in Russia and effectively ending his presidency.
In an interview on Thursday, Mr. Prodi said that he wrote the Op-Ed, although he acknowledged that he and Mr. Friedman, whom he said he knew only as an author and columnist and not as a lobbyist, had “exchanged views” and maybe “some language.” He added, “When I write an article and sign this document, it’s my responsibility.” He said that he had no knowledge of Mr. Manafort’s involvement, but, after checking his records, he confirmed that Mr. Sager “arranged my appointments in Washington.”


While prosecutors are now relying on Mr. Friedman’s and Mr. Sager’s accounts to accuse Mr. Manafort of trying to undermine the case that he evaded lobbying laws, Mr. Friedman and Mr. Sager have been accused of misrepresenting themselves as independent journalists while being paid by foreign governments or their intermediaries. Mr. Friedman’s firm, Fact-Based Communications, went bankrupt several years ago after disclosures that the Malaysian government was paying the company at the same it was producing supposedly independent documentaries and reports about Malaysia.Mr. Friedman, who worked at various points for The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal and The International Herald Tribune, has continued to work as a journalist in Italy, where he wrote an authorized biography of the former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi. In mid-2016, when Mr. Manafort was serving as Mr. Trump’s campaign chairman, Mr. Friedman had a one-on-one interview with Mr. Trump. Since then, he has criticized the president.One former official at Fact-Based Communications said it would not be hard to imagine Mr. Friedman turning on a business partner if it served his ends.“Loyalty did not always feature strongly among his values,” Neil Boyde, a former chief financial officer at the company, said in an interview.Mr. Sager, a former producer for CNN, was accused last year of publishing articles that defended corrupt Azerbaijani interests in exchange for $2.6 million from Azerbaijani sources. The allegations were made in a report by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, an international network of investigative journalists.

Lol, right now Witless Willies wouldn't say "shit" if he had a mouthful-and the "no collusion" schmucks have their heads firmly up their asses in silence, as well(notice the highlighted part):

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...cted-for-collusion-with-a-Russian-Intel-agent

The Trump Campaign Chair has been indicted for conspiracy and collusion with a Russian Intel asset






Frank Vyan Walton

Community

Saturday June 09, 2018 · 8:42 AM PDT


Let’s be honest, most of the so-called “leftist” main stream media won’t admit the truth. Trump Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort has now received his fourth indictment, this one includes seven counts for conspiracy to defraud the United States, witness tampering, in an effort coverup his money laundering, his actions as an unregistered foreign agent with false statements and obstruction of justice which all occurred between 2006 and 2018 and involved an active Russian Intelligence operative.
Manafort’s partner Rick Gates who has already pleaded guilty to many similar crimes and is now a cooperating witness is mentioned several times, also charged in the indictment is Manafort’s long time employee Konstantin Kilimnick who besides running Manafort’s offices in Kiev where he acted as a go between for Manafort with Russian Oligarch’s such as Aluminum magnate Oleg Deripaska — whom he had offered to provide a private briefing on the Trump Campaign — also happens to have current ties to Russian Military Intelligence (GRU) as was explained in the indictment against London based lawyer Alex Van Der Zwaan for his lying to the FBI about Gates being in contact with Kiliimnick for which he just finished serving 30 days in Federal prison.

The bulk of the indictment involves Manafort’s money laundering which occurred before he was part of the Trump campaign and his more recent attempts to use encrypted apps to contact and influence witnesses to support him on his previous three indictments but the fact is that during the entire time, including during the election, he was in near constant contact with Kilimnick, who again was a Russian Intelligence asset.

That. Is. Collusion with Russia.

Trumpsters have been chanting “No Collusion”, “No Collusion”, “No Collusion” for over a year now. That time is frankly over, because all people have to say is “Manafort was indicted for Colluding with a Russian Spy” and it’s simply game over. “Collusion” is now a given, not a theory. We now know what they are, it’s just a matter of how much more of it there is to discover and display.





You shake a tree near the Trump campaign and you better duck because yet another RUSSIAN is going to come falling out of it.
Now, I’m sure the Trumpsters will argue that this new indictment doesn’t include charges that directly link Manafort to Russia’s hacking and election tampering or the effort by the Russian Troll farm to manipulate and suppress voters and that would be technically true, but they would be ignoring that emails obtained by the Atlantic and Washington Post already show that Manafort was also aware of and involved with collusion efforts made by George Papadopoulos and Carter Page who were both told through Russian sources about the hacking and “dirt” that they had gathered on Hillary Clinton which rather than report that information to the FBI they instead joined the Russian conspiracy to keep it a secret.

