Mueller Seeks 70 Blank Subpoenas in Manafort Case

[Mrs. Overall]

Source: Courthouse News Service

(CN) – Special Counsel Robert Mueller on Thursday filed a request for 70 blank subpoenas in the Virginia court presiding over one of two criminal proceedings involving former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.

The two-page filing doesn’t offer much in the way of details, but each subpeona orders the recipient to appear at the federal courthouse in Alexandria on July 10 at 10 a.m. to testify in trial of Manafort on charges stemming from Mueller’s investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

Although Manafort faces no charges related to the Trump campaign, he is accused in cases filed both in Alexandria, Virginia and Washington, D.C. of hiding the work he did for and the money he made from a Russia-friendly political party in Ukraine and former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych.

In Virginia, he is also accused of concealing foreign bank accounts, falsifying his income taxes and failing to report foreign bank accounts.

In Washington, Manafort faces counts of conspiracy to launder more than $30 million, making false statements, failing to follow lobbying disclosure laws and working as an unregistered foreign agent.

This story is developing …

Read more: https://www.courthousenews.com/mueller-seeks-70-blank-subpoenas-in-manafort-case/

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[lagomorph777]

1. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Holy effin A! By all the powers that power the Universe, may he serve every last one of them. On a silver platter. With a side of turd.

Many many many people are about to go down.

[Achilleaze]

2. In the name of justice and all that is good and decent in the world,

all 70 subpoenas are hereby granted by order of the honest, and decent citizens of the USA

Root out the republicans traitors who have betrayed America.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. 70? Blank?

Wonder why they don't want the identities made public yet.

[Stallion]

7. A Federal Subpoena (at least in a Civil Case) Can Be Issued by an Attorney but Must be Stamped First

..by clerk

[CentralMass]

11. A related article.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcrmp/rule_17

[leftynyc]

4. Damn - I'm going to be out of the country

on July 10. I guess it's MSNBC TO GO for me that week.

[Baitball Blogger]

5. There are seventy people who are praying that the Rapture takes place before July 10th.

[onetexan]

25. our thoughts & prayers for the near deceased

[avebury]

6. We need to start a guessing game on who the lucky recipients will be!

[dameatball]

9. If this were poker and I had Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan and Devin Nunes my poker face would fail

[blugbox]

24. Any one of us would crack

with a hand like that haha

[ffr]

8. Live Stream that chit!!!

I'll bankroll the popcorn.

No wait, no. That'll bankrupt me, my family, my community and probably my country. Holy chit!

[Turbineguy]

10. Add to resume:

"I have never met or been involved with Donald J Trump."

[KY_EnviroGuy]

14. K & R. Big note to self, LOL.

........ .........

[erronis]

27. Or the go to response: To the best of my recollection, I never met the guy or visited the WH.

Senility has its privileges, I know.

[rsdsharp]

12. They are trial subpoenas.

Manafort's trial begins July 10th.

[SunSeeker]

13. Those are all subpoenas to compel witness testimony at Manafort's 7-10-18 trial.

I imagine all of them will be served on people the Mueller team has already been in contact with. He might not use all of them. They usually ask for more than they need, just in case they discover more witnesses right before trial, or decide to bring in rebuttal witnesses, etc. at the last minute.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

15. What does it mean in parentheses...

(35 sets)?

Thanks.....

[SunSeeker]

17. Where do you see that?

[KY_EnviroGuy]

20. On the request shown in the OP, just over the signature line.

[steventh]

18. 35 sets

In my jurisdiction the original subpoena is served on the named recipient. The second, duplicate copy is filed with the court with a certificate of service.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

21. So this means they're calling in 35 witnesses, not 70 - right?

Thanks for that info.....

[Native]

22. right. they come in sets of 2

[sarcasmo]

31. Copies would be my guess.

[flying_wahini]

16. I admit I am confused about this... somebody explain this in English.

Does this mean there are 70 people or 70 crimes? Can you consolidate crimes in one
Subpoena? What will we know by these?

[Native]

23. supposedly the subpoenas are for witnesses in the trial

[SunSeeker]

26. No. A trial subpoena is just a demand you show up to testify at trial.

It has nothing to do with the number of crimes, but rather the number of witnesses the prosecution expects to have testify at trial to prove their case.

[Stallion]

29. 35 Trial Witnesses Have Been Ordered by the Court to Appear to Testify at Manaford's Trial

usually they all show up on first day but will be sworn in by Judge and released as long as they agree to appear when called by the attorneys when they are expected to actually take the stand to testify

some may even be cooperating witnesses but are still served with subpoena so they can be held in contempt if they don't comply. If they don't appear then a Judge will issue a bench warrant to have the US Marshal's pick them up and take them to Court

The other duplicate 35 original are filled out by the attorney issuing the subpoenas and sent back to the Court clerk reflecting a Certificate of Service showing the manner, time and place of service so the Court has a record of actual service before a non-appearing witness is arrested and held in contempt

[MGKrebs]

37. Hmm, this is in addition to a previous 35?

"A spokesman for the special counsel confirmed to The Hill that the filing is an additional set of requests, after prosecutors previously requested 35 sets of blank subpoenas for the trial."

http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/386135-mueller-requests-additional-70-blank-subpoenas-in-manafort-case

[flying_wahini]

38. Thanks the both for responding -- it all gets pretty confusing.

[PaulX2]

19. It's Getting Real

Real fast.

[enid602]

28. 70!!!!!??????

Cue the disco music!

It's raining men, halelujah!!!

[sarcasmo]

30. Roger Stone, on deck.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

32. Sucks to be these guys

[Xipe Totec]

33. Here's a question - Can Trump be subpoenaed as a witness in Manafort's trial? nt

[nolabels]

34. Many of the procedures and customs of the federal government are just adoptions and not really laws.

No doubt there is code and regulation but such a sweeping enumeration would have never been passed or have been presented on the silent sleepy night for nare to hear.

Presidents And Subpoenas
https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/presidents-and-subpoenas

[laserhaas]

35. WOW

[riversedge]

36. #MUELLER seems to ha!!ve lots of witnesses. GOOD