Manafort Heads to Jail After Judge Criticizes Witness Tampering
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Paul Manafort was ordered locked up ahead of his two trials for bank fraud and money laundering.
U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson in Washington revoked Manafort’s bail Friday after prosecutors said Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, attempted to tamper with witnesses for his trial.
Jailing him before trial adds to the pressure Manafort faces to cooperate with Special Counsel Robert Mueller and spill any secrets he knows about Trump and the campaign. Confronting possible criminal charges in New York, Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen may have a similar choice ahead of him. Cohen hasn’t been accused of wrongdoing.
Prosecutors made the Manafort detention request on June 4, when they argued in court papers that he tried to tamper with two witnesses after he was indicted in Washington for a second time on Feb. 23. Four days later, a grand jury indicted Manafort anew, accusing him and an associate of witness tampering. Manafort has pleaded not guilty.
Jackson said she had no way to stop Manafort from contacting people while he’s out on bail.
“This is not middle school,” she told lawyers. “I can’t take his cellphone.”
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Ouch. Poor guy.
"Hey Paul! I dropped the soap, can you bend over and get it for me???"
Witness tampering... Is this guy really that effing dumb? He was calling people that he worked with, trying to get them to lie for him in court....AFTER he was told that these other witness's were cooperating with the investigation? What an IDIOT.
Don't be too surprised when he gets caught doing it again from a prison pay phone.
Oh I won't be. I haven't been to prison, but common sense would say that every single call made by a prisoner is recorded.
He would be pretty dumb if he tried to tamper with witnesses on a jailhouse phone
Yes, they are and sometimes monitored in real time by humans.
It's the cell phone that will be packed in his ass that they can't monitor.
That cavity search is going to be awkward.
"Sir, you're going to have to take that iPad out of your ass".
NT has a self proclaimed expert on the penal system. We can ask him when he shows up on this seed.
As Manafort is squirming around in his seat....
The guard asks, "What are you doing?'
"I'm sending a text message"
Not you, I meant an expert from the other side of the steel bars.
Really? Do tell.
There's a good reason it's called "butt dialing."
We have a leftover from a previous social platform that swore he was arrested for Cocaine distribution and he pulled a gun on the police when they stormed his palatial home. Later saying he won against the police for the firearms charge and got his civil rights returned...
He was busted for lying about all that, he was actually a bad thief, went to prison a few times and didn't have even close to a home let alone palatial. His civil rights were never restored.
Since I was a corrections officer we even discussed having lunch since I live about 2 hours away. Everytime we came close, he disappeared because I would have known the truth right away.
After being busted for his lies on the other site he disappeared and came over here, as soon as he saw many of us came over too he disappeared again.
Just another right winger trying to portray himself as something he is not. Like so many that spouted bullshit business practice that anyone that is actually in business could see right through, and we have a few of them, or the ones that actually tried to make us believe they were a mercenary for the government....that one is still here.
There's another one here too.
I’ve never understood the point of lying about yourself on a forum that is for all intents and purposes anonymous. One must be the epitome of lonely if they are trying to impress anonymous strangers that they will never meet.
I liked the guy here that belonged to the teenage gang in Miami that robbed the coke dealers and got into the shootout with the cops. He then claimed to have gone to prison and had really good stories about the corruption in the prison system. He was actually a really good writer. Him and Verlinger appeared to have some sort of friendship. I think he called himself Cold Vengeance or something like that.
Ah, I know who you're talking about. Didn't realize he was here.
Yeah, no shit! Oone would never, ever disclose that on an anonymous social website if they really were. First of all the CIA would put such a squash on that an then probably kill them.
The obvious lack of intelligence displayed by these wannabes is mind boggling. Anyone worth their nutsack to the government wouldn't brag like that....
If I were in that business on the opposite side I'd either be laughing my ass pff after I pinpoited him or would have already toasted his nuts on the boulevard.
I had a simple trace program once back in ancient times, a member of another sote we used to belong to bragged he was the owner of a company and had all this spoof shit. I nailed him down to the physical address, which room he was in and the mac address of the terminal he was using. Confirmed it with the company name and his position in the company....which was nowhere near being the owner.
He wiped out and reregged only to be found out by the mods to be reregging.
Cold vengeance is the one that duped you all in to believing he was a big time ex-con stealing from dealers and getting in to shoot outs with the police.
He was actually a small time burglar and a bad one at that.
He told everyone he was living in a mansion, was a general contractor and got his civil rights back....and it was all bullshit.
