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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTHE CHARGES: Whoa, conspiracy against the US?
Conspiracy against the United States!! BOOM! That's not tax evasion, my friends.APBREAKING: Special Counsel: Ex-Trump campaign chairman indicted on conspiracy against the US, money laundering, other charges.
ALL OF IT HERE:
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4163363-Manafort-Gates-Indictment.html?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP_Politics
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ALL OF IT HERE:
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4163363-Manafort-Gates-Indictment.html?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP_Politics
President Donald Trump's former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, and a deputy campaign official, Rick Gates, have been indicted on 12 counts of charges, according to a spokesman for Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
The charges include "conspiracy against the United States, conspiracy to launder money, unregistered agent of a foreign principal, false and misleading FARA statements, false statements, and seven counts of failure to file reports of foreign bank and financial accounts," the spokesman said.
The indictment was unsealed Monday after Manafort and Gates surrendered to the FBI. Read it in full here.
The charges are the first in Mueller's investigation into possible Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/Robert-Mueller-Russia-Investigation-Indictment-454045243.html
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The charges aren't directly about Manafort/Gates work for Trump. But this is who the "America First" candidate hired to run his campaign:
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The international populist white nationalism has been very lucrative for a handful of people.
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THE CHARGES: Whoa, conspiracy against the US? (Original Post)
kpete
Oct 2017
OP
Seems hard to believe that Jared Kushner will not face similar charges at some point
OliverQ
Oct 2017
#14
RandySF
(59,225 posts)1. It's a tax-related charge.
ksoze
(2,068 posts)2. Unfortunately not directly Trump campaign related
the conspiracy is hiding money using foreign banks, etc.
BigmanPigman
(51,627 posts)12. Maybe they'll flip and nail him at the end.
kentuck
(111,110 posts)15. The two leaders of the Trump campaign are indicted.
So, some might say it is about the Trump campaign.
dalton99a
(81,578 posts)3. Same should apply to Donald Trump and his spawn
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)4. Us the people of the United States of America demand to be made whole.
bluepen
(620 posts)5. Holy crap, that sounds bad. Is it just tax stuff?
ancianita
(36,133 posts)6. Not tax. FARA. When you break the FARA law, that's what you get charged with.
The Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) is a United States law passed in 1938 requiring that agents representing the interests of foreign powers in a "political or quasi-political capacity" disclose their relationship with the foreign government and information about related activities and finances
.GoCubsGo
(32,093 posts)7. Those "other charges" could very well be tax evasion.
And, Manafort is not done. He might still have additional charges on these two, and I have little doubt they will be the only ones indicted.
But, yeah. BOOM!!!!
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)8. What ab Wilbur Ross, Manafort used his bank in Cyprus.
demmiblue
(36,885 posts)9. 12 counts:
ksoze
(2,068 posts)10. Conspiracy to launder money and false statements
avebury
(10,952 posts)11. If they are charging Manafort and Gates with charges relating to FARA
I would think that there would be comparable charges relating to FARA against Kushner and Flynn Sr.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)13. It's heavy stuff, and given what Manafort was involved in with Trump,
he is now a very ripe tomato, ready to be squeezed.
Just for starters, Mueller can now force him to tell what happened before, during, and after the Trump Tower meeting with Putin's agents in June 2016.
OliverQ
(3,363 posts)14. Seems hard to believe that Jared Kushner will not face similar charges at some point
considering how many things related to money, foreign banks, foreign payments, etc. he left off his security clearance forms.
OnDoutside
(19,970 posts)16. What does conviction of these charges carry in terms of Jail Time ?