Judge Scoffs at Manaforts Doctor Letter Suggesting House Arrest Endangers His Health

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Buzzfeed, Politico


by Colin Kalmbacher | 5:38 pm, January 16th, 2018

The judge overseeing Paul Manafort‘s criminal prosecution today dismissed the notion that house arrest is detrimental to the defendant’s health–and then suggested that he get some exercise.

After rejecting a motion by special counsel Robert Mueller to begin Manafort’s trial in May, U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson heard and referenced motions, arguments and documents entered by the defense.

One such document was a doctor’s note written on behalf of Manafort by his personal physician.

Jackson apparently referenced the document dismissively, telling Manafort’s attorney Kevin Downing that a doctor’s note wasn’t going to cut it and that a formal motion had to be submitted if Manafort wanted to change the the terms of his house arrest.

Read more: https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/judge-scoffs-at-manaforts-doctor-letter-suggesting-house-arrest-endangers-his-health/

[CanonRay]

1. I'm going to go out on a limb here

and predict he won't like prison

[Owl]

2. Why was Muellers motion rejected?

[pnwmom]

4. I couldn't find out why, and there isn't much out there about that, but I found this:

unfortunately, it's a right-wing site, but it's all I could find.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trial-for-paul-manafort-and-rick-gates-not-expected-until-fall/article/2646062

The criminal trial of President Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort and his business partner, Rick Gates, will likely not start until September at the earliest — putting it extremely close to the 2018 midterm elections.

On Friday, special counsel Robert Mueller filed papers asking for a trial date of May 14.

At a status conference Tuesday morning in Washington, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson declined to set a trial date, instead scheduling another status conference for potentially setting a trial date for Feb. 14.

Jackson also set a hearing on April 17 for the first round of motions from both the defense and the prosecution.

[BumRushDaShow]

7. There was a LBN post this morning citing TPM with the story too

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141962694

Any hopes by President Trump that the special counsel’s Russia investigation will be wrapped up by the first half of the year were put into question Tuesday, with comments by a federal judge indicating the trial for his former campaign chair and another former aide might not begin until September or October, in the run up to the midterm elections.

U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson declined to set a trial date for Paul Manafort and Rick Gates at a status conference Tuesday morning.

Instead, noting the massive amount of discovery the defense was having to work through, she suggested that the May date proposed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team last week was too soon. She hinted that a date in September or October might end up being more appropriate.

Jackson said that a trial date would be nailed down after the first round of motions — in which the defense will have the chance to argue any defects in the prosecution or the indictment — are dealt with. Those motions and responses are to be filed in in February and March, she said, with a hearing on them set for April 17.

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Read more: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/manafort-trial-october-september-status-conference

[pnwmom]

8. September would be good. Nice and close to the election. nt

[BumRushDaShow]

10. Heh heh

[SHRED]

3. Then put him in prison...

...where he can be "cared for".

[keithbvadu2]

12. Great idea! Bigly, even! Right wingers love to whine that prisoners get free health care.

[marble falls]

5. I'm scoffing, too. Unless he decides he wants to go to jail right now instead.

[catbyte]

6. Why isn't he already in jail for trying to pen that op-ed with the Russian agent awhile back?

Paul Manafort Wrote Op-Ed With Russian While On Bail
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team says the op-ed reflects an intention to circumvent court orders in the Russia probe.

By Alexa Lardieri, Staff Writer |Dec. 5, 2017, at 9:08 a.m.



President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort was ghostwriting an op-ed with a Russian with ties to the Russian intelligence service while out on bail last month, Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team said, CNN reported.

Manafort was working on the op-ed, written in English, as recently as Nov. 30. It related to his political work in Ukraine and his foreign lobbying and money laundering criminal charges.

In a court filing, Mueller's team claims "Manafort worked on the draft with a long-time Russian colleague of Manafort's, who is currently based in Russia and assessed to have ties to a Russian intelligence service," ABC News reported.

The filing from Mueller's team Monday asked the court to renegotiate the $10 million unsecured bail and house arrest agreement Mueller's office and Manafort's lawyers made last week. It asserts the op-ed reflects "an intention to violate or circumvent the Court's existing Orders." Therefore, "the government submits that the proposed bail package is insufficient to reasonably to assure his appearance as required," according to ABC.

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https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2017-12-05/paul-manafort-wrote-op-ed-with-russian-while-on-bail

[riversedge]

9. Well, you could sit in the jail and see what it does to your health.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

11. "His health would be much improved by walking into the airport and onto an airplane." - Dr. Feelgood

"His mental health would be a lot better if he could look out the window and see the Atlantic Ocean."

[truthisfreedom]

13. In prison he can get a lot of exercise running from

Bubba.

[meadowlander]

14. You left out her brilliant comment - "He's confined to the house, not the couch."

[not fooled]

15. It's been a day

for flaky, unconvincing medical claims.

First the dump physical press conference with the fast-talking dr. claiming all sorts of wacky stuff, now this.