He was dox'd and I had/have the ability to look up his records....I wouldn't be surprised if he was a punk for a group that used his ass for sperm storage.
I don't care what he was or what he is, I would still trust him more than I would you .I didn't say I would trust him just that I would trust him more than you.
HAhahahahaha that's funny. I really haven't noticed any "Right wingers" portraying themselves. I see a lot of people making claims as to their careers or ancestry that I find to be a joke on a anonymous forum. but they are not "Right wingers".
That explains much.
I was always suspicious of that guy. Thanks for clearing a few things up, Stud
You trust a president that lies over 80% of the time. You have very little credibility.
Do you really think I care what you think?
I didn't really have much choice this election .The other candidate that had a chance of winning was even worse.
Tell that to the CIA contractor here....LOL
Seems unusual for a white collar criminal to have his bail revoked before his trial.
People like Manafort literally think they are above the law because they have stacks of money.
With all his money he can put $100 in the prison/manafort/kitty....He'll be needing toothpaste, candy, etc etc.
This is just to damn funny. How frickin' stupid can he be.
PAh, ya beat me to it.. LOL
And lots of "protection" money.
"Put $50 each in to our accounts and we won't gang bang your ass this week"
You guys are brutal.
I love it
Yes, it's the kind of thing you see in third world countries, such as manufactured confessions. Weissman was responsible for Manafort being put in jail. Weissman has donated thousands of dollars to Hillary, Obama and the DNC. He attended Hillary Clinton's non-acceptance speech for President according to the Washington Post. He put 4 people in prison during the Enron case putting one of them 700 miles in a maximum security prison 700 miles from his home and family until the Supreme Court, in a 9-0 vote in 2005, overturned the Andersen conviction. A year later, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals erased all the fraud convictions against four Merrill Lynch managers. The jury had acquitted another defendant.
Big deal, he destroyed innocent peoples lives just like Mueller has done in the past. Anderson went from a work force of 28,000 down to 200 employees to finish closing the company and they were completely innocent, due to the snake, Weissman, who, when Sally Yates refused to enforce Trump's ban on refugees sent her a text message, saying he was so proud of her. This is where we are today in the United States, where the bottom of the snake pit are all in force against Trump.
Believe me, when I say, I wouldn't vote for a Democrat if my life depended on it. There is no bar of integrity low enough that the Democrats can't crawl under it.
And none of this has anything to do with Trump or his campaign colluding with the Russians.
I don't know about anyone else, but I read probably 100 of the so-called Russian Instagrams, Facebook and twitter so-called adds, which only were devised to cause racial division as far as I could tell. There are about 3500, but if you remove the duplicates I bet there are a 1000 and most of them were after the election.
In one case a man charged by Weissman was told by the judge that he was pleading guilty for a crime that didn't exist. Yes, this is third world America, the perfect place for the Democrat Party.
Weissman:
They say he intimidated witnesses by threatening indictments, created crimes that did not exist and, in one case, withheld evidence that could have aided the accused. At one hearing, an incredulous district court judge looked down at an Enron defendant and told him he was pleading guilty to a wire fraud crime that did not exist.
“ Weissmann seemed more interested in obtaining convictions than in promoting justice,” said Tom Kirkendall , a Houston lawyer who represented an Enron executive.
Said Mr. Cogdell, a colorful courtroom performer dubbed a “gunslinger” by the local press, “He’s the most aggressive prosecutor I’ve ever been up against. He is, if not win at all cost, he’s win at almost any cost.”
Those convictions for which Mr. Wray offered praise in 2004?
Mr. Weissmann ’s cases against Andersen and Merrill Lynch lay in shambles just a few years later.
The Supreme Court, in a 9-0 vote in 2005, overturned the Andersen conviction. A year later, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals erased all the fraud convictions against four Merrill Lynch managers. The jury had acquitted another defendant.
“People went off to prison for a completely phantom of a case,” said Mr. Kirkendall .
Almost forgot Judge Amy Berman Jackson is the judge who put Manafort in jail and was the same judge who tossed out a lawsuit against Hillary Clinton.
A federal judge in Washington D.C. on Friday tossed out a lawsuit against Hillary Clinton that alleged negligence in her email security was the cause of two Americans' deaths in the 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya.
U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson, appointed by former President Obama in 2010, concluded that Clinton used her email in the course of her official duties and dismissed the wrongful death portion of the suit on technical grounds, according to a report by Politico.
