Mueller backs out of bail deal with Manafort, saying he tried to hide a public relations effort
11 replies, posted
[IMG]http://www.trbimg.com/img-57b71e1a/turbine/la-1471618656-snap-photo/750[/IMG]
[quote]Paul Manafort ghost-wrote an editorial about his political work in Ukraine, violating a court order, according to a new court filing from the special counsel’s office.
The allegation was disclosed Monday as the reason the special counsel was backing out of a deal on bail with Manafort’s lawyers. The deal would have loosened the terms of house arrest for President Trump’s former campaign manager.
Manafort wanted to be allowed to travel among a few states in return for agreeing to forfeit $11.6 million in property if he missed a court appearance.
The special counsel’s office, which is investigating whether anyone in Trump’s orbit helped Russia interfere in last year’s presidential campaign, said Manafort helped draft the editorial in recent days, working with a Russian who has ties to that country’s intelligence services.
That writing violated a Nov. 8 court order "prohibiting such out-of-court statements in order to protect the fairness of the upcoming trial,” the court filing said.
“The editorial clearly was undertaken to influence the public’s opinion of defendant Manafort, or else there would be no reason to seek its publication (much less for Manafort and his long-time associate to ghostwrite it in another’s name),” the court filing said. “It compounds the problem that the proposed piece is not a dispassionate recitation of the facts.”[/quote]
[url=http://www.latimes.com/politics/washington/la-na-pol-essential-washington-updates-paul-manafort-secretly-worked-on-1512425542-htmlstory.html]The LA Times[/url]
[url=http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/04/politics/manafort-bail-russian-intelligence/index.html]CNN[/url]
The man just can't help himself but feel entitled to do whatever the hell he feels like because he expects that nobody will find out and/or that nobody cares.
I bet his lawyer is fuming about this.
Rot in prison you corrupt criminal fuckhead
How rich do you have to be that pissing 11.6 M away is nothing
Slap him with contempt of court
[QUOTE=Sableye;52947215]How rich do you have to be that pissing 11.6 M away is nothing[/QUOTE]
He only loses that if he fails to appear in court.
See you in ADX.
[QUOTE=Sableye;52947215]How rich do you have to be that pissing 11.6 M away is nothing[/QUOTE]
rich enough to be part of the 1% who supports the tax bill
[QUOTE=geel9;52947242]He only loses that if he fails to appear in court.[/QUOTE]
I thought you lost your bail if you broke the terms of your bail
The OP kind of misses the most important part. This is the first time the special counsel has formally accused a Trump official of having contacts with Russian intelligence
[url]https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/prosecutors-say-longtime-manafort-colleague-has-ties-to-russian-intelligence/2017/12/04/201ae098-d93e-11e7-b1a8-62589434a581_story.html[/url]
[quote]Federal prosecutors asserted Monday that a longtime associate of Paul Manafort, the former chairman of President Trump’s campaign, has been “assessed to have ties” to Russian intelligence — the first time the special counsel has alleged a Trump official had such contacts.[/quote]
I was watching CNN live when the news broke, the person they were talking to was trying super hard not to laugh,
Sorry, you need to Log In to post a reply to this thread.