Mueller Team Hands Over 400,000 Items Of Evidence To Manafort And Gates

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo




By TIERNEY SNEED Published DECEMBER 8, 2017 3:31 PM

By Monday, Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team will have handed over to Paul Manafort’s and Rick Gates’ attorneys 400,000 items of evidence in its case against the two former Trump campaign officials as part of the pre-trial discovery process, according to a court document Mueller filed Friday.

The filing, ahead of a status conference slated for Monday, sheds additional light on aspects of Mueller’s investigation into Manafort and Gates. The two men were charged with tax evasion, money laundering and failure to disclose lobbying for foreign agents as part of Mueller’s larger Russia probe. They both have pleaded not guilty.

The 400,000 documents include “financial records, records from vendors identified in the indictment, email communications involving the defendants, and corporate records,” Mueller’s filing said. Mueller also has turned over copies of material found on 36 devices, including laptops, phones and thumb drives. Those devices were obtained in a previously reported early morning raid of Manafort’s home in Virginia in late July.

The filing said that “copies of search warrants and related applications for two searches conducted as part of the investigation were also provided.” It is unclear if the second search is separate from the raid originally reported on Manafort’s home. All told, “copies of fifteen search/seizure warrants and related applications” are being turned over to the defense.

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/mueller-discovery-filing-manafort-gates

[rzemanfl]

1. Your honor, I move the admission of Exhibit AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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[ffr]

2. TPM left out the best part of the article, particularly relevant tax information in another matter.

Another matter? Tax information? Perhaps in or left out of tRump's tax returns? Ruh-roh!

See last paragraph
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029952061

[LiberalFighter]

3. They should include every newspaper or magazine that mentioned his name.

[DeminPennswoods]

4. That's a lot of evidence!

I think I heard on MSBNC that 20,000 records were labeled as "hot" meaning they are particularly significant. It's hard to imagine 20 thousand pieces of highly relevent hard documentary evidence that prosecutors will be using against you.

[malthaussen]

5. Busy little bees, aren't they?

But doens't that give the defense an excuse to whine about needing sufficient time to examine all the evidence?

-- Mal