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Paul Manafort will enter a guilty plea in second trial

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Paul Manafort will enter a guilty plea in second trial

Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort will plead guilty to two charges Friday morning, special counsel Robert Mueller's office said.

Manafort will plead guilty to one count of conspiracy against the US and one count of conspiracy to obstruct justice due to attempts to tamper with witnesses, according to a court filing Friday.

It is not yet known if Manafort will cooperate with the special counsel's office in the investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

President Donald Trump is not mentioned in Friday's filing, nor is Manafort's role in his campaign.

Prosecutors will drop the five remaining charges against Manafort, including money laundering, tax fraud, failing to disclose foreign bank accounts, violating federal foreign lobbying law and lying to the Department of Justice. But the court filing suggests Manafort admits to the actions.

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He still has to worry about possible retrial for the 10 charges where the last jury was hung up by one vote.
 
Reports state that Manafort forfeits 40+ million dollars in assets. Seems Robert Mueller turned a profit on the “witch hunt!”

:thanks:
 
Interesting development.

So pleads guilty to 2 counts, but admits he committed the others.
Unknown on cooperation and may remain that way indefinitely I suppose, or possibly when the next shoes drop.
Possible reduction of sentence he already got form the first trial? I don't know/unknown?

I was hoping to hear about all the intrigue in trial, I guess that's not gonna happen now.
 
Mach said:
Interesting development.

So pleads guilty to 2 counts, but admits he committed the others.
Unknown on cooperation and may remain that way indefinitely I suppose, or possibly when the next shoes drop.
I was hoping to hear about all the intrigue in trial, I guess that's not gonna happen now.
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Just released, it IS a cooperation agreement.
 
The dramatic reduction in charges, coupled with the fact that I thought half the point of the Manafort hammer was to get him to cooperate, does make on think he's cooperating even if it's not been disclosed.
But I haven't seen yet any sourcing to back that.
 
Anagram said:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-14/ap-newsalert-ex-trump-campaign-chair-paul-manafort-cuts-cooperation-agreement-ahead-of-2nd-trial-prosecutor-says
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Oh, well that changes quite a bit of the equation then. Manafort apparently had reason to doubt the possibility of a pardon. Combined with the mutual defense agreement, this really means that his and Trump's activities were mixed up in each other.

Of course this could just mean that he would have material on other parties, but that mutual defense thing suggests that trump is a part of it.
 
Cardinal said:
Oh, well that changes quite a bit of the equation then. Manafort apparently had reason to doubt the possibility of a pardon. Combined with the mutual defense agreement, this really means that his and Trump's activities were mixed up in each other.
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Yep, I am just reading this is a cooperation deal as well...how much cooperation? They must have had a true smoking gun to get him to forfeit 40 million bucks.
 
Cardinal said:
Oh, well that changes quite a bit of the equation then. Manafort apparently had reason to doubt the possibility of a pardon. Combined with the mutual defense agreement, this really means that his and Trump's activities were mixed up in each other.

Of course this could just mean that he would have material on other parties, but that mutual defense thing suggests that trump is a part of it.
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At age 69y facing around 10 years in prison the option of cooperating to reduce time in prison is alluring.

Somewhere in the White House is an obese older male shouting at the tv.
 
ClaraD said:
Yep, I am just reading this is a cooperation deal as well...how much cooperation? They must have had a true smoking gun to get him to forfeit 40 million bucks.
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His lawyer would have secured the deal prior to him giving prosecutors any additional information. I think the plea is more around not dying in prison(10 year max sentence) vs the money. All of the charges for him are pre-Trump, and Mueller was working on the Ukrainian angle back when he was still in the FBI, so Manafort likely will give up all the additional players in that scheme.
 
ClaraD said:
:shock:

I can't wait for the twitter tantrum at 2 am.
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Well, if he actually cared about this country, he would take his twitter box and throw it away.
 
As to whether Manafort has anything on Trump, watch this video in which he responds to the question, "So to be clear, Mr. Trump has no financial relationships with Russian oligarchs?"

I call it, "How to show every sign of lying in four seconds, in A minor."

https://twitter.com/yashar/status/844526539962302464
 
Lock him up.
Lock him up.
Lock him up.



Sent from Trump Plaza's basement using Putin's MacBook.
 
https://www.npr.org/2018/09/14/6430...-in-agreement-to-avert-a-second-federal-trial

On Friday, prosecutors said the plea deal in Manafort's DC case includes an agreement to cooperate with investigators — a potentially ominous development for the president, who has repeatedly called Mueller's probe a "whitch hunt."

At the same time, Manafort's cooperation agreement does not include matters involving the Trump campaign, according to one person familiar with the case. The person asked not to be identified.
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Cardinal said:
To be clear, a plea deal of this nature would require that he talk about everything he knows about other people he acted criminally with. That would include Trump if applicable.
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From the linked article:
As part of his guilty plea, Manafort agreed to brief prosecutors, produce documents and testify if warranted. Asked by the judge whether he understood that his deal with the government required him to cooperate “fully and truthfully,” Manafort replied, “I do.”

WOW!
 
JustHanging said:
From the linked article:
As part of his guilty plea, Manafort agreed to brief prosecutors, produce documents and testify if warranted. Asked by the judge whether he understood that his deal with the government required him to cooperate “fully and truthfully,” Manafort replied, “I do.”

WOW!
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Yeah...and Im betting the smug attitude went away when threatened with state charges...this is getting really interesting
 
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