Exclusive: Manafort's former son-in-law cuts plea deal, to cooperate with government: sources

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  1. The Mello Guy

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    The former son-in-law of Paul Manafort, the one-time chairman of President Donald Trump's campaign, has cut a plea deal with the Justice Department that requires him to cooperate with other criminal probes, two people with knowledge of the matter said.

    The guilty plea agreement, which is under seal and has not been previously reported, could add to the legal pressure on Manafort, who is facing two indictments brought by Special Counsel Robert Mueller in his probe of alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKCN1II2YM

    Ouch! Manaforts in trouble. Paulie Walnuts is either going to die in prison or have to give mueller a bigger goose to cook. I wonder who.....
     
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    Is anyone or anything off limits except Democrats in this investigation?
     
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    The Mello Guy Well-Known Member

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    Yes, innocent people.
     
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    1 year no collusion evidence whatsoever. Manafort can't give up anything or anyone that doesnt exist. Yawns
     
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    You left out the most important snip from the article

    Jeffrey Yohai, a former business partner of Manafort, was divorced from Manafort’s daughter last August.

    "former son-in-law" doesn't do anything for me, but "former business partner" rings with many more possibilities...
     
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    That sure isn't Democrats. I heard Mueller has Trump's youngest son Barron in custody . The dems are waterboarding him . You know it's ok to torture a Trump but never a terrorist .
     
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    How do you know what evidence they have
     
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    Sucks for him then lol
     
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    Nah you guys said it’s not torture. Even saw some idiot on twitter letting his friends do it, so it must be ok!
     
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    Did you read the article? He wasn't even told he would be required to cooperate. So valuable he is that he is basically not needed, they have him just in case... Jeez

    Mueller was embarrassed to prosecute the poor schmuck (he is using a public defender according to the article) on ridiculous (bank account overdraft) charges so he let him go with a slap on the wrist and a deal that in the event Mueller ever needs him, he'd be required to cooperate. Duh

    LOL, another fail, still no there, there :D
     
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    It's only torture when done to an enemy of America. That's when lefty has a bird ... if Pelosi was waterboarding Trump you " American Lefty" would be thrilled . True that .
     
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    Nancy is too old, she could dump 4-5 ounces at time.
     
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    The only collusion going on is between the leftist media and the FBI to subvert our political process. Click around in here and make sure to read the book of an article by the NYT. FBI is having them softbreak the fact they spied on Trumps campaign. And all kinds of other crap. No collusion with Russia but a whole lot of constitutional abuse by the FBI, Obama, Hillary..

    The proverbial crap is about to hit the fan when that IG report comes out. Hold on to your safe spaces leftists your gonna needem

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/blog...-the-lead-in-pre-election-russia-trump-story/
     
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    "but the two people familiar with the matter say they consider it a possibility that he will be asked to assist with Mueller’s prosecution of Manafort."

    Which of course, is the logical presumption. I mean, unless Manafort is so stupid as to give his son-in-law incriminating information pertaining to his activities as part of the Trump Campaign.

    But let's step back and think about this for a moment: Why would Manafort keep quiet about information that could lessen his own sentence? Fear of the Russians isn't exactly stipulating enough. Manafort would likely want a smaller deal that lets him enjoy at least senior age outside of the federal pen house.

    Indeed, I'm betting Mueller expected Manafort 'cooperation' by now. The announcement of this through leaks, is intended to 'pressure' Manafort, but Manafort already knows everything the son-in-law knows(and doesn't know). It's not pressuring in the least from a criminal perspective.

    Mueller's going to have to try a lot harder than this.
     
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    So this is how Mueller is going to attempt to save what's remaining of his reputations, squeeze person C so he can squeeze person B so he can build a case against person A who can't be indicted. Take Mueller's practice far enough and one of us might be called in for an interrogation one day.

    And that website, if you keep scrolling down it keeps loading new stories with all of them negative towards Trump. Nah, media isn't biased.
     
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    You cut us out of the action entirely. Our hands are clean. And you KNOW Obama was a choirboy.
     
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    Will you stand by the IG report no matter what it says?
     
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    I knew you guys would use cant be indicted to call it all a waste of time.
     
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    That’s how he took down Gotti
     
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    Sure we already know quite alot and it's just the tip of the iceberg... Why do you suppose the FBI leaked info to their puppet the NYT and they wrote a novel about it? Damage control
     
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    But you wouldn't deny the claim.
     
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    Gotti was a known criminal, a convicted murderer if I recall, and no one would question that he was a mob boss. Are you saying that without a known crime our government should go after a sitting president as if he was a mob boss and squeeze everyone and anyone in order to get something on him? And that's what they seem to be doing, they don't know what they're looking for so they're going to bust everyone's balls hoping someone along the line with give them something to run on.

    Mello, what is the crime Mueller is trying to prove Trump is involved with. Surely, after a year there has to be some sort of crime you can say Mueller is looking at.
     
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    Obama may be locked up yet . He spied on the Trump team for sure , for political reasons. That's Watergate ×39
     
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    We have several known crimes.
    Dnc hacking as well as the many crimes the Russians were already indicted for.
    If trumps innocent it won’t matter which they squeeze, nothing will come out.
     
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    Mueller follows the trail where ever it Leads. President Clinton investigation started over Real estate and ended on a different note.

    Mafia Don has Lots of skeletons in his closet.

    ZTE looks like yet another possibility. Pay Trump to play ..................

    Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen faces scrutiny about the big sums his shell company, Essential Consultants, received from blue-chip firms for insights into the administration.

    Since Trump's election, Cohen has received more than $2.3 million in payments from corporate clients, including $600,000 from telecom giant AT&T and $1.2 million from Swiss-based drugmaker Novartis.
     
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