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RandySF

(59,447 posts)
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 05:40 PM Feb 2018

Gates Will Now Testify Against Manafort

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/

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Gates Will Now Testify Against Manafort (Original Post) RandySF Feb 2018 OP
Mueller wants bigger fish. triron Feb 2018 #1
Reminds me of the super sized carp living just downstream ProudLib72 Feb 2018 #4
Manafort's only hope now to avoid serious prison time VMA131Marine Feb 2018 #2
Manafort will see Prison time. Wellstone ruled Feb 2018 #5
K & R Wwcd Feb 2018 #6
The difference is going to be VMA131Marine Feb 2018 #7
WOW. If Gates testifying gets his jail time reduced to 18 mo, then Wwcd Feb 2018 #3
Now we see why Mueller has been Wellstone ruled Feb 2018 #8
Definately, Mueller keeps him in the US & alive. Wwcd Feb 2018 #9
No news reports about her since the FBI raid. Wellstone ruled Feb 2018 #13
Just posted this: Latvia & the Trumps Wwcd Feb 2018 #14
Caught that story on the Guardian Friday. Wellstone ruled Feb 2018 #15
Britan too. New news saying Jeremy Corbin is an ex KGB spy. Just read that bit yesterday Wwcd Feb 2018 #16
Caught the Same. Wellstone ruled Feb 2018 #17
Every free country, every NATO ally is threatened by the same thing that took place in 2016 USA. Wwcd Feb 2018 #19
Holy. Effing. Crap. lindysalsagal Feb 2018 #21
Interesting. badhair77 Feb 2018 #10
Read some of the Judges Commentary Wellstone ruled Feb 2018 #20
Gates has made clear to prosecutors that he would testify against Paul Manafort - asiliveandbreathe Feb 2018 #11
Gaaaah! That dirty weasel Parscale better go down hard as Kushner & DT jr. Wwcd Feb 2018 #18
BRING. ME. MANAFORT. Leghorn21 Feb 2018 #12
kick for visibility triron Feb 2018 #22

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
4. Reminds me of the super sized carp living just downstream
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 05:45 PM
Feb 2018

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)
2. Manafort's only hope now to avoid serious prison time
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 05:43 PM
Feb 2018

is to give up a bigger fish. He might be safer in prison though.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
5. Manafort will see Prison time.
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 05:55 PM
Feb 2018

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.

VMA131Marine

(4,158 posts)
7. The difference is going to be
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 06:01 PM
Feb 2018

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)
3. WOW. If Gates testifying gets his jail time reduced to 18 mo, then
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 05:45 PM
Feb 2018

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)
8. Now we see why Mueller has been
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 06:03 PM
Feb 2018

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)
9. Definately, Mueller keeps him in the US & alive.
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 06:09 PM
Feb 2018

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)
13. No news reports about her since the FBI raid.
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 06:25 PM
Feb 2018

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.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
15. Caught that story on the Guardian Friday.
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 06:45 PM
Feb 2018

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)
16. Britan too. New news saying Jeremy Corbin is an ex KGB spy. Just read that bit yesterday
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 06:57 PM
Feb 2018

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)
17. Caught the Same.
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 07:01 PM
Feb 2018

Notice he was making trips back and forth to the Crimean Area during the Trump Campaign.

 

Wwcd

(6,288 posts)
19. Every free country, every NATO ally is threatened by the same thing that took place in 2016 USA.
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 07:27 PM
Feb 2018

It's the World vs the Russian Mob & the stakes are unimaginable.

lindysalsagal

(20,747 posts)
21. Holy. Effing. Crap.
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 07:54 PM
Feb 2018


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)
10. Interesting.
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 06:11 PM
Feb 2018

I did not realize that. I think they’re all up to their ears in Russian money and I’d be really upset if PM got away.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
20. Read some of the Judges Commentary
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 07:30 PM
Feb 2018

of the last Lawyers Meeting with her,sure appears the Legal System is vary wary of Manafort and others.

asiliveandbreathe

(8,203 posts)
11. Gates has made clear to prosecutors that he would testify against Paul Manafort -
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 06:13 PM
Feb 2018

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)
18. Gaaaah! That dirty weasel Parscale better go down hard as Kushner & DT jr.
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 07:22 PM
Feb 2018

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.

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