His pleading notes that the Special Counsel statute, which empowered Ken Starr and Whitewater, expired in 1999. I still think he's grasping at straws.

That's the crux of the suit. Unlike the Independent Counsel Act (which expired in 1999), under which Ken Starr operated as a special prosecutor subject to the oversight of a panel of the DC Circuit (which could and did, on request, expand the scope of Starr's investigation), Mueller is operating under the terms of the Special Counsel Act which, Manafort alleges, requires the scope of the special counsel investigation to be specifically described in the authorizing order and only can be expanded after consultation with the Attorney General (or in this instance Rosenstein). The claim is that the original order from Rosenstein circumvented the process spelled out in the statute and implementing rules by preemptively giving Mueller broad authority beyond the specifically described investigatory scope without requiring Mueller to present a case-by-case argument to Rosenstein for expanded authority.

COME ON DOWN. Manafort can't possibly think it's going to be this easy to get out of the crap hole he's in.

caught. Good luck criminal boy. Might have to be held at the big house now. For our safety.

Happy New Year.

to keep from falling into financial and social death. The slowly falling dust and rock is making him nervous and bruising his face.

Oliver North, member of the National Security Council convicted of accepting an illegal gratuity, obstruction of a congressional inquiry, and destruction of documents, but the ruling was overturned since he had been granted immunity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–Contra_affair

Sure, nothing like opening yourself up to depositions and interrogatories and document production in a civil case to get your ass in a sling in any criminal matters that arise or have already arisen.