That’s a crime.
Manafort was also in the room when Don Jr. tried to collude with Russian Lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya and yet another Russian GRU Intel asset Rinat Ahkmetshin in an attempt to get more “dirt” on Hillary and the DNC in exchange for easing sanctions under the Magnitsky act. Meanwhile Don Jr. secretly met with Russian gangster Alexander Torshin who was also offering a personal meeting between Putin and Trump, as was Rob Goldstone who was trying to setup the meeting through Trump’s assistant Rhona Ghraff through Emin Agalarov and lastly Ivanka Trump who hooked up Michael Cohen with Russian Olympic Weight-lifter Dmitry Kolkov who yet again was offering to have Trump meet Putin to negotiate the Trump Tower Moscow project financed by a sanctioned Russian bank that was ongoing during the election for which Trump personally signed a letter of intent for in December of 2015.
That — all of that — was also a crime, even if full agreements weren’t reached. Attempted robbery and attempted murder are still crimes even if you don’t succeed. So is attempted criminal collusion [ie attempts to violate of FEC rules, Sanctions and the Logan Act] even if you don’t succeed, as is conspiracy if you then proceed to lie repeatedly — “There were no Russians in our campaign” — to cover up your attempts at criminal collusion as Flynn, Papdopoulos, Gates and Van der Zwaan have all admitted to by pleading guilty.
The Russians were attacking our election on their own, Trump didn’t put them up to any of that — but when his people found out about it, specifically after Papadopoulos was told by Prof. Mifsud that the Russians had “thousand of Hillary’s emails” their actions weren’t to help stop the Russians, they were to do what they could to take advantage of what the Russians did as George has explained he was instructed to do by Jeff Sessions and “find out all he could” about the stolen emails.Papadopoulos had been personally authorized by Trump himself to illegally reach out to the Russians — in violation of international sanctions and/or the Logan Act — and Manafort was well aware of this because Papadopoulos specifically told him.Jeff Sessions had also shut down the idea of a face-to-face meeting with Putin, but then Manafort plotted to send someone else in Trump’s place.So they know what they’re doing is wrong, they don’t want to “send a signal” — to who, the FBI? — but they don’t stop, they keep going and simply decided to send someone else who wouldn’t be so highly visible.
Not much later Corey Lewandowski — who had also been included in the Papdopoulos email chain — authorized Carter Page, who was “someone low level”, to take a trip to Moscow during the middle of the campaign where he too was informed by Kremlin Official Igor Divyekin that “Russia had compromising materials on Hillary Clinton” — just as Rob Goldstone told Don Jr that Russia had “dirt on Hillary” — all of which they tried get their hands on rather than report to the FBI which is still a crime.
ALL. OF. THAT. IS. COLLUSION.
Manafort may not have, yet, been charged for this but he was neck deep in the middle of all this during the campaign. All of his indictments, including the latest are part of Mueller’s effort to get him to comply and cooperate with THIS part of the investigation in the way that UAE Rep George Nader, Michael Flynn, Papadopoulos, Rick Gates and Van Der Zwaan have already done.
That’s the end-game.
When we get to that point Trump’s extended White House guest visit will be absolutely “in it’s last throes.”
But even without having this yet included in a court document, the published emails from Papadopoulos to Lewandowski ,Manafort, Gates and Page already tell us what happened. The Trump campaign engaged in an illegal effort to reach out to the Russian government— with Trump’s personal knowledge and blessing — then by keeping what multiple Russian sources had told them a secret implemented a conspiracy to collude with and protect Russia as they attacked the U.S. election simply because they knew their target was Hillary Clinton.
They knew they were getting help from Russia, they wanted that help from Russia and they facilitated that help by remaining silent. Manafort’s ongoing relationship with a Russian intelligence asset [who also took personal credit for blocking the Pro-Ukraine plank during the RNC]— all the while ignoring Rear Adm Kubic’s concerns — was no small part of these efforts.

This is one of those articles where, a lot of interesting stuff-like tweeted comments-won't copy, but suffice it say, Paulie Numbuts is FCUKED-even Witless Willie knows it, as evidenced by him going into complete, surly silence on the subject, lol...

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...-it-are-now-more-interesting?detail=emaildkre

Manafort violates bail but the reasons he did it are now more interesting




annieli
Community

Monday June 04, 2018 · 9:49 PM PDT

Robert Mueller accuses Paul Manafort of attempting to shape potential witnesses' testimony and asks to send him to jail as he awaits his trial
More interesting is Trump bleating about Manafort coincident to his getting caught attempting some witness tampering.
The below thread indicates the depth of Manafort’s involvement in the Ukraine incursion by Russia and the range of influence including illegal lobbying. It demonstrates how much Mueller already has in evidence.
It’s important to remember that a Trump pardon for Manafort isn’t going to cover some state-level activities that will be prosecuted where the money was transferred.
Manafort could flip and give Trump up because of Manafort being implicated with a bunch of current and former European politicians during the Russian ‘invasion’ of Ukraine/Crimea.
And then there’s the role of among other US Congress members, Dana Rohrabacher and possibly Chuck Grassley in this...The short version of this set of threads is that we can see in the Mueller request to void Manafort’s bail, that there’s some compelling evidence of Manafort activities that is so incriminating, that Manafort was willing to risk pre-trial imprisonment. It’s also important enough to get Trump to signal however obliquely that he might pardon some #TrumpRussia criminals, including himself. If you’re already familiar with the outline of the Manafort indictment, this shows the breadth and depth Mueller is covering as he asks to put Manafort in custody until his trial. Monday, Jun 4, 2018 · 11:03:03 PM PDT · annieli this could wind up in a divorce preceedings