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Full transcript of Judge Ellis' 4 May, 48 page beatdown of the Mueller team
This short excerpt might indicate it began going poorly for the Mueller team within the first five minutes or so:MR. DREEBEN: Yes, Your Honor. THE COURT: All right. The indictment against Mr. Manafort was filed in February, but it actually was antedated by a filing in the District of Columbia. These allegations of bank fraud, of false income tax returns, of failure to register or report rather, failure to file reports of foreign bank accounts, and bank fraud, these go back to 2005, 2007,and so forth. Clearly, this investigation of Mr. Manafort's bank loans and so forth antedated the appointment of any special prosecutor and, therefore, must've been underway in the Department of Justice for some considerable period before the letter of appointment, which is dated the 17th of May in 2017. Am I correct? MR. DREEBEN: That is correct, Your Honor. THE COURT: All right. So when the special prosecutor was appointed -- and I have the letter of appointment in front of me -- what did they do? Turnover their file on their investigation of Mr. Manafort to you all? MR. DREEBEN: Essentially, Your Honor, special counsel was appointed to conduct an investigation -- THE COURT: I'm sorry. Answer my question. Posted by: Besoeker 2018-05-07 |
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