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Rick Gates will plead guilty to fraud-related charges within days and has made clear to prosecutors that he would testify against Paul Manafort, the Los Angeles Times reports.
According to a person familiar with those talks, Gates, a longtime political consultant, can expect a substantial reduction in his sentence if he fully cooperates with the investigation. He said that Gates is apt to serve about 18 months in prison.
https://politicalwire.com/2018/02/18/gates-will-now-testify-manafort/
triron
(22,026 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)of the sewage treatment plant. They grow to monster size. I've seen some around five feet long and exceedingly fat.
There is a certain orange tinged, super fat carp gorging himself on raw sewage that Mueller is going after.
VMA131Marine
(4,158 posts)is to give up a bigger fish. He might be safer in prison though.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Mueller will not let this Guy go. Manafort's comments and action have not gone unnoticed by the Investigator's. Never try to intimate or Humiliate your Investigator,usually ends up ugly. And Bank Fraud now entering into the Story,you will see a State Action which Trump Nuts can not stop.
Manafort has a LOT to tell, going back many years.
He's s.o.l. either way this turns
VMA131Marine
(4,158 posts)whether Manafort spends the rest of his life in prison or not. If he dishes on Trump he gets out, if not ...
Wwcd
(6,288 posts)imagine how much time he was looking at.
And what Manafort & the likes of Kushner & the Trump family & the rest are looking at serving.
Gates was a big part of the Trump machine but not near the criminal involvement of a few others.
Go get em Mueller. Squeeze them all till the biggest of the crime family is down forever.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)so harsh on the Bail for Manafort. He knows once this Guy breaks House Arrest,he is gone to the nearest Ukraine Consulate and so out of here. Remember,his spouse is a Ukrainian National.
Wwcd
(6,288 posts)High stakes stuff & cutthroat as it gets.
Yikes
I did not know that about Manafort's wife.
Ya think she & the daughter's are still here?
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Believe Mueller froze her and his Bank Accounts the same day.
This Guy is a key to putting Trump Crime Syndicate out of Business.
BTW,waiting to see the Gate's Plea deal. It he going to forfeit his 24 million as a fine?
These cases are going to be stretched out over years and not months. We are dealing with Espionage not a Traffic fine. And we are seeing to what depth these investigations are going. GOP Congressman and Senators will re rolled up.
Wwcd
(6,288 posts)Someone's been talking to Mueller!
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016201768
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Wonder if the European's are finally rolling up Russian Finances and Russian meddling into their Finance and Politics.
As Malcolm Nance has been eluding too,this is a Major Conspiracy to destroy NATO and it's Member Countries. Notice also what seems to be happening in Britain. Efforts are under way to have a Anti-Brexit vote in Britain.
Wwcd
(6,288 posts)I'll try to locate the link.
This news has caused a pissin fight in the country since he hid it so well.
It all plays direct to Putin & the destruction of any fair & free societies.
Brexit UK happened the same way Trump happened to the US.
We'll have to wait for that battle to play out.
Its either a grand smear campaign or the truth.
Either way, its a big problem for Brexit UK.
Ugh!
https://www.google.com/amp/metro.co.uk/2018/02/16/jeremy-corbyn-paid-informant-communist-spies-7319480/amp/
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Notice he was making trips back and forth to the Crimean Area during the Trump Campaign.
Wwcd
(6,288 posts)It's the World vs the Russian Mob & the stakes are unimaginable.
lindysalsagal
(20,747 posts)It's going to rattle international business. The companies connected to this fool are immense. Could there be that many stupid people in the world?
Taking out frump is the bottom card in an acre of cards.
This is conceivable.
Mueller is a god.
badhair77
(4,222 posts)I did not realize that. I think theyre all up to their ears in Russian money and Id be really upset if PM got away.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)of the last Lawyers Meeting with her,sure appears the Legal System is vary wary of Manafort and others.
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)Me thinks Gates knows Mueller has the goods on him, way beyond testifying against Manafort, -
from the Daily Beast - June 2017 - what a good read....boy, Gates has lot's of information...and still gets 18 months...
https://www.thedailybeast.com/despite-russia-controversy-paul-manaforts-partner-is-still-lurking-around-the-white-house
In January 2017, Gates took yet another Trump-related gig and joined America First Policies in alongside Pierson and Brad Parscale, who was responsible for digital and data projects for the campaign.
Hey POS in the White House..lot's to be scared of, you betcha...
Wwcd
(6,288 posts)Crooked little worthless shits, all of them.
They were nobodies till 2016 & they all became celebrities with no end to the money flowing their way by every crooked mobster org on the planet.
Leghorn21
(13,527 posts)That is all