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Prosecutors say they've found 'additional criminal conduct' by the former Trump campaign chairman.
By JOSH GERSTEIN 02/16/2018 08:44 PM EST
Special counsel Robert Muellers office has told a federal judge it has found evidence that Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman, committed bank fraud not addressed by the indictment last October in which he was charged with money laundering and failure to register as a foreign agent.
As legal wrangling continues over a $10 million bail package for Manafort, prosecutors this week accused him of submitting false information to a bank in connection with one of his mortgages.
The proposed package is deficient in the governments view, in light of additional criminal conduct that we have learned since the Courts initial bail determination, prosecutors wrote in a court filing submitted on Tuesday and made public in a redacted form on Friday evening. That criminal conduct includes a series of bank frauds and bank fraud conspiracies.
No criminal charges are known to have been filed over the alleged fraud, and Muellers office does not say in the filing whether it intends to bring any.
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https://www.politico.com/amp/story/2018/02/16/mueller-manafort-bank-fraud-accusations-416509?__twitter_impression=true
Fuckyeah
elleng
(131,077 posts)wherein he looks like what he is, CROOKED.
Blue Owl
(50,490 posts)Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)If the value is $1M, then he is short of the $10M. What options would Mueller have? Jail, for one. Would Manafort forfeit the rest of his bail or just go to jail? He was in the process of negotiating his home arrest...wanted to get out of the house. Sounds like he may just do that. Go to jail until his trial.
Should have been satisfied with house arrest and this probably wouldn't have come up. Mueller probably tried to put a lien on the house.