Posted on 06/22/2018 9:20:20 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
A federal judge rejected a motion by former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort to dismiss a money laundering charge against him.
U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson denied the motion in a court filing Friday.
Manafort, who is facing numerous charges related to financial crimes, was sent to jail earlier this month after Special Counsel Robert Mueller accused him of witness tampering.
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What ever happened to the other judge? I think his name was Ellis.
“U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson”
Let me guess, Clinton appointee?
What about the ABC News report of manslaughter offenses?
Obama, a leftist of the highest order.
Paul shouldn’t have stolen from Trump. He’d be looking at a pardon and free to go if not for the Iowa mail-scam. (according to Let Trump Be Trump)
The Constitution guarantees a right to a speedy trial. If Manafort is truly innocent of the charges against him, he and his attorneys should demand the judge set a quick trial date thereby forcing Mueller to go to trial. If Mueller claims he isn’t ready, Manfort should demand to be released from prison and all charges dropped. If the judge sides with Mueller, Manafort should appeal to a higher court.
For those who missed it, the real source of Manafort’s trouble: You don’t steal from Mr. Trump!
Just as Steve had thought, the story ran the next day, August 15, page one, above the fold.
“I’ve got a crook running my campaign,” Trump said when he read it.
Paul’s propensity to operate in dark corners had perhaps showed itself early in his tenure on the campaign. On the day Corey was fired, amid the craziness, Paul went to Jeff DeWit, the campaign’s chief operating officer, and asked for a $5 million check to be cut for a media buy that sounded vague at best. DeWit said he would issue the check only after he received a memo from Allen Weisselberg with Donald Trump’s “D” signed on it. That was the last DeWit heard about the check or the buy.
Then there was the strange and murky case of Left Hand Enterprises LLC. In May 2016, after Manafort joined the campaign, and before they fired Corey, the campaign operated on two separate budgets. Corey oversaw the funds in one, and Manafort managed the other. Soon after the campaign hired Manafort, his budget quickly cut successive checks totaling over $700,000 to a newly formed Delaware company that was supposed to provide direct mail to Nebraska and Indiana. Whether or not the mailing found its way to those states, or to any other location, is still up for debate. What is known is that Left Hand LLC had a mailing address at a farm in Virginia that just happened to be the voting residence of Manafort’s former business partner.
The complete story of the Left Hand incident has never been fully resolved. But the amount of $700,000 for a mailing that no one knows for sure ever happened is something that a guy with the initials DJT will not soon forget.
Trump told Bannon to fire Manafort right away. Steve argued that firing his campaign chairman would cause a shit storm of bad press. Instead he argued that Trump should take away his authority and give him a new title, which is what happened. When the campaign announced the new team, Bannon had the title of campaign CEO, Kellyanne Conway was the campaign manager, and Manafort remained the campaign chairman.
The kill shot for Paul came on Thursday the eighteenth, when Trump was about to go onstage at a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina. A friend showed him a printout of an AP story written by Jeff Horwitz and Chad Day. Based on emails that the AP had obtained, the story described Manafort running “a covert Washington lobbying operation on behalf of Ukraine’s ruling political party, attempting to sway American public opinion in favor of the country’s pro-Russian government.” It also said that Manafort and his deputy, Rick Gates, had “never disclosed their work as foreign agents as required under federal law.”
“Tell Jared to fire him,” Trump said.
Lewandowski, Corey R.. Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency (pp. 145-147). Center Street. Kindle Edition.
Paul Manafort, the only “Illegal Human Being” on the planet.
I wonder if Rachael Madcow will cry with dry eyes for him.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/03/paul-manafort-american-hustler/550925/
In trying to find the Iowa mail story I found this.
I immediately knew this guy was going to be trouble for Trump.
I argued with people on line. They insisted Trump had to use Manafort and get rid of Lewendowski because Manafort would win Trump the nomination.
It was a bargain with the devil.
Obviously, he has issues, but at the time he was hired, there WAS an organizational problem in the Trump campaign, and he saw things through the convention without issue.
Q anon has stated pretty clearly that Paul Manafort was a plant in the campaign. We’ll see.
From Amy’s son Matt on Jeopardy!
“My mother is white, liberal and Jewish, and my dad is black, Christian and conservative,” Judge Amy Berman Jackson (judge assigned Manafort Indictment)’s Son on Jeopardy”
Now what could possibly go wrong here?
“Obviously, he has issues, but at the time he was hired, there WAS an organizational problem in the Trump campaign, and he saw things through the convention without issue.”
I would completely agree with that. I think Manafort is and was an extremely skilled if not diabolical operator, and that functionality, almost what you’d call a vicious bastard, was badly needed by Trump at the time.
Now the question should be asked, “is such a person to be trusted with the checkbook”?
Ehhh, probably not. OK, he did not have authority over the checkbook directly, but his proven ability to extract money via redirection of remittances is or probably should have been known, or suspected.
I certainly take your point about his military-grade organizational skill. At the time, Trump needed the vicious bastard and maybe was not able to conduct the background check that was probably called for. They were in full on chaos at the beginning there.
And in related news, Tony Podesta has yet to be charged with anything.
Barack Obama
2013:In December 2013, Jackson ruled that the Roman Catholic Diocese of Washington, D.C. must cover birth control and abortifacients for its employees under the Affordable Care Act despite a ban on abortion or contraception in Roman Catholic doctrine.
Would Manafort be under investigation if Trump had lost?
Mueller took over an investigation that the FBI had abandoned for the sole purpose of blackmailing someone into telling lies about Trump.
Two different court cases.
“Manafort’s cases are being heard in both the U.S. District Court in D.C., and the Eastern District of Virginia, by Judge T.S. Ellis III, who has proven to be more sympathetic to Manafort than Jackson.”
Isn’t he charged due to, “fruit of the poison tree”?
Once the basis for subpoenas is addressed, his case should be dismisssd.
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