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In reply to the discussion: BREAKING: Manafort jury reaches verdict on some counts, but not all [View all]BumRushDaShow
(129,053 posts)12. NYT convicted 8 counts fraud, 10 up in the air
Paul Manafort Convicted in Fraud Trial
ALEXANDRIA, Va. Paul Manafort, President Trumps former campaign chairman, was convicted on Tuesday in his financial fraud trial, bringing a dramatic end to a politically charged case that riveted the capital.
The verdict was a victory for the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, whose prosecutors built a case that Mr. Manafort hid millions of dollars in foreign accounts to evade taxes and lied to banks repeatedly to obtain $20 million in loans.
Mr. Manafort was convicted on five counts of tax fraud, two counts of bank fraud and one count of failure to disclose a foreign bank account. The jury was unable to reach a verdict on 10 of the 18 counts and the judge declared a mistrial on those charges.
The trial did not touch directly on Mr. Muellers inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 election or on whether Mr. Trump has sought to obstruct the investigation. But it was the first test of the special counsels ability to prosecute a case in a federal courtroom amid intense criticism from the president and his allies that the inquiry is a biased and unjustified witch hunt.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/us/politics/paul-manafort-trial-verdict.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes
ALEXANDRIA, Va. Paul Manafort, President Trumps former campaign chairman, was convicted on Tuesday in his financial fraud trial, bringing a dramatic end to a politically charged case that riveted the capital.
The verdict was a victory for the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, whose prosecutors built a case that Mr. Manafort hid millions of dollars in foreign accounts to evade taxes and lied to banks repeatedly to obtain $20 million in loans.
Mr. Manafort was convicted on five counts of tax fraud, two counts of bank fraud and one count of failure to disclose a foreign bank account. The jury was unable to reach a verdict on 10 of the 18 counts and the judge declared a mistrial on those charges.
The trial did not touch directly on Mr. Muellers inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 election or on whether Mr. Trump has sought to obstruct the investigation. But it was the first test of the special counsels ability to prosecute a case in a federal courtroom amid intense criticism from the president and his allies that the inquiry is a biased and unjustified witch hunt.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/us/politics/paul-manafort-trial-verdict.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes
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BREAKING: Manafort jury reaches verdict on some counts, but not all [View all]
NRaleighLiberal
Aug 2018
OP
It is shocking that they have no verdict in 10. That doesn't feel like good news.
Squinch
Aug 2018
#2
For the one convicted of even one murder and acquitted of 17 it is no loaf at all.
Fred Sanders
Aug 2018
#25
The threat, just before the 2nd trial, still hangs out there with the hope he'll do a plea deal. nt
BumRushDaShow
Aug 2018
#40
Exactly how I see it. And convicted of direct bank fraud re: Citizens Bank (his buddies) but
Fred Sanders
Aug 2018
#26
Make Manofort squeal....keep the pressure on...but aside from that probably no legal reason
Fred Sanders
Aug 2018
#28
The jury couldn't reach agreement on those counts means mistrial for those counts. n/t
PoliticAverse
Aug 2018
#30
On the conspiracy to commit fraud versus the actual commit fraud on Citizen's bank the
Fred Sanders
Aug 2018
#46
$3.1 million fraud on just the one count regarding the bank is many years in the clink alone.
Fred Sanders
Aug 2018
#49
A guess: Trump will pardon or commute the sentence after Nov 2020 election.
JustABozoOnThisBus
Aug 2018
#62
80 years? Has the sentencing been done? Are the terms to be "consecutive"?
JustABozoOnThisBus
Aug 2018
#64