Federal prosecutors accused former Trump presidential campaign chairman Paul Manafort of witness tampering late Monday in his tax and lobbying case and asked a federal judge to consider revoking or revising his release pending trial.
In a late Monday filing in Washington, prosecutors accused Manafort and a longtime associate they previously linked to Russian intelligence of repeatedly contacting two members of a public-relations firm since February to secure false testimony about their collective work involving a group of former senior European politicians.
The group, informally called the “Hapsburg group,” was secretly retained in 2012 by Manafort to take positions favorable to Ukraine, for whom Manafort was working, prosecutors charged.
In court documents, including an affidavit by FBI agent Brock W. Domin, prosecutors with Special Counsel Robery S. Mueller III allege Manafort and his associate-- referred to only as Person A - tried to contact the two witnesses by phone and through an encrypted messaging program.
Manafort, 69, has been on home confinement pending trial.
Domin said that one of the public relations firm executives, identified as Person D1, told the government he “understood Manafort’s outreach to be an effort to ‘suborn perjury,’” and cause someone knowingly to tell a falsehood in the case by saying the group worked mainly in Europe and to minimize its U.S. work.
Manafort has pleaded not guilty to charges including conspiracy, money laundering and bank and tax fraud charges in connection with his work for a pro-Russian Ukrainian politician and political party. In a superseding indictment
In 2012 and 2013, according to the indictment, Manafort used offshore accounts to wire more than 2 million euros to pay the former politicians, who were described as independent actors instead of paid lobbyists.
Prosecutors also filed notice of the allegation in Manafort’s pending tax and bank fraud case in federal court in Alexandria, where Manafort is under under similar conditions of conditional home cinfinement.
Poster Comment:
Not good for team DS45
Over / Under on days until PM cuts a deal and rolls over on the Degerante-IN- Chief....12
#1: buckeroo To: Jameson (#0)
Mueller is going after weeds and nothing related to the mandate of his special prosecutor powers.
buckeroo posted on 2018-06-04 22:25:01 Reply Private Reply
#2: Hank Rearden To: Jameson (#0)
He's got nothing and $17 million to account for, so far.
Now, let's look into his anthrax-case botch, the lies and coverup in the Whitey Bolger false-imprisonment and a few of his other scandals.
Or will Gowdy let the clock run out on those as well?
Hank Rearden posted on 2018-06-04 22:26:59 Reply Private Reply
#3: tpaine To: Jameson (#0)
Bad bet.
I'd say this is Mueller's last ploy before the IG Report comes out, and destroys his investigation..
tpaine posted on 2018-06-04 23:25:17 Reply Private Reply
#4: A K A Stone To: Jameson (#0)
A K A Stone posted on 2018-06-05 06:16:13 Reply Private Reply
#5: Jameson To: Hank Rearden (#2)
Papadopoulos, Flynn, Pinedo, van der Zwaan, Gates – all guilty
next up – Manafort….
Mr. Mueller also will be credited with bringing in Cohen….
More to come!!!
Jameson posted on 2018-06-05 07:27:38 Reply Private Reply
#6: A K A Stone To: Jameson (#5)
Why are you always so stupid? Oh that's right you are a faggot.
A K A Stone posted on 2018-06-05 07:46:29 Reply Private Reply
#7: Jameson To: tpaine (#3)
Right!
So, exactly what facts will "destroys his investigation"?
Jameson posted on 2018-06-05 07:56:07 Reply Private Reply
#8: Liberator To: Jameson (#0)
LMAO
Liberator posted on 2018-06-05 09:02:59 Reply Private Reply
#9: Liberator To: Jameson (#5)
Yes. The nice men in white suits will see to it...
Ode to Jameson:
Liberator posted on 2018-06-05 09:05:43 Reply Private Reply
#10: Jameson To: Liberator (#8)
Also being reported by: CNN, NYT, CBS, The Hill, Bloomburg, National Review, BBC.....
What is your point?
Jameson posted on 2018-06-05 09:26:10 Reply Private Reply
#11: A K A Stone To: Jameson (#10)
What is your point? This has nothing to do with Trump or Russia.
You neo liberals are such clown fools.
