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Old 08-03-2018, 09:07 PM
 
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I think Team Swamp is trying to stall and keep the Russia hoax alive until the mid term elections.
You do realize this trial has nothing to do with Trump or Russia
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Old 08-03-2018, 09:21 PM
 
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Just read several different news accounts about trial events today. Testimony and evidence was presented about fake loans, undisclosed foreign accounts, and various illegal tax dodges.

No mention of Judge Ellis being disgusted.

Earlier in the week when the prosecutors were presenting evidence that Manafort was paying for expensive items with money drawn on foreign accounts (later revealed to be hidden from tax accountants), Judge Ellis told them to hurry it along was it not illegal to buy expensive things.

Perhaps Mad Jasper and BB are thinking of that.

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Old 08-03-2018, 09:31 PM
 
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Just read several different news accounts about trial events today. Testimony and evidence was presented about fake loans, undisclosed foreign accounts, and various illegal tax dodges.

No mention of Judge Ellis being disgusted.

Earlier in the week when the prosecutors were presenting evidence that Manafort was paying for expensive items with money drawn on foreign accounts (later revealed to be hidden from tax accountants), Judge Ellis told them to hurry it along was it wa not illegal to buy expensive things.

Perhaps Mad Jasper and BB are thinking of that.

Exactly how I understand it as well.
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Old 08-03-2018, 09:48 PM
 
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You do realize this trial has nothing to do with Trump or Russia
https://twitter.com/JackiSchechner/s...32347280199680

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Old 08-03-2018, 10:00 PM
 
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Just read several different news accounts about trial events today. Testimony and evidence was presented about fake loans, undisclosed foreign accounts, and various illegal tax dodges.

No mention of Judge Ellis being disgusted.

Earlier in the week when the prosecutors were presenting evidence that Manafort was paying for expensive items with money drawn on foreign accounts (later revealed to be hidden from tax accountants), Judge Ellis told them to hurry it along was it not illegal to buy expensive things.

Perhaps Mad Jasper and BB are thinking of that.
Ultimately, when the “not guilty” verdict rolls in, BB and Mad Jasper will be vindicated and we will have to admit that they were right on the money. I will admit that I was wrong, recognize Manafort’s innocence of these charges, and give credit to those posters in the know.

Of course, if the “guilty” verdict comes in, I assume the converse will be true...
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Old 08-04-2018, 04:34 AM
 
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We know Rod Rosenstein of the FBI investigated Manafort back in 2014 & cleared him of any wrongdoing on these same charges.

Manafort intends to call RR as his first witness. How will RR explain diving into his finances, banking, lobbying, ties to Ukraine & finding nothing to prosecute him on?

The Defense, also alleges that Manafort told the FBI & DOJ attorneys all about his Cyprus bank accounts, his finances, etc.

IF, and it's just an assertion at this point, but IF it's proven, then the FBI didn't charge him with tax evasion, bank fraud or FARA violations. They didn't even tell him to file with FARA and they trusted him enough to use him as an undercover informant.

"We know Rod Rosenstein of the FBI investigated Manafort back in 2014 & cleared him of any wrongdoing on these same charges. "


If he was being charged with the SAME charges, wouldn't that be double jeopardy?
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Old 08-04-2018, 05:57 AM
 
Location: the very edge of the continent
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Difficult to see how he is going to get out of that.
Tax cheat Timmy Geithner (Obama's Treasury Secretary) got out of doing the exact same thing AND kept his job as Treasury Secretary.
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Old 08-04-2018, 06:03 AM
 
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Whatabout Obama is not going to work.

Sorry.

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Old 08-04-2018, 06:08 AM
 
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Whatabout Obama is not going to work.

Sorry.

I posted about tax cheat Timmy Geithner, the man who was STILL Treasury Secretary AFTER it was disclosed that he did the exact same thing Manafort did. If Timmy wasn't prosecuted and punished, why is Manafort being prosecuted?
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Old 08-04-2018, 07:01 AM
 
Location: alexandria, VA
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I posted about tax cheat Timmy Geithner, the man who was STILL Treasury Secretary AFTER it was disclosed that he did the exact same thing Manafort did. If Timmy wasn't prosecuted and punished, why is Manafort being prosecuted?
Was Geithner using offshore banks, like the one in Cyprus, to stash his loot to avoid paying taxes? Did he lie on his tax forms about receiving income for outside the U.S.?
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