She should have been charged for a felony of using a private server, destroying hard drives, phone and deleting emails. This is beyond ludicrous, except it's no laughing matter to see third world tactics being used to get convictions for non existent crimes. Manafort may be guilty of lying and money laundering, but his charges have nothing to do with the Trump campaign. But considering how crooked Mueller and his band of dogs are, I wouldn't be surprised what they will come up with at this point.
Sounds like the plaintiffs are total nut jobs and you're more than a little gullible. As the judge noted:
Of course, what would you expect her to say? She's an Obama appointee and Obama appointees are not judges, they're political hacks. They even said they would hold up the ban on the countries if Hillary had ordered it. These countries contained training for Islamic Jihadists, you know, Obama's buddies. I'm sure there would not have been a problem if Obama had ordered it. The courts are changing and judges who follow the Constitution are being appointed.
List of federal judges appointed by Donald Trump
This is a comprehensive list of all Article III and Article IV United States federal judges appointed by Donald Trump during his presidency , as well as a partial list of Article I federal judicial appointments, excluding appointments to the District of Columbia judiciary. [1]
As of June 11, 2018, the United States Senate has confirmed 42 Article III judges nominated by President Trump , including 1 Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States , 21 judges for the United States Courts of Appeals , 20 judges for the United States District Courts , and 0 judges for the United States Court of International Trade . [2] There are currently 83 nominations to Article III courts awaiting Senate action, including 11 for the Courts of Appeals and 72 for the District Courts. [3] There are currently no vacancies on the Supreme Court, 14 vacancies on the U.S. Courts of Appeals, 124 vacancies on the U.S. District Courts, 2 vacancies on the U.S. Court of International Trade, [3] and 31 announced federal judicial vacancies that will occur before the end of Trump's first term (8 for the Courts of Appeals and 23 for District Courts). [4] Trump has not made any recess appointments to the federal courts.
In terms of Article I courts, as of May 7, 2018, the Senate has confirmed 5 judges nominated by Trump, 4 for the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims and 1 for the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces . There are currently 8 nominations to Article I courts awaiting Senate action, including 3 for the United States Court of Federal Claims and 5 for the United States Tax Court . Trump has not yet nominated anyone for appointment to the United States Court of Military Commission Review . Trump designated Susan G. Braden as chief judge of the Court of Federal Claims .
In terms of Article IV territorial courts , Trump has not made any appointments or elevated any judges to the position of chief judge.
The difference is the Republicans went along with Obama for the most part until toward the end, but don't worry, we'll have all those vacancies filled with Constitutional Judges instead of Democrat Political Hacks.
I was wondering how long it would take for the conversation to deflect to Hillary and Obama. It appears that this seed was up for about 13 hours before they were mentioned. That might be a new NT record!
I know you don't want to talk about Obama and neither does the MSM, but Obama is alive and well, continuing his community organizing. If he was like Bush, who the Democrats, like the ones on here, talked about Bush for several years after he left office and he wasn't running around the country criticizing Obama, nor did he lead an organization of community organizers when he left office, but that is not the case with Obama.
Remember that Facebook database, the one Maxine Waters spoke about saying it was unlike anyone has seen before? The MSM doesn't want to talk about Obama or give any information about Obama's activities any more than they have to, but Obama put himself where it is perfectly correct to talk about the community organizer who still wants to fundamentally transform this country. And like many other community organizers, he'll be living with the elites while his activists get their orders from the home office.
How Obama is scheming to sabotage Trump’s presidency
On the up side of things, manafort gets his $1 million back...
That buys a lot of tobacco and top ramen in the commissary.
Silly Paul. He should've been a Democrat like the Podestas and he would've gotten off scot-free.
Since Manafort is a pal of Putin, Trump will likely pardon Manafot of anything he gets charged with so that his Butt Buddy Putin dos not get pissed off.
Why does the left always feel comfortable using gay slurs like "butt buddy" and "cock holster"?
And your proof of that is ???????
Is that a serious question?
Easy, because Republicans are getting caught on a regular basis for being that and more...pedophile and diaper fetish are other accurate terms
Because those 'adjectives--or in certain contexts adverbs'--are well known GOP terms.
It is way past time the right wing conservatives prove their thoughts on their own.
Example; And your proof would be what---------that it isn't?
Add peeping tom to the list.
If he does that then the consequence is that Manafort has no 5th Amendment right not to testify.....
That sounds like the best defence option he probably has if he has anything on trump.
President trump does not strike me as a person you want pissed off at you and for a few more years at least trump has much power in this country to either help or destroy people.
Self preservation is one hell of a motavator. I'd keep my mouth shut and take my chances with the one who actually has the most power behind them.
I don't use that term. And it is not only the left that uses such terms either.