A K A Stone posted on 2018-06-05 09:29:33 Reply Private Reply
#12: Liberator To: Jameson (#10)
IOW, the usual "resistance" Fake News outlets?
*yawn*
What is your point?
THE point(s)? You, like they, are still comically grasping at thin straws and imploding.
Y'all can keep on feeding your insanity and paranoia while holding your collective breath and stomping your feetsies till 2020 -- President Trump is going NO WHERE. (While YOUR severely mentally challenged Dem Party, P*ssy Hat lunatics, conspirators and collaborators are in deep doo-doo.)
Liberator posted on 2018-06-05 09:53:58 Reply Private Reply
#13: Liberator To: A K A Stone, Jameson (#11)
Yup, that is the overiding constant.
But in the alleged minds of Stockholm Syndromed "Resistance" like Jameson, the Delusion is all that matters.
The consensus of WaPo, CNN, NYT, CBS, The Hill, Bloomburg, National Review, BBC only means the insanity is viral and fatal.
Liberator posted on 2018-06-05 09:58:21 Reply Private Reply
#14: Jameson To: Liberator (#12)
Sure...fake news....
Precisely what is fake about this news?
Jameson posted on 2018-06-05 10:39:31 Reply Private Reply
#15: Jameson To: A K A Stone (#11)
try to keep up....Manafort's prosecution has everything to do with russia and GS-Boy
Manafort was dip-shit donnie's campaign chairman, as you know.
Manafort also did a lot of "business" with the Russians and Ukrainians. AND he was sitting at the head of the table during the famous SH Tower meeting with the russians.....
Some of that business was really greasy, and PM didn't pay taxes on the profits
So...Manafort is directly connected to DSD45, Russia, and a bunch of greasy deals.
The only way Manafort avoids spending a lot of years in prison is to plead guilty and cooperate.
The under / over on his flip is now 12 days...
Jameson posted on 2018-06-05 12:00:59 Reply Private Reply
#16: A K A Stone To: Jameson (#15)
Try not to swallow your Obama aids infested semen. Or on second thought do swallow you useless eater.
Your mom should have aborted.
A K A Stone posted on 2018-06-05 23:27:49 Reply Private Reply
#17: CZ82 To: Liberator (#12)
You forgot to add trolling in there cause I can't believe they're stupid enough to believe what they're posting, I might be wrong which would mean a bag of used pucks has an IQ advantage over them.
CZ82 posted on 2018-06-06 07:37:08 Reply Private Reply
#18: CZ82 To: A K A Stone (#11)
That has got to be the #1 reason he's still allowed to post here, the amusement factor.
CZ82 posted on 2018-06-06 07:59:35 Reply Private Reply
#19: Liberator To: CZ82, Jameson (#17)
Heh-heh...
Sure, to the sane (aka *us*), Jameson's post appear to be "trolling" because, who could be THAT dopey and alienated from truth and reality? And then we remind ourselves that Progs-Libs voted for Hitlery while millions believed that 0bama *wuz* a "messiah". Their "Reality-IQ" is absolutely below room-temp.
Here's the weird thing from OUR perspective: The left-Lib mind-set really *does* believe in their insanity and delusion. So yes, someone like Jameson may be relatively "normal" in routine matters of life, but ideologically their political reality is totally warped. UP = DOWN to these people. HATE dominates their emotions.
IS it a mental illness? Sure looks that way.
Liberator posted on 2018-06-06 11:23:16 Reply Private Reply
#20: Liberator To: CZ82, A K A Stone (#18)
What you said, bro.
Liberator posted on 2018-06-06 11:24:18 Reply Private Reply
#21: CZ82 To: Liberator (#19)
CZ82 posted on 2018-06-07 07:20:46 Reply Private Reply
#22: Liberator To: CZ82, redleghunter (#21)
These people seem to lie as a matter of habit, out of "rebellion", yeah, then out of covering up their original lies. Their "ideology" IS one Big Lie. With ZERO sense of morality and ethics, lying is like breathing to them. It appears the hubris and delusion of these people has embedded itself into their very bones.
Today's insane Liberal-Prog-Athiests to God at his Throne on Judgment Day:
"YOU STILL DON'T EXIST. But IF you do, are you still beating your wife?"
;-)
Liberator posted on 2018-06-07 14:36:06 Reply Private Reply