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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Former Trump Campaign Manager Paul Manafort To Surrender In Russia Probe
2017-10-30
[Huffpoo] WASHINGTON ― Paul Manafort, onetime campaign chairman to President Donald Trump, and former business associate Rick Gates have been told to surrender to federal authorities, multiple news outlets reported on Monday. Manafort was spotted by reporters leaving his condo in Virginia early on Monday.

Manafort and Gates are expected to be charged in an intensifying investigation into Russian meddling in the United States’ 2016 presidential election.

The office of special counsel Robert Mueller, which is conducting the probe, is expected to serve the indictment on Monday. The apparent forthcoming arrests come three days after news broke that a federal grand jury in Washington had filed the first charges stemming from Mueller’s investigation.
Posted by:Besoeker

#12  Remember Martha Stewart? This... stinks.
Posted by: magpie   2017-10-30 18:30  

#11  Judge is a Clinton donor. Therefore, Trump will pardon Manafort and Gates.
Posted by: Threatch Jeamp8135   2017-10-30 15:32  

#10  I read the charges. Manafort hasn"t done anything that the Clintons haven't already done on a larger scale.
Posted by: Threatch Jeamp8135   2017-10-30 14:37  

#9  My read is, none of it has anything to do with Trump and should have been looked into under the Soetoro regime.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-10-30 13:00  

#8  The indictment impresses me as Manafort wouldn't (or couldn't) make a deal, and is now being punished.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-10-30 12:40  

#7  Two time Obama appointee Judge Amy Berman Jackson
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-10-30 12:30  

#6  Text of Manafort/Gates indictment.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-10-30 12:23  

#5  1. Does Manafort have anything on Trump he can make a deal with? That is clearly the goal.
2. If not, would he make something up? His history suggests he would.
From the beginning the Deep State knew it had to get rid of Trump, and Manafort might give them a plausible charge for Impeachment - operative word is 'plausible.' With both parties wanting him out, all they need is an excuse, not a legitimate criminal conviction.
Posted by: Glenmore   2017-10-30 11:23  

#4  If you fish long enough, you can find something.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-10-30 10:42  

#3  And here I thought I heard Sessions say if anything came up outside the Russian probe, that work would be handed over to another prosecutor?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2017-10-30 09:24  

#2  Surrendered in answer to charges of money laundering in 2012-13.

Mueller and Co. have him by the short ones and will use their power to squeeze him for Trump dirt.

And,yeah, I'm sure it is a coincidence in timing./sarc
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy   2017-10-30 08:47  

#1  A well timed DNC-Fusion GPS news blocker, coming on a Monday morning as opposed to late after lunch on a Friday.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-10-30 08:22  

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