What proof? Proof of my opinion? I don't see the majority of right wingers here providing any proof of any of the allegations they make here against the left or Obama or Hillary, most of which is nothing but lies and opinions thrown around as truth. So why don't you ever ask any of them for their proof? So is it OK by you for right wingers to do that kind of crap?
And for the record....I'm not left OR right. I don't owe my loyalty to any political group. But, that does not mean I can't think for myself.
Once he's received a pardon on any given matter then he has no 5th Amendment defense against testifying on that matter, so he'd still go to jail if he refuses to testify (for example) about his and Trump's collusion with Russia to rig the election. But it'll be entertaining to see Trump continue to obstruct justice by pardoning his co-conspirators.
I think the problem here is that Trump is in wayyyy over his head and has no idea what he is doing. He wants to dictate the government and the justice system as if he was still playing the head of his old reality show "The Apprentice", but, he has no clue as to he ramifications that his actions can and will have on our country. And he refuses to listen to anyone who does know who is trying to help him learn the ins and outs of what his limitations are as President. To Trump, there are no limitations, he thinks he can do as he damn well pleases and to hell with the consequences, let someone else take the blame for those.
The risk there is for his co-conspirator who wields the power of the pardon.
I love that part, plus the fact that his sociopathy causes him to think that everything is all about him.....like when he claimed the other day that the recent IG report on the Clinton investigation "exonerates him" despite the fact that he wasn't the topic.
That means he's very likely to act irrationally defensive even when it's unwise to do so.
Trump is a paper tiger who's getting his ass whipped by a porn star. The only people who need to fear him are the cowards and sycophants in the GOP.
Indeed. And since he thinks that everything is all about him, his ego and self adoration lets him put his big foot in his big mouth wayyy too many times, then he tries to blame it on someone else when the blow back gets too too much for him to handle. Trump likes to surround himself with nothing but azz kissers who endlessly stroke is ego and sense of self importance, and are also clueless about anything pertaining to their own position, much less the Presidency.
So....now that Trump has alienated all our allies, he will begin to alienate our enemies, starting with China it seems with the tariffs he has thrown at them, as he now has NK as his Butt Buddy so do doesn't need China anymore. Too bad he is too stupid to realize that NK is nothing without China, and they will not be that willing to crawl into bed with him as much as Trump wants to think.
The only reason that Kim met with Trump to try to cool the threat of war, is that China does not want to go to war with the US over the egotistical idiot in NK. But, Trump wants to think he is the one that tamed NK.
Analyst View: China's Xi promises to open economy, lower tariffs
Reuters Staff
SYDNEY/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday promised to open the country’s economy further and lower import tariffs on products including cars, in a speech that struck a conciliatory tone on the rising trade tensions between China and the United States.
Xi also said China would raise the foreign ownership limit in the automobile sector as soon as possible and push previously announced measures to open the financial sector.
“This year, we will considerably reduce auto import tariffs, and at the same time reduce import tariffs on some other products,” Xi said at the Chinese Boao Forum for Asia in Hainan province.
The comments sent U.S. stock futures, the dollar and Asian shares higher.
Continue Reading.....
That's great. They only went up 2000 points over the last two years Obama was in office. It has gone up 7000 points so far under Trump.
Manafort is in a particularly unusual and awkward situation. I sincerely doubt that his ( Manafort's ) most serious problems are not with any information he may have or know concerning the president, although that could be significant and possibly damaging.
Manafort has been a 'player' in the world of the Russian Oligarchs. He knows too much. He is also in serious debt to at least one of them. Manafort is old, ( 70 ) but he does have family and the Russian Crime Syndicates know everything. I sincerely believe that Manafort can not reveal anything to anybody. On an aside, I suspect Trump knows this and is counting on it.
Just a matter of time before the Russians start solving their problems here.
Thank you for saying what I did not.
The Russian oligarchy is real and it is serious and it is dangerous. It is a shame that somehow they've been let into our doors.
Indeed. And Trump will throw the doors wide open and give them a free pass to anywhere in the US they wish to go, and do whatever they want to do. But, the Mexican small children on our borders must be removed from their parents and tossed in cages as they are a threat to our country. /s
Trump's Murica is going to burn. I just have a feeling.
Too bad Reagan, Goldwater and Eisenhower aren't alive to see a Republican oligarch colluding with Russian oligarchs and former KGB agents to undermine US democracy.
In a certain sense it was inevitable.
Its a total "Witch-hunt"!
So far the Mueller Investigation hasn't produced any results-- none!