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Prosecutor says Manafort is cooperating with special counsel investigation !!! (Original Post) MelissaB Sep 2018 OP
WOOOOOHOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! manor321 Sep 2018 #1
From another reporter: MelissaB Sep 2018 #2
Yes! Yes! Yes! lagomorph777 Sep 2018 #3
Is that similar to... Delmette2.0 Sep 2018 #23
"Successful cooperation" bearsfootball516 Sep 2018 #26
Manefort was probably the link between the Russians and Trump. RDANGELO Sep 2018 #4
Prosecutors say Paul Manafort's plea deal includes 17 page cooperation agreement. DesertRat Sep 2018 #5
Great news! Trump is toast!! meow2u3 Sep 2018 #6
Yep grantcart Sep 2018 #7
Not getting too excited...plea agreement cooperation may just relate to financial cooperation Fred Sanders Sep 2018 #8
yes, cooperation may not have anything to do with tRump elmac Sep 2018 #29
MSNBC is reporting Manafort is in a "cooperation agreement" eleny Sep 2018 #9
Implications for Pence, too, methinks. MANative Sep 2018 #10
Pence enid602 Sep 2018 #47
All republican traitors must be brought to justice Achilleaze Sep 2018 #11
Fartman to the rescue! Blue Owl Sep 2018 #12
...and Spicy just COULD NOT BE MORE DELIGHTED!!! Leghorn21 Sep 2018 #13
Number 3...just wow... Volaris Sep 2018 #32
A gift-wrapped turd for Dumpty! Hooray! Ponietz Sep 2018 #14
THAT is gonna leave a mark! NT Adrahil Sep 2018 #15
Craig Unger ("House of Trump, House of Putin"): Leghorn21 Sep 2018 #16
Thanks for posting this! MelissaB Sep 2018 #18
Oh ya and that... Volaris Sep 2018 #33
It's Friday! sheshe2 Sep 2018 #17
If this is a complete cooperation, with all the beans spilled, Hortensis Sep 2018 #19
Goody, goody. I found this on Amazon if someone wants to ship it to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue: TexasTowelie Sep 2018 #27
:) ! Hortensis Sep 2018 #38
You forgot the spin cycle, TexasTowelie Sep 2018 #42
I figure a lot of washing is called for. Hortensis Sep 2018 #43
Oh I bet good money he will try it anyway (offer a pardon) Volaris Sep 2018 #35
Well, Trump's famously vindictive and unforgiving, Hortensis Sep 2018 #39
He wouldn't be getting a deal unless he hands them someone else higher on the food chain.... sunonmars Sep 2018 #20
***Manafort is cooperating with special counsel investigation*** workinclasszero Sep 2018 #21
I think Trump has stinky pants at the moment Pepsidog Sep 2018 #22
Manafort knows he's got skeletons deep in the closet Saviolo Sep 2018 #24
I wanted to comment on this thread but colorado_ufo Sep 2018 #25
Save me some Blue_playwright Sep 2018 #31
You have enough butter? nt Blue_true Sep 2018 #37
Fortunately, my neighbor has cows! colorado_ufo Sep 2018 #45
I don't know. Churning butter is work. I tried it as a boy. nt Blue_true Sep 2018 #48
It might not be just the Trump family that's going down Dopers_Greed Sep 2018 #28
Muellers team doesn't leak jack, does it? lol Roland99 Sep 2018 #30
Look like Mueller has Paulie by the balls. Blue_true Sep 2018 #34
New Filing in Manafort Case canetoad Sep 2018 #36
Thanks MelissaB. Good work. You preempted MSNBC. triron Sep 2018 #40
Boom goes the dynamite! nt Cognitive_Resonance Sep 2018 #41
Trumpies will say "this has nothing to do with Trump" until he's indicted Mr. Ected Sep 2018 #44
Here comes Hurricane Robert! edbermac Sep 2018 #46

MelissaB

(16,420 posts)
2. From another reporter:
Fri Sep 14, 2018, 11:28 AM
Sep 2018

HUGE: Reading from what he calls the "cooperation agreement," prosecutor Weissman mentions to Judge Jackson that a portion of the plea agreement mentions "the completion of [Manafort's] successful cooperation."


bearsfootball516

(6,377 posts)
26. "Successful cooperation"
Fri Sep 14, 2018, 12:44 PM
Sep 2018

Does that mean that if Mueller doesn't think Manafort has provided enough, he can nullify the plea agreement until he's given enough that Mueller deems it "successful cooperation"?

