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Paul Manafort "intentionally" lied to special counsel Robert Mueller's office, breaking the plea agreement that made him the star cooperator in the Russia probe, a federal judge found on Wednesday.

Manafort "made multiple false statements to the FBI, the OSC and the grand jury concerning matters that were material to the investigation," including his contacts with his Russian associate during the campaign and later, Judge Amy Berman Jackson wrote on Wednesday.

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Prosecutors have said they don't have plans at this time to bring additional charges against Manafort. But the finding Wednesday that Manafort misled prosecutors brings additional detractions into his upcoming sentencings. He will ultimately receive two sentences that could total decades in prison, one for the financial convictions and one for the guilty plea.

Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee are pushing back on a claim by the panel’s chair, Richard Burr (R-N.C.), that the committee’s two-year investigation has not found “anything that would suggest there was collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.” And they dispute an NBC News report saying that Democrats agreed with Burr that they have yet to see clear evidence of a conspiracy between President Donald Trump and Moscow.

“That’s not true,” Sen. Angus King, a Maine independent who caucuses with Democrats, told Mother Jones. “I think it’s misleading. The intelligence committee hasn’t discussed the matter, let alone released a committee report.”

em2nought wrote: ↑Wed Feb 13, 2019 7:39 pm Wow, this thread kinda dropped off the map

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/ ... on-1156624

em2nought wrote: ↑Wed Feb 13, 2019 7:39 pm Wow, this thread kinda dropped off the map

"Based on the evidence to date," Burr said, the committee could not definitively say there was collusion between Trump and the Russians.

"If we write a report based upon the facts that we have, then we don't have anything that would suggest there was collusion by the Trump campaign and Russia," Burr told CBS.

Mueller's team has made headlines by indicting a number of Trump associates for a litany of crimes, but Burr said his committee has also "not been shy" referring people for criminal prosecution and that the scope of the probe "gave us tremendous insight to know when somebody was lying to us."

Blackhawk wrote: ↑Thu Feb 14, 2019 1:16 am Hamburlgar says no hamburgers were burgled. News at 11.

GreenGoo wrote: ↑Thu Feb 14, 2019 11:25 am MaCabe/Rosenstein opened obstruction probe

Disgraced FBI Acting Director Andrew McCabe pretends to be a “poor little Angel” when in fact he was a big part of the Crooked Hillary Scandal & the Russia Hoax - a puppet for Leakin’ James Comey. I.G. report on McCabe was devastating. Part of “insurance policy” in case I won....

Smoove_B wrote: ↑Wed Feb 13, 2019 8:23 pm Probably because of the news surrounding Manafort:

Paul Manafort "intentionally" lied to special counsel Robert Mueller's office, breaking the plea agreement that made him the star cooperator in the Russia probe, a federal judge found on Wednesday.

Manafort "made multiple false statements to the FBI, the OSC and the grand jury concerning matters that were material to the investigation," including his contacts with his Russian associate during the campaign and later, Judge Amy Berman Jackson wrote on Wednesday.

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Prosecutors have said they don't have plans at this time to bring additional charges against Manafort. But the finding Wednesday that Manafort misled prosecutors brings additional detractions into his upcoming sentencings. He will ultimately receive two sentences that could total decades in prison, one for the financial convictions and one for the guilty plea.

Bellingcat previously confirmed that a third GRU officer was present in the UK during the time Sergey and Yulia Skripal fell into a coma, after what the UK authorities said was a deliberate poisoning with Novichok. In addition, Bellingcat established that this same officer traveled multiple times to Bulgaria during 2015, including a trip days before a Bulgarian arms trader and his son were severely poisoned with a yet-unidentified poison.

LawBeefaroni wrote: ↑Thu Feb 14, 2019 4:07 pm The Russians just cast a wide net. They reeled in a bunch of individuals who may or may not have been working together, but who undoubtedly intended to work with the Russians.

Pyperkub wrote: ↑Thu Feb 14, 2019 4:32 pm

LawBeefaroni wrote: ↑Thu Feb 14, 2019 4:07 pm The Russians just cast a wide net. They reeled in a bunch of individuals who may or may not have been working together, but who undoubtedly intended to work with the Russians.

Not just Russians. The GRU.

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Thu Feb 14, 2019 5:05 pm Professional Russians.

pr0ner wrote: ↑Thu Feb 14, 2019 7:21 pm

GungHo wrote: ↑Fri Feb 15, 2019 1:51 am
Who in their right mind would want to work for this tool?

Special counsel Robert Mueller's team has interviewed White House press secretary Sarah Sanders, she told CNN on Friday.
"The President urged me, like he has everyone in the administration, to fully cooperate with the special counsel. I was happy to voluntarily sit down with them," Sanders said in response to a question from CNN.
The interview is one of the final known interviews by Mueller's team. It came around the same time as the special counsel interviewed former White House chief of staff John Kelly, well after a number of other senior officials, including former White House communications director Hope Hicks and former press secretary Sean Spicer, were brought in for questioning.

NEW: In Paul Manafort's EDVA case, Mueller's prosecutors are asking for a jail sentence of 235 to 293 months (approx 19-24 years) in prison, a fine range of $50,000 to $24+ million, restitution of $24+ million, and forfeiture in the amount of $4+ million.

Roger Stone now directly attacking the federal judge presiding over his case and posting a pic of her head beside crosshairs

GreenGoo wrote: ↑Mon Feb 18, 2019 5:57 pm Has the gag order been finalized yet? Either way, this bodes well for him. Very well indeed. Incredibly media savvy. Justice system savvy? Not so much.

Pyperkub wrote: ↑Mon Feb 18, 2019 6:20 pm Gag order was only for at the Courthouse, and on the Courthouse steps. Away from the Courthouse, there is no gag order.

GreenGoo wrote: ↑Mon Feb 18, 2019 7:03 pm

Pyperkub wrote: ↑Mon Feb 18, 2019 6:20 pm Gag order was only for at the Courthouse, and on the Courthouse steps. Away from the Courthouse, there is no gag order.

That doesn't make any sense. Isn't a gag order about the subject matter, not the location?

Judge Amy Berman Jackson ordered that lawyers and others in the case must not talk about it publicly in ways that "pose a substantial likelihood of material prejudice" and specifically they must not use the area outside court in Washington, D.C., as a venue for those kinds of statements.

Jackson wrote in her order she has responsibilities to protect the ability to seat an impartial jury and "maintain the dignity and seriousness of the courthouse and these proceedings."

Holman wrote: ↑Mon Feb 18, 2019 7:24 pm In other words, he can grandstand on Fox and on Twitter but not on the courthouse steps.

LawBeefaroni wrote: ↑Tue Feb 19, 2019 9:59 am He's going for the best of both worlds. Gets to put his bullshit out there to followers but then apologizes to to he court to [try to] avoid any repercussions.