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When FBI agents picked lock on Manafort's house, they found Ukrainian lobbying records he had told DOJ didn't existhttps://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/925107312322326528/9lKphZcc?format=jpg&name=600x314
The FBIs pre-dawn search of Paul Manaforts northern Virginia home in July yielded important new evidence crucial to the indictment of Donald Trumps campaign chairman and one of his close associates, according to the indictments unsealed yesterday by special counsel Robert Mueller.
The no-knock raid by agents who picked the lock on Manaforts front door turned up records showing the longtime political operative had been directly involved in a secret lobbying campaign on behalf of a Ukrainian political party closely aligned with Vladimir Putins Russian government, according to the court papers. Manafort, who ran Trumps campaign for several crucial months last year, has been charged, along with his longtime business partner Richard Gates, with running a scheme to conceal and avoid paying taxes on millions of dollars in fees they collected for their work.
Manafort and Gates appeared in federal court in Washington and pleaded not guilty to all charges. Manafort and Gates were both released to home confinement. Manafort was freed on a $10 million bond meant to guarantee his future court appearances. Gatess bond was $5 million.
Outside the courthouse, Manafort attorney Kevin Downing attacked the charges, saying there is no evidence that Mr. Manafort or the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government.
The cache of lobbying records appears to be crucial to some of the charges against Manafort and Gates. The two men had previously sought to conceal information about their role in the Ukrainian lobbying campaign which took place before they joined the Trump campaign developing a false and misleading cover story to distance themselves from it and providing false talking points to one of the lobbying firms it hired, the indictment charges.
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When FBI picked lock on Manafort's house-found Ukrainian lobbying records he told DOJ Didn't exist (Original Post)
kpete
Oct 2017
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riversedge
(70,302 posts)1. naughty naughty.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,699 posts)2. I can't but help think of the Doonesbury cartoon that stated:
"Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!"
Gothmog
(145,558 posts)3. That Raid now makes a great deal of sense
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)4. Stupid (R)
Not only are the republicans traitors, liars and grifters, they are apparently pretty damn stoopid when it comes to hiding evidence of their foul crimes against America and Americans.