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Showing Original Post only (View all)BREAKING***Manafort bail deal cancelled.... [View all]
Manafort worked on op-ed with Russian while out on bail, prosecutors say
Washington (CNN)Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was ghostwriting an op-ed while out on bail last month with a Russian who has ties to the Russian intelligence service, Justice Department Special Counsel Robert Muller's team said Monday.
In a new filing Monday afternoon, Mueller's investigators said Manafort was working on an editorial in English as late as last Thursday and that it related to his political work for Ukraine, which factored into his money-laundering and foreign lobbying criminal charges.
The filing asks for the court to revisit a bail agreement Mueller's office and Manafort's lawyers made jointly last week. The court had not yet approved a change to his $10 million unsecured bail and house arrest.
"Even if the ghostwritten op-ed were entirely accurate, fair, and balanced, it would be a violation of this Court's November 8 Order if it had been published," prosecutors wrote. "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)."
In a new filing Monday afternoon, Mueller's investigators said Manafort was working on an editorial in English as late as last Thursday and that it related to his political work for Ukraine, which factored into his money-laundering and foreign lobbying criminal charges.
The filing asks for the court to revisit a bail agreement Mueller's office and Manafort's lawyers made jointly last week. The court had not yet approved a change to his $10 million unsecured bail and house arrest.
"Even if the ghostwritten op-ed were entirely accurate, fair, and balanced, it would be a violation of this Court's November 8 Order if it had been published," prosecutors wrote. "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)."
http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/04/politics/manafort-bail-russian-intelligence/index.html
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no, don't insult barney. he may have been inept, but he was a decent human being.
niyad
Dec 2017
#66
They are all going to do a massive PR campaign. That is all they have at this point. nt
Irish_Dem
Dec 2017
#6
The hubris is bloody astounding. And him getting bail revoked is really satisfying.
nolabear
Dec 2017
#9
Maybe they are playing for more than 50% of the oil in the world. The biggest reason
NCjack
Dec 2017
#65
He's bankrolled by Russians. He can't stay away. LOCK HIS COIFED JUST FOR MEN ASS UP.
Kirk Lover
Dec 2017
#28
These fuckers think they are a TV show like Blacklist. Do whatever and go wherever without
madinmaryland
Dec 2017
#34
Wish it were true, and it will be true, but the bail deal is technically still in effect....
George II
Dec 2017
#37
Manafort drives to the editorial office in his Ford Bronco to submit the Op/Ed piece...
TrollBuster9090
Dec 2017
#56
Did someone pay Manafort to be the fall guy? no one can be that stupid, right?
IronLionZion
Dec 2017
#60