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Mueller Just Guaranteed He Can Issue a Public Report
November 26, 2018/178 Comments/in 2016 Presidential Election, Mueller Probe /by emptywheel

Back when Paul Manafort first entered a plea agreement, I argued the effects of it could not be pardoned away.

Here’s why this deal is pardon proof:

1. Mueller spent the hour and a half delay in arraignment doing … something. It’s possible Manafort even presented the key parts of testimony Mueller needs from him to the grand jury this morning.
2. The forfeiture in this plea is both criminal and civil, meaning DOJ will be able to get Manafort’s $46 million even with a pardon.
3. Some of the dismissed charges are financial ones that can be charged in various states.

Since that time, Mueller has been busy finishing up the Roger Stone indictment, Trump has finally finished his open book test, and any owners of the property Manafort had to forfeit under the plea deal had their 30-day window to challenge the forfeiture (only the bank owning the loan on his Trump Tower condo is known to have contested the forfeiture, which means the government may already be irretrievably seizing $43 million of Manafort’s property).

Which brings us to the status report that Mueller’s team delayed long enough to get that open book test.

Paulie can’t help himself. According to Mueller’s team, he has kept lying and lying since entering the cooperation agreement.

After signing the plea agreement, Manafort committed federal crimes by lying to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Special Counsel’s Office on a variety of subject matters, which constitute breaches of the agreement. The government will file a detailed sentencing submission to the Probation Department and the Court in advance of sentencing that sets forth the nature of the defendant’s crimes and lies, including those after signing the plea agreement herein.


As the defendant has breached the plea agreement, there is no reason to delay his sentencing herein.​

As I noted back in September, the standard the government has to prove to claim Manafort has breached his agreement is just “good faith,” as compared to preponderance of the evidence with Rick Gates.

With Gates, the standard the government has to prove to argue he has breached his agreement is preponderance of the evidence or, in case of committing a crime, probable cause. With Manafort, the government only has to prove “good faith.”​

Now, it is true that Trump can pardon Manafort (though that probably won’t happen right away). That’s the only sane explanation for Manafort doing what he did, that he is still certain he’ll be pardoned. But many of these charges can still be charged in state court.

Just about the only explanation for Manafort’s actions are that — as I suggested — Trump was happy to have Manafort serve as a mole in Mueller’s investigation.


But Mueller’s team appears to have no doubt that Manafort was lying to them. That means they didn’t really need his testimony, at all. It also means they had no need to keep secrets — they could keep giving Manafort the impression that he was pulling a fast one over the prosecutors, all while reporting misleading information to Trump that he could use to fill out his open book test. Which increases the likelihood that Trump just submitted sworn answers to those questions full of lies.


And that “detailed sentencing submission … sett[ing] forth the nature of the defendant’s crimes and lies” that Mueller mentions in the report?


There’s your Mueller report, which will be provided in a form that Matt Whitaker won’t be able to suppress. (Reminder: Mueller included 38 pages of evidence along with Manafort’s plea agreement, which I argued showed how what Manafort and Trump did to Hillary was the same thing that Manafort had done to Yulia Tymoshenko.)

Bruh, Mueller is a fukking wizard

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

Sounds like a lot of treason

 

[nyknick]

All these twitter links are broken for me. I'm on chrome and the page is loading slow. I'm going to try IE even though I hate it.

I wish my Twitter links were broken so I would never have to see another John Schindler/Rick Wilson tweet




Try Opera instead of IE. Their pop-up/picture in picture youtube on desktop version is

 

[choc_cardigan]

Because that makes too much sense. Especially since he does nothing but repost what others post along with tangents that may or may not ever be relevant.

I think the kids call that trolling. Also I think when the dam breaks we will also find out whatever bullshyt is on with that negro nap account

 

[boxfullofjoel]

Marcy Wheeler: “Trump was happy to have Manafort serve as a mole...

This article is in line with the theory that Mueller knew (or wanted )Manafort was feeding info to agent orange. Notice the difference in the plea deals mentionned.

" First, as she previously noted, Manafort's plea agreement did not include a provision to limit him from speaking with outside parties about the investigations, even though Rick Gates, Manafort's deputy who also pleaded guilty in the probe, was forced to agree to such a provision. For some reason, Mueller wasn't worried about Manafort's lawyers communicating with Trump — which he has been doing."

"At the same time, while Manafort's agreement allowed him to speak to outside parties about the probe, it set a relatively low bar for the special counsel to demonstrate that the former campaign chair had broken the agreement. While Gates' agreement required that prosecutors show that the preponderance of evidence suggests that he lied in order to overturn the deal, Manafort's agreement only requires that prosecutors show that he has violated the agreement by "good faith," a lower standard"

#gotdamnyamanMueller

 

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Zoe Tillman
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NEW: Statement from Paul Manafort about today's Guardian story, via a spokesman: "This story is totally false and deliberately libelous. I have never met Julian Assange or anyone connected to him."
3:21 PM - Nov 27, 2018

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

The end is near.

 

[Leasy]

Assangs will commit sucide before being bought to America or any jurisdiction for charges

 

[AZBeauty]

I wish my Twitter links were broken so I would never have to see another John Schindler/Rick Wilson tweet




Try Opera instead of IE. Their pop-up/picture in picture youtube on desktop version is

I'm at work so I cant download anything but the links arent working at all. I can go directly to twitter but for some reason they wont load for me. I dont mind Rick Wilson but Mensch and Schindler get automatic scroll pass action. Actually, I scroll pass most of what he posts because its normally been posted already.

 

[fact]

Assangs will commit sucide before being bought to America or any jurisdiction for charges

Or he will fold like a lawn chair upon the first questioning, especially if the questioning is sharp. If by chance Mueller does the questioning, which I can’t see why he wouldn’t, it’s a wrap. Everybody can agree, whether you think Julian is a hero, or a scumbag, we ALL know he is a coward

 

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[ExodusNirvana]

The end is near.

We been good this year too...biggest voter turnout in decades

Mueller Claus about to have us feasting for the holidays

Nothing Nog

Nothing Goose

Nothingbread Houses



Meanwhile all the naughty boys and girls will receive indictments in their stockings