RDANGELO

(3,433 posts)
4. Manefort was probably the link between the Russians and Trump.
Fri Sep 14, 2018, 11:32 AM
Sep 2018

His sidekick Gates never left the campaign, so you most likely have to people to substantiate that. Trump is toast!

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
8. Not getting too excited...plea agreement cooperation may just relate to financial cooperation
Fri Sep 14, 2018, 11:35 AM
Sep 2018

regarding forfeiture of his tangled web of shell companies.

Or, getting excited, spilling the beans on what happened during his 4 month tenure as the leader of Shitler's campaign...a vicious campaign photocopied from Ukraine for Shitler to use here on another woman candidate.

 

elmac

(4,642 posts)
29. yes, cooperation may not have anything to do with tRump
Fri Sep 14, 2018, 12:55 PM
Sep 2018

but it may connect more dots to prove charges against the tRump crime family.

eleny

(46,166 posts)
9. MSNBC is reporting Manafort is in a "cooperation agreement"
Fri Sep 14, 2018, 11:35 AM
Sep 2018

Ken Dilanian saying that "coop agreement" language means he's cooperating with Mueller. He's not just admitting guilt and taking his lumps.

Glenn Kirschner, former federal prosecuter, is saying that this spells trouble for Trump. Perhaps more info about the Trump Tower meeting. And that we'll see more from Rudy G.

Leghorn21

(13,524 posts)
13. ...and Spicy just COULD NOT BE MORE DELIGHTED!!!
Fri Sep 14, 2018, 11:42 AM
Sep 2018
HAPPY FRIDAY AMERICA
BOOM...Manafort did in fact PROFFER to Special
Counsel Mueller’s Office

Manafort IS A COOPERATING WITNESS



1) Manafort Forfeiture is >$46M essentially paying for Special Counsel Mueller’s Office

2) Manafort proffering. YUGE

3) Manafort waives any right to monetize any book, movie etc regarding this matter.@realDonaldTrump @POTUS @DonaldJTrumpJr @jaredkushner enjoy jail traitors








Volaris

(10,272 posts)
32. Number 3...just wow...
Fri Sep 14, 2018, 01:10 PM
Sep 2018

Means Mueller isn't GONNA let TREASON be profitable.

That man ain't fuckin around. Republicans who SOLD their nation out for rubles had better be rightly terrified of this Real Man and his convictions (yes, that's a double-entandra(sp)).

Leghorn21

(13,524 posts)
16. Craig Unger ("House of Trump, House of Putin"):
Fri Sep 14, 2018, 12:01 PM
Sep 2018
In charging doc, note #Manafort's use of #Lucicle as shell company
for laundering $. Lucicle was in name of #IvanFursin, a key operative
for Semion #Mogilevich who is the brains behind the RU Mafia, and
whose operatives worked w Trump for more than 30 yrs.





Volaris

(10,272 posts)
33. Oh ya and that...
Fri Sep 14, 2018, 01:13 PM
Sep 2018

When Mueller ls DONE with this crew of traitorous mutineers, it's isn't JUST America's dirty pols that are gonna go down...This is predicted to utterly destroy the Russian mafia in the United States for at least 25 years...
Wonder what the Dons in New York will do with that power vacuum heh?

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
19. If this is a complete cooperation, with all the beans spilled,
Fri Sep 14, 2018, 12:09 PM
Sep 2018

that's the end of Trump's hope to use his pardon power to obstruct this source of evidence. And of course, Trump will take this as a personal betrayal.

Woodward's book says Trump's worst day ever was when Mueller was named as special investigator. "President Trump erupted into uncontrollable anger, visibly agitated to a degree that no one in his inner circle had witnessed before." And of course they'd seen a LOT of raging.

