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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis is just the beginning for Manafort. It gets worse.
Speaking as someone who has a story coming this week:
https://twitter.com/AdamWeinstein/status/764992807236808704
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)Per Brian Fallon..'It's the classic love triangle'
Funtatlaguy
(10,879 posts)Oh, what the hell....
Doesn't he look like a mobster right out of a movie....
The jet black hair dye job helps as does the superior asshole attitude.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,855 posts)He reminds me of well-dressed guys that I happened to meet at a restaurant near New Orleans who also gave me that impression.
OldRedneck
(1,397 posts)Here is the Wikipedia article on Carlos Marcello.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Marcello
Good friend of mine was married to Marcello's daughter then divorced. My friend spent 5 years in Carville Federal Pen for money laundering for Carlos.
hamsterjill
(15,222 posts)I know - shame on me! But when I say him speak, my opinion was reaffirmed. Looks and sounds like someone with a lot to hide in my view. Snaky.
PatSeg
(47,501 posts)He gives me the creeps.
-Steph-
(409 posts)I'm curious to see what's in the works.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)There just is no way to make this stuff up!! This is a court pleading. Unbelievable. These are the political operatives running Trump for President.
First get some spy files from Israel, alter them to look like Argentine spy files, make them implicate Bush and Menem in corruption, blame Gore for the forged documents. Sound familiar. Did I mention blackmailing bribed journalists and, of course, the perennial covert Republican dirty tricksters. This genre of dirty trick came to be known as "swiftboating" when done to Kerry four years later by the same players!!
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http://pacer.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinion.pdf/041901.P.pdf
Olavar (Triumph Communications International Group, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v.
Santibañes, Defendant-Appellee, and Ikon Holdings, Inc., t/a Ikon Public Affairs, Dick Morris, Roger Stone, Eileen McGann, John Does, Defendants.
Appeal from the United States District Court Decided: December 1, 2005
Triumph Communications International Group, Incorporated is a corporation that provides political consulting and public relations services and is owned and operated solely by Mattie Lolavar.
In early 2000, Miss Lolavar began discussions with defendant Dick Morris about the possibility of her working with Craig Snyder and defendant Roger Stone, who are partners in defendant IKON Holdings, Inc., another political consulting firm ... about the possibility of Triumph Communications assistance with work that IKON was doing for the government of Argentina.
These discussions lead to two contracts ... and provided that Triumph would act as a public relations consultant to "the Secretary of Intelligence of Argentina" as well as arrange various media events...
Miss Lolavar went to Argentina in August 2000 to assist de Santibañes with preparations for his testimony in Argentine congressional hearings inquiring into allegations that he and the Argentine intelligence agency, known as SIDE, were responsible for bribing various Argentine senators in exchange for political support. Morris and Stone assigned other tasks to Miss Lolavar while she was in Argentina. Among other acts, they instructed her to contact SIDE and obtain a list of journalists who accepted bribes from that organization in order to harm the credibility of those same journalists in reporting on a bribery scandal surrounding de Santibañes and President de la Rua, as well as requiring her to spread false information to the press concerning de la Ruas political opponent, Dr. Carlos Menem. The charges and counter-charges related here are from the papers in the court file, as are the other facts.
A request that occasioned controversy between Miss Lolavar and the defendants was Morris and Stones request that she serve as an intermediary in an anonymous wire transfer of funds to an official in Israel. These funds were to be paid to secure intelligence files from the Israeli government to assist de la Ruas political domestic disputes with Menem, and to imply a corrupt relationship between Menem and George W. Bush, who was then running against Albert Gore for the United States presidency. These files were to be altered by Miss Lolavar to appear to be SIDE documents.
When the defendants became concerned that this plot would be discovered and traced back to them, they ordered Miss Lolavar to orchestrate a press response to blame Vice President Gore for the dissemination of the documents, since it was known to them that the Gore campaign had been attempting to connect Menem with the Bush campaign.
world wide wally
(21,744 posts)Blue Idaho
(5,049 posts)What did Trump know and when did he know it?