Mueller's Indictment Of Manafort: Desperate Prosecutorial Hail Mary, Or Trap For Trump?

Posted by freedomforall 6 years, 1 month ago to Politics
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"Mueller's decision to indict Manafort and Gates follows a time-honored prosecutorial strategy: Indict the little fish (Manafort and Gates), and after threatening them with hard time in prison and massive fines, get them to snitch on the big fish (Trump).

Based on that, should Trump be worried?

The answer is: Only if he did something wrong — and, as of right now, after nearly a year and a half of investigation, there's zero evidence that he did. This may be nothing more than a prosecutorial Hail Mary, thrown in desperation that something damning might be revealed.

If Trump shouldn't be worried, who should?

The obvious answer is Bill and Hillary Clinton. "
SOURCE URL: https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/muellers-indictment-of-manafort-desperate-prosecutorial-hail-mary-or-trap-for-trump/


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  • Posted by Dobrien 5 years, 10 months ago
    Manafort and Gates were likely plants in Trumps campaign. The twos ties to Tony Podesta are being revealed .
    Former associates told that the Mueller team’s focus was Podesta Group’s work with the Trump campaign's former chairman, Paul Manafort, and his deputy, Rick Gates. In 2012, Manafort and Gates arranged for the Podesta Group to lobby on behalf of an obscure Brussels-based nonprofit called the European Centre for a Modern Ukraine. Manafort worked for the Kremlin-backed President of Ukraine at the time.

    When Gates and Manafort were indicted and pleaded not guilty in October 2017 to charges including money laundering, tax fraud, and failure to register as foreign agents, many of the charges were tied to their work for Kremlin-backed Ukrainian politicians.

    Gates then pleaded guilty in February to reduced charges and agreed to cooperate with Mueller’s investigators. In that agreement filed with the court, Gates admitted that to help hide their foreign lobbying work, he and his partner “arranged for the Centre to be the nominal client” of two Washington, D.C., firms, Mercury Public Affairs, which is still in business, and the Podesta Group.
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