This may be another especially agitating development. Hope so.

Volaris

(10,272 posts)
35. Oh I bet good money he will try it anyway (offer a pardon)
Fri Sep 14, 2018, 01:18 PM
Sep 2018

If manafort rejects that offer, is it still obstruction for him just to OFFER it?

Let's hope so, cause I damnwell bet he's arrogant enough to TRY lol.

'Donald Trump will die in prison.'

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
39. Well, Trump's famously vindictive and unforgiving,
Fri Sep 14, 2018, 01:44 PM
Sep 2018

prides himself on it, his version of a first principle.

He is delusional enough to perhaps have trouble understanding it's now too late for him, but if so that'll be explained repeatedly.

I think we can also pretty safely assume there won't be any pardon for old times' sake.

Saviolo

(3,282 posts)
24. Manafort knows he's got skeletons deep in the closet
Fri Sep 14, 2018, 12:30 PM
Sep 2018

And I will not stop banging this particular drum, because I feel like it's about time one of these wealthy profiteers finally gets some comeuppance instead of just getting away with it.

Paul Manafort is a deeply shitty human being. No matter how much you hate Paul Manafort, you should hate him more, because he has profited off of war, political unrest, death, and destruction for decades. Shilling for Trump may have been the least objectionable thing he's done in his incredible history of absolute evil. Here's a great precis of why you don't hate Manafort nearly enough:

Podcast Part 1

Podcast Part 2

colorado_ufo

(5,737 posts)
25. I wanted to comment on this thread but
Fri Sep 14, 2018, 12:38 PM
Sep 2018

the freight truck with the popcorn just backed into my driveway. Got to run!

Dopers_Greed

(2,640 posts)
28. It might not be just the Trump family that's going down
Fri Sep 14, 2018, 12:53 PM
Sep 2018

Don't forget...

-Manafort handpicked Pence
-The Repug's platform was changed to be more Russia-friendly after he joined the campaign

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
34. Look like Mueller has Paulie by the balls.
Fri Sep 14, 2018, 01:15 PM
Sep 2018

Trump will come out with a tweet saying that Manafort just brought donuts and did nothing else for his campaign.

canetoad

(17,170 posts)
36. New Filing in Manafort Case
Fri Sep 14, 2018, 01:20 PM
Sep 2018

Case 1:17-cr-00201-ABJ Document 419 Filed 09/14/18 Page 1 of 38

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
v.
PAUL J. MANAFORT, JR.,
Defendant.

*******
CRIMINAL NO. 17-201-1 (ABJ)(S-5)
Violations: 18 U.S.C. § 371
SUPERSEDING CRIMINAL INFORMATION
The Special Counsel informs the Court:

1. PAUL J. MANAFORT, JR. (MANAFORT) served for years as a political consultant and
lobbyist. Between at least 2006 and 2015, MANAFORT conspired with Richard W. Gates (Gates),
Konstantin Kilimnik (Kilimnik), and others to act, and acted, as unregistered agents of a foreign
government and political party. Specifically, MANAFORT conspired to act and acted as an agent
of the Government of Ukraine, the Party of Regions (a Ukrainian political party whose leader
Victor Yanukovych was President from 2010 to 2014), President Yanukovych, and the Opposition
Bloc (a successor to the Party of Regions that formed in 2014 when Yanukovych fled to Russia).
MANAFORT generated more than 60 million dollars in income as a result of his Ukraine work.
In order to hide Ukraine payments from United States authorities, from approximately 2006
through at least 2016, MANAFORT, with the assistance of Gates and Kilimnik, laundered the
money through scores of United States and foreign corporations, partnerships, and bank accounts.


Full document: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4883217-Information-Felony.html
PDF: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4883217/Information-Felony.pdf

Mr. Ected

(9,670 posts)
44. Trumpies will say "this has nothing to do with Trump" until he's indicted
Fri Sep 14, 2018, 02:13 PM
Sep 2018

And then they'll say "A President cannot be indicted".

Anything but take responsibility. We cohabit our country with some damned evil people.

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