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(24,128 posts)Goodheart
(5,335 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)No cameras allowed.
Leghorn21
(13,526 posts)No doubt there are lots more tweeters there, but these rptrs are keeping up as best they can...I think they have to get up and out outside to send tweets!! CRAZY!
https://mobile.twitter.com/tjryan93?
https://mobile.twitter.com/ShimonPro
https://mobile.twitter.com/BBuchman_CNS
janx
(24,128 posts)Good news. Thanks for the links.
Leghorn21
(13,526 posts)Meanwhile, killer thread from Brandi (who seems to be right in the room, I dunno!)
https://mobile.twitter.com/BBuchman_CNS/status/1026570755562201089
janx
(24,128 posts)I wonder if she writes it all down and then leaves the court room to tweet it. Those tweets were all posted in the same minute or so.
Leghorn21
(13,526 posts)next witness to testify in the Manafort trial.
It is not Rick Gates, as defense attorney Kevin
Downing said it would be earlier this afternoon.
2:55 PM - Aug 6, 2018
Link to tweet
janx
(24,128 posts)Leghorn21
(13,526 posts)We shall henceforth take our cues from Mr. Mueller & Co., PERIOD.
Wwcd
(6,288 posts)Prosecution calls Paula Liss to stand not Gates
After redirect from prosecutor Uzo Asonye and a brief recross from Downing, Laporta was allowed to step down.
Prosecution then called Paula Liss to the stand not Gates, as was expected.
Liss was one of the few unidentifiable people on the prosecution's witness list of 35 individuals.
Following LaPorta, Manafort's accountant, I am just guessing Liss is follow-up to what LaPorta testified to.
I cannot find much on Liss or her association to Manafort/Gates.
Anyone?
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EDIT:
I see Herding Cats post below explains who she is.
Thanks.
"Now on the stand is Paula Liss, a senior special agent at the Treasury Department Financial Crimes Enforcement Network."
UH OH!
Leghorn21
(13,526 posts)Shes with FinCEN!!!!!
Branch of the US Treasury Dept - they do forensic accounting
...and they are not to be trifled with!!!
Wwcd
(6,288 posts)She was on the unidentifiable witness list of 35.
This is a serious testimony.
FinCEN 😨😭
I feel a bit more secure right now.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Only less fun.
Leghorn21
(13,526 posts)herding cats
(19,566 posts)Link to tweet
Link to tweet
Leghorn21
(13,526 posts)senior special agent at the Treasury Department Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.
Yeah BABY!!!
Whassuppp, MANAFORT
janx
(24,128 posts)We can wait for Gates...
herding cats
(19,566 posts)janx
(24,128 posts)spanone
(135,859 posts)brooklynite
(94,699 posts)janx
(24,128 posts)If memory serves, they are not allowed to do that. Do they leave the court room to tweet?
spanone
(135,859 posts)Leghorn21
(13,526 posts)janx
(24,128 posts)Hundreds of thousands of dollars Gates stole from Manafort.
Leghorn21
(13,526 posts)Ha ha, this sure is fun!!
Still waiting to here what our finCEN ninja accountant had to say, though...
We aint forgot about you, Lisa!!!
janx
(24,128 posts)and when it gets that high, I figured I didn't need the adjective.
Leghorn21
(13,526 posts)watching Paul Manafort stare down his former
deputy, arms crossed, as Rick Gates recounted
the long list of his alleged crimes was remarkable. #ManafortTrial
Link to tweet
Paul has a mad, looks like
Court adjourned, now lets go find out what Lisa said!!!?
janx
(24,128 posts)Also, see my post #27. What other crimes could those be? I don't want to make unwarranted assumptions, but could these indictments be some kind of groundwork for indictments to come?
I mean why would that even come up--obviously prompted by prosecutors...?
Leghorn21
(13,526 posts)so far - so Im going to be looking for news of her (Lisa)..I think she got swept away with Gates appearance- ?
Also, I have NO IDEA where all those other CRIMES will lead us - but I think itll be to GOOD PLACES!!
What a day! Mild-mannered, mousy, low-key accountant guy BLOWS THE LID FKN OFF THIS TREACHERY -
hell yeah
Leghorn21
(13,526 posts)NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former U.S. Justice Department official has become the latest lawyer to join special counsel Robert Mueller's team investigating Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election, a spokesman for the team confirmed.
Greg Andres started on Tuesday, becoming the 16th lawyer on the team, said Josh Stueve, a spokesman for the special counsel.
Most recently a white-collar criminal defense lawyer with New York law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell, Andres, 50, served at the Justice Department from 2010 to 2012. He was deputy assistant attorney general in the criminal division, where he oversaw the fraud unit and managed the program that targeted illegal foreign bribery.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/8/1/1686162/-Mueller-Hires-Fraud-amp-Bribery-Expert
OH LOOK: - from May 2011:
The revelations just keep coming in the trial of notorious mob boss Vincent 'Vinny Gorgeous' Basciano.
Less than two weeks after he was convicted of ordering the death of a former Mafia associate, another turncoat witness testified that the former Bonanno boss had planned to kill assistant U.S. attorney Greg Andres for issuing Basciano's wife with a subpoena.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1390736/Mob-boss-Vinny-Gorgeous-planned-shooting-assistant-U-S-attorney-Greg-Andres.html
HANG TOUGH, MR. ANDRES
Leghorn21
(13,526 posts)re: Judge Ellis and Greg Andres is...not fun
https://mobile.twitter.com/BBuchman_CNS/status/1026596337188593664
No one knows what to make of Judge Ellis
Im gonna stay caaallllmmm
On edit: per nbc:
Lisss testimony was very brief, focusing on FBAR, or Reports of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts.
Short and sweet and *hopefully* very painful testimony!
janx
(24,128 posts)https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/manafort-trial/index.html
Leghorn21
(13,526 posts)Rick Gates: Yes
Prosecutor: Is Mr. Manafort F*cked?
Que My Cousin Vinny.. Its okay, you can say it. They know 😂🤣😂🤣
Link to tweet
RT @AriMelber "In court now:
Prosecutor on Muellers team asks Rick Gates if he committed crimes with Paul Manafort.
Yes, Gates says.
First time a senior Trump campaign official has confessed to a crime on the stand."
Link to tweet
https://mobile.twitter.com/search?q=%22Rick+Gates%22
REPEAT:
First time a senior Trump campaign official has confessed to a crime on the stand."
THANK YOU MR. MUELLER & CO.
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)Link to tweet
Link to tweet
janx
(24,128 posts)Why? (Rhetorical question.)
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)NoSmoke
(69 posts)1) Thinks he will get a pardon.
2) Knows what the Rooskies do to those who annoy them.
3) Mueller knows enough of it already so no plea deal was offered.
janx
(24,128 posts)I'm guessing mainly #3.
kentuck
(111,110 posts)janx
(24,128 posts)that Manafort is stupid, but he does have attorneys, right? Trump is going down one way or another. Hell, even Cohen is smarter than Manafort in that respect.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)Initech
(100,099 posts)janx
(24,128 posts)He's